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The comments came a day after Merkel befuddled her neighbors by announcing a guarantee on 100% of all private deposits - the largest such guarantee in history, according to one leading banking expert. The fact that Ireland had previously issued an even more sweeping guarantee hardly shielded Germany from criticism: as...
German officials say the guarantee was necessary to shore up confidence, not least because Germans hold a higher proportion of their savings in banks than citizens in many industrialized nations - and they still harbor a deep collective memory of the perils of economic uncertainty from the interwar years of the...
Germany's action came just a day after Merkel had joined Sarkozy, Berlusconi and Brown in grumbling about a similar total savings guarantee announced last week by Ireland, which E.U. competition authorities had already pledged to challenge as a competition-distorting measure. But with Germany, Europe's largest economy, reversing...
That flurry of action only served to heighten the panic across Europe, along with concerns that the European finance and banking sector may be as imperiled as that of the U.S., despite repeated assurances to the contrary from E.U. leaders. Indeed, the moves to guarantee private savings accounts seemed to...
That narrow scope for united action was duly noted during Saturday's minisummit in Paris. "Each government will operate with its own methods and means but in a coordinated manner," Sarkozy said of European reaction to the crisis. In saying that, he clearly didn't suspect that Merkel would issue...