{"id":952412,"date":"2026-05-11T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/952412\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:36:19","slug":"ecb-official-criticises-germanys-unicredit-bid-opposition-us-senators-to-consider-long-awaited-crypto-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/952412\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB official criticises Germany\u2019s UniCredit bid opposition; US senators to consider long-awaited crypto bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECB vice-president Luis de Guindos has criticised Germany\u2019s opposition to UniCredit\u2019s bid for Commerzbank, warning that political resistance to cross-border banking deals undermines the EU single market and its savings and investments union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for governments to argue that they are in favour of the savings and investments union if they then say \u2018Well, no, we are against this specific transaction,\u2019\u201d de Guindos told the FT in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Want to continue reading The Banker?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-duAPit fpHhtM\">Benefit from expert analysis, exclusive data and rankings, clear insight into innovation, regulation and strategy, and the context you need to stay ahead of critical developments in global finance.<\/ul>\n<p><a data-trackable=\"register-or-subscribe-barrier-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/Subscribe?cdt=register-or-subscribe-barrier\" class=\"sc-nfKuY UNzSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View your subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ECB vice-president Luis de Guindos has criticised Germany\u2019s opposition to UniCredit\u2019s bid for Commerzbank, warning that political resistance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,105364],"class_list":{"0":"post-952412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-need-to-know"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116555506411447965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}