Financial Industry Slams Plan: German Government to Impose Higher Crisis Levy on Banks
8:08am GMT, Thursday, 13 January 2011
Banks were partly to blame for the financial crisis of 2008 — and now they’re being asked to pay for it. The German government wants to extract far higher payments from banks than had been envisaged so far, according to a report in Financial Times Deutschland newspaper.
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