Monday, July 9, 2012

"the balkanisation of national financial markets threatens not only the European monetary union but the European integration project as a whole"

words of stiff if a bit panicky prudence by a gaggle of   teutonic euro econ-cons



read it all here :

http://www.voxeu.org/article/manifesto-banking-union-economists-germany-austria-and-switzerland

" A monetary union with free capital flows cannot work reasonably without a unified banking framework"




recommendations ?

"A European backbone " for a system that has decisively "decoupled"
crucial private MN-banks ( "relevant financial institutions")
from national  sovereigns

backbone ?

"In no way does this endorse a collectivisation of bank liabilities.
Rather it is essential
 to cede
 key powers of regulatory intervention in member countries
to
 a banking supervision authority at the European level

Only a European banking supervisory authority
with sweeping intervention powers
can break the linkage
between the financing of governments and of banks"