Payback time

Major analysis feature looks at the rush by European banks in the autumn of 2009 to pay back bail-out finance provided by European governments a year or so ago at the heght of the global economic crisis in order to achieve financial freedom.

ESO: Background information: ING to be broken up in wake of bail-out http://www.europeansources.info/record/ing-to-be-broken-up-in-wake-of-bail-out/

ESO: Background information: RBS and Lloyds bow to Brussels http://www.europeansources.info/record/rbs-and-lloyds-bow-to-brussels/

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