Interestingly, neither the New York Fed nor the Banque de France charge Germany to store its gold.

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On 22 January 1963 General de Gaulle of France and Germany's Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty in Paris.

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Germany's de facto loans to these banks is equivalent to around 30% of its GDP (this figure is based on the assumption that, in a worst case of a eurozone breakup, Germany was unable to share the cost with other eurozone members on the basis of an official burden-sharing formula).

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