A great part of the European project is tainted with the fact that the Dutch,
Belgians Luxembourgers do not like the Germans, the French do not like the
Brits, nobody likes the Spanish etc.and so it goes on all over Europe. Suppose
the big plan is to merge all the debt into one big pile and as one the then
union explodes dissolving all monetary ties as no one will be able to untangle
the debt pile. The result is a complete mess almost parity with one big nuclear
bomb over the entire EU. Except the working man and woman wake up not to
radiation sickness but to an empty bank account and little or no coherent
government structure or judiciary to collect fresh debts such as utilities, etc.
Begin day one...Germany is set on a collision course with Brussels' visions for
deeper eurozone integration, by setting out its objections to greater financial
risk-sharing in the single currency. Berlin is determined to break the toxic
link between distressed banks and indebted governments, and will insist on new
"bail-in" procedures to impose losses on private sector creditors in the event
of another financial crisis. The eurozone has been thrown into turmoil since
2009, after the banking systems of Ireland, Spain, and Greece were rescued by
taxpayer money, loading debt on to government balance sheets. As Europe's
largest creditor nation, Germany wants senior bank bondholders and private
sector depositors to take the hit when banking or government solvency is
threatened. The red lines have been laid out in a Germany finance ministry
"non-paper" seen by the Financial Times. It will be presented by Wolfang
Schaeuble at an informal gathering of European finance ministers in Luxembourg
today. "The restructuring of banks without taxpayers’ money will function only
if sufficient resources are available for a bail-in and if member states ensure
that the bail-in is legally enforceable," said the paper.
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