Slow progress towards banking union

The European Council finally managed to reach some important compromises last week, allowing progress to be made towards setting up an EU-wide bank supervisor in the form of the ECB. But, presumably due to German insistence, the ECB will supervise only large banks, meaning that financial markets concerns about the smaller ones will remain.

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