ECB saves the Italian krisbank

2014 was the European central bank a more supervisory role of the EU banking system. This is the first time that the ECB makes a direct intervention in a bank.

A long series of Italian banks have had bad loans. New issues that have not gone well. The interest on the huge national debt has exacerbated the matter. Already on 2 January, when Cariges board of directors resigned was stopped trading in shares on the milan stock exchange.

where a million italians had account. In line with the gains turned into losses, more and more clients left the bank. At a control of the ECB it turned out to Carige only in the third quarter of last year went with a loss of 2.5 billion.

at the same time, it is a bit embarrassing for the head of the ECB – Italian Mario Draghi, whose mandate now expires in 2019, after eight years – to the first bailout that is done at the EU level is an Italian bank.

The policy encouraged has gone high about the decision that the Italian state is now going in as a financial guarantor for 30 billion, of which 13 billion immediately goes to a fund for a new issue of bonds.

Femstjärnorna has been deep critical.

" Not a euro more to Italy's banks, said the party leader Luigi di Maio the other day.

But that was not the case. Very much depending on the government's influential leader, Matteo Salvini, on behalf of the extremist party Lega changed his mind and now supports the bailout.

through is an almost exact copy of the economic assistance that the country's former prime minister Paolo Gentiloni hammer through. Then came to the banks of the Veneto in the North and the historical bank Monte dei Paschi from the 1400 century in the tuscan Siena.

Then was subjected to the then ruling party, the Democrats (Pd) for an extreme criticism of Lega and Femstjärnorna. Now do the right wing on exactly the same thing.

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