At the initiative of their German counterpart, Lars Klingbeil, the finance ministers of the six largest economies in the European Union - Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands - discussed how to mobilise private savings to finance productive investment in the EU on Monday 16 February, on the sidelines of the Eurogroup meeting.
Mr Klingbeil said that his initiative was intended to inject a new “tempo” into work on the integration of European capital markets, with the...