2012-06-09telegraph.co.uk

Commission officials are pressuring Greece to wind down failed banks, including its fifth-largest lender ATEbank, by threatening to refuse a bailout on competition grounds.

If the EU was to block an ATEbank rescue it would mark a policy shift and a more aggressive stance in tackling weak European banks at the centre of a dangerous new moment in the eurozone crisis.



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