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EU must take final steps toward banking union: German finance minister

Published 09/18/2018, 10:58 AM
Updated 09/18/2018, 11:00 AM
© Reuters. Lower house of parliament Bundestag 2019 budget debate in Berlin

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that the European Union needed to take the final steps toward creating a banking union so that large European banks could develop.

"For me it's also important that we try, especially now that it's 10 years after Lehman Brothers and the related global financial crisis, that we take the final steps to create a banking union, a fiscal union so that large European banks can emerge, for example," Scholz said.

He added that those banks would be able to accompany large European companies, and a European capital market would be able to develop.

Scholz did not name any specific banks.

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