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Bundesbank sinks deeper into debt saving Europe

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,

 

Germany’s Bundesbank has entirely exhausted its stock of private assets and run up a quarter of a trillion euros in liabilities propping up the eurozone system, testing the political limits of EMU solidarity in Germany.””

The operations are part of the European Central Bank’s ‘TARGET2′ network of automatic payments between the national central banks of the Euroland club. The Bundesbank has already provided €496bn (£413bn) to countries in trouble, chiefly [...]