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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10674
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) eurozone

Berlin and Paris fine-tune their stance on banking union

Brussels, 24/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - Germany and France have sought to bring their positions closer on ways to bring about heightened political integration in order to resolve the sovereign debt crisis. Issues covered by them included banking union. France and Germany are “in favour of going further and faster on banking supervision with the ECB”, Hollande said on Thursday 23 August in Berlin.

End June, during the eurozone summit (see EUROPE 10645), the EU17 decided to set in place an...