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Euro-zone risks ease but banks remain fragile

The continued improvement in sentiment towards the euro-zone has simultaneously eased external funding conditions for Emerging Europe’s banks and reduced the threat of financial contagion from the euro-zone debt crisis. Even so, banking systems in large parts of Emerging Europe remain fragile compared to elsewhere in the emerging world and credit conditions in most countries are still tight.

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