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Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin: ''Both Athens and Berlin have compromised''

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Greek bailout

The creation of a European banking union is a major step forward in the region’s financial integration. The first step in this process, single supervision, became a reality earlier this month when the European Central Bank took the helm of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. The next step, the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM), is an effort to solve the problems of too-big- and too-interconnected-to-fail and cross-border crisis management in the eurozone.

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank said on Thursday that it would begin buying hundreds of billions of euros worth of government bonds in an aggressive — though some say belated — attempt to prevent the eurozone from becoming trapped in long-term economic stagnation.