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Will Angela Merkel Save Europe’s Banks?
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Europe’s leaders have raised hopes that, when they meet Thursday and Friday in Brussels, they will agree on a banking union aimed at severing the link between the health of the euro area’s financial institutions and the solvency of its governments.
The plan’s success or failure, as with so much else in the currency union today, will depend on one person: German Chancellor Angela Merkel.