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Media Report: Porsche to Book Profits Higher than Turnover ... Manuel Barroso, said the EU needed to streamline national banking regulations. The EU's Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy added that banks selling risky securities should hold at least five percent of such investments to share the risks. The announcement came just hours after the commission approved Britain's nationalisation of the troubled mortgage lender, Bradford Яamp; Bingley. The British move is among a string of recent European government interventions to save troubled banks.
(Deutsche Welle)
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