Better than a bank run
For nine years, the German government in particular, spurred on by the Sparkassen and Volksbanken, blocked any movement in the EU legislative process for a European Deposit Insurance Scheme, and diplomats from other countries mocked its stubbornness in resisting any form of EU savings protection.
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