<div><br></div><div>Democsss,</div><div><br></div><div>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 ?!!</div>
<div><br></div><div>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?</div>
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<p align="justify">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.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><img vspace="5" align="right" width="90" src="http://mailer.alde.eu/admin/temp/newsletters/650/VERHOFSTADT_90.jpg" hspace="5" alt="VERHOFSTADT_90.jpg" height="90" title="VERHOFSTADT_90.jpg">Guy Verhofstadt</strong>, ALDE group leader in the European Parliament
said: <em>"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."</em></p>
<p align="justify">According to Verhofstadt: <em>"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."</em></p>
<p align="justify"><em>"What we need now is a common and transparent
European recapitalisation plan for banks that guarantees a level playing
for everyone,"</em> he concluded.</p>
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