After receiving a bailout of €750 million in 2008, SNS Reaal was thought to be profitable but its capital limits left it below legal solvency amounts, forcing the Dutch state to take a stake in the troubled financial concern. The Netherlands’ Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the move was to insure financial stability, especially after […]
Read MoreDoctors going unpaid for months. Legions of unemployed swamping benefits offices across the country and a situation in which even the employed are not receiving money. Such is the state of Greece, a society in ‘free fall’ ever since the financial crisis began. [Yahoo News]
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