Germany’s finance minister has warned that a single EU bailout agency and rescue fund for Europe’s ailing banks is legally untenable until the bloc’s governing treaties have been overhauled.
In today’s Financial Times Wolfgang Schäuble calls for a “two-step approach” that would leave bank rescues in the hands of “a network of” national authorities until treaty changes can take place.
Mr Schäuble’s declaration comes weeks before the European Commission is due to present its plan for a single bank resolution agency and rescue fund – touted as the second pillar in the eurozone’s much-vaunted “banking union” – throwing the proposal into doubt before it is unveiled.