That is how the European Coal and Steel Community was gradually transformed into the EU.

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Financing from banks has also been constrained owing to deleveraging, particularly by European banks.

So, what should Western central banks do?

European banks are in a more precarious situation.

One of the oldest common institutions, it began as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

Indeed, gradual integration of the potentially vast European capital market, and the creation of cross border European banks as a result of mergers, made it look as if a new European breed of superbanks was emerging.

European banks are playing a much reduced role in Asian trade finance.

In the case of the banks that required state rescues, European competition rules are requiring divestment and downsizing.

Similarly, European and American banks keep the resources that are looted from Africa.

Likewise, many other European banks are cutting back their overseas business sharply.

European banks could bulk up in large part because it was assumed that their respective governments backed them.

This is why European banks are now reluctant to lend to each other.

European and other international banks had acquired a lot of dollar denominated assets which they habitually funded in the interbank market as the market dried up, they were forced to buy dollars.

The impact is particularly vivid in trade finance, where European banks have been major participants in Asia.

As a result, European banks have suffered from massive write offs on toxic American securities.

Money market funds from the United States are returning, albeit cautiously, to resume funding of European bank debt.

The alternative is the one urged by Sarkozy and the Banque de France purchases by Europe s banks of their countries government bonds.

European banks remain balkanized, with a patchwork of national regulators seeking to promote their own champions.

European banks holding Greek government debt could keep pretending that it is worth its full value.

Regardless of how these governance and fiscal issues are resolved, or muddled through, Europe s banks remain a thorny issue.

The role of European banks is especially significant in Singapore and Hong Kong the region s two major financial centers.

The chiefs of major European banks such as Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and Société Générale were naturally also unanimous in their hostility.

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With the onset of the European sovereign debt crisis in 2010, banks appetite for public debt fell again.

As they struggle to raise new capital, European banks and insurers are likely to be forced to sell overseas assets.

Indeed, more than thinking, it should have done some regulating to prevent Europe s banks from becoming so vulnerable.

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European banks have been operating on a great deal of debt and very little shareholder capital the essential buffer against potential losses.

This is what independent central bankers are for, and that is why their independence from political interference has been enshrined in the European Treaty.

Some prominent senators even suggested that very large European banks represented something of a role model for the United States.

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As Trustees of Friends of Europe , we would urge the European institutions and EU political leaders to renew their efforts regarding both the Lisbon Treaty and the Lisbon Agenda.

The European Union wants to establish a European Systemic Risk Board composed of the national central bank governors, chaired by the European Central Bank.

Ironically, the October meeting of the ECB s Governing Council will take place in Paris this year.

MUNICH Last June, the European Commission announced its about face on bank restructuring.

Indeed, the Asian Development Bank estimates that European banks fund about 9 of total domestic credit in developing Asia three times the share of financing provided by banks based in the United States.

Be it because of a sovereign default or because of large losses accumulated under complacent accounting rules, the insolvency of a large bank (particularly a European bank) is far from a remote possibility.

With European banks hunkering down, the renminbi s exchange rate fell for 11 consecutive days, even though China was running a current account surplus.