Εντατικές προετοιμασίες για «κούρεμα» του χρέους.

Σύμφωνα με έκτακτη είδηση που δημοσιεύθηκε πριν λίγο στην ηλεκτρονική έκδοση των Financial Times, οι υπουργοί οικονομικών της ευρωπαϊκής ενώσεως ζήτησαν, να ελεγχθούν οι αντοχές των ευρωπαϊκών τραπεζών, εν όψει του ενδεχομένου-παραδοχής, μιας μεγάλης διαγραφής του ελληνικού χρέους.
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EU banks face new ‘Greek’ stress test

Financial Times

October 5, 2011

European Union finance ministers have asked the bloc’s leading bank regulator to test the strength of Europe’s banks on the assumption of a big
writedown on Greek sovereign debt.
The move, a tacit admission that the European Banking Authority’s two previous rounds of bank stress tests were not sufficiently robust, came as Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said she was prepared to recapitalise her country’s banks if necessary. She suggested she wanted to discuss joint EU-wide bank support efforts at an EU summit in two weeks.
“We’re under the pressure of time and I think we need to take a decision quickly,” Ms Merkel said after meetings with the European Commission in Brussels.
According to senior officials involved in the process, the EBA has been instructed to provide a country-by-country breakdown of how much new capital banks would need in the event that Greece’s bonds were written down.
The officials insisted the move was not an indication that EU leaders were preparing for a Greek default. Instead, they said it was a precautionary measure intended to inform rapidly-accelerating negotiations on EU-wide bank recapitalisations.