Brussels, 21/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission's 2012 State Aid Scoreboard, published on Friday 21 December, reveals that the volume of national support to the financial sector actually taken by banks between October 2008 and 31 December 2011 amounted to around €1.6 trillion (13 % of EU GDP). The bulk (67%) came in the form of state guarantees on banks' wholesale funding. Support to the real economy on the basis of temporary crisis rules dropped to €4.8 billion in 2011, a...