[D66] Verhofstadt - Lessons still not learned from post Lehman bank crisis

[Henk Elegeert]

Democsss,

Het is maar de vraag of Verhofstadt zelf de 'lessons has learned'. Mij lijkt
het dat ie met een te simpel antwoord een probleem wenst op te lossen dat
veel dieper ligt, en waar men Verhofstadt maar niet over hoort, nl. hoe kwam
het tot de crisis, en hoe wordt die in de toekomst voorkomen ?!!

Hoe ook kwam nu (nog) Dexia alsnog in de problemen? En geldt dat straks ook
niet voor de hele EU? Waarom mis-/gebruikt Verhofstadt de EU-burger als
melkkoe, en dat voor problemen die hij maar niet wenst op te lossen?

Henk Elegeert

  [image: ALDE PRESS RELEASE]    *Distribution: immediate -
05/10/2011*    Verhofstadt:
Lessons still not learned from post Lehman bank crisis

After months of repeated alarms of another crisis affecting the European
financial sector, EU Ministers of Finance indicated yesterday in Luxembourg
that a new bank rescue plan was on the way through a national coordinated
recapitalisation.

*[image: VERHOFSTADT_90.jpg]Guy Verhofstadt*, ALDE group leader in the
European Parliament said: *"It seems that Member States just don't want to
learn the lessons of the past. A rescue plan based on simply coordinating
national measures will not work because it leaves distrust among banks which
do not know what measures have been taken in other Member States."*

According to Verhofstadt: *"A recapitalisation of banks is vital to prevent
any possible chain reaction triggered by the ongoing Greek crisis. But if
limited only to a coordination of national plans it risks being a repeat of
the short-lived bank rescues which followed the Lehman collapse in 2008 and
which did not lead to restoring confidence in the market and amongst the
banks themselves."*

*"What we need now is a common and transparent European recapitalisation
plan for banks that guarantees a level playing for everyone,"* he concluded.
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