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2012-06-17 — bloomberg.com
The European Central Bank said it can't release files showing how Greece may have used derivatives to hide its borrowings because disclosure could still inflame the crisis threatening the future of the single currency.
Bloomberg News is suing the ECB to provide the documents under European Union freedom-of-information rules. The papers may help show the role EU authorities played in allowing Greece to mask its deficit for almost a decade before the nation's troubled finances necessitated a 240 billion-euro ($301 billion) bailout and the biggest debt restructuring in history.
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