The experts of the member states have returned to work, following the summer break, on the creation of a European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS), the third and final pillar of banking union in the eurozone. These discussions, based on a questionnaire by the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the EU, revealed Germany's hostility to the project and, more surprisingly, French ambitions to find a minimum-level compromise.
The Slovak Presidency planned to take stock of work to bring about...