Brussels, 19/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - The President-in-exercise of the Ecofin Council, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, is in favour of limiting the exposure of European banks to the public debt of the member states in which they are established.
“We need a more realistic regulatory treatment of the risks of the government bonds that banks hold. The crisis has clearly shown that such exposures are not risk-free”, the Dutch finance minister said in an article published in the Wall Street Journal,...