Many are hoping that the impending trial of Maurice Papon, accused of ordering the arrest and deportation of 1, 560 Jews, including many children, when he was police supervisor in the Bordeaux area in 1942-44, will turn into a show trial of the whole of the Vichy administration.

ECONOMIST: France

This was then followed by months of foot-dragging about whether ESM would really be allowed to recapitalize banks as well as plenty of back-sliding (most notably from Germany) on allowing a single bank supervisor to operate throughout the euro area.

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