At a meeting of EU finance ministers, the Chancellor will give British backing to a new principle that taxpayers should no longer have to pick up the bill for insolvent banks, meaning that debts must be written off, replacing bail-outs with “bail-ins” of creditors. 
  
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10055202/EU-bank-proposals-risk-domino-sequence-of-failures.html


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