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Monetary Union: Single Resolution Mechanism

Does the SRM mean the end of an era?

MADRID | By The Corner | The European Parliament is giving green light to the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) this week for ailing banks as well as the €55 bn fund to finance bankrupcies and restructurings. Amid claims that the Euro zone’s banking sector is now safer and better supervised, some international lawmakers point out that banks are still weakly capitalized. “Europe should be careful no to make promises that it won’t be able to hold afterwards,” they say.


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The EU, the troika inquiry and the big disconnect

ATHENS|By Nick Malkoutzis at The Agora|After almost four years of monumental decisions being taken behind closed doors, without consultation and outside the legal framework of the European Union, the European Parliament is conducting an investigation into how the eurozone bailouts have been constructed and implemented. This will include visits to the countries affected as well as hearings with people involved with Troika decisions.