But Europe’s policymakers claim to be making progress toward a so-called “banking union,” which means collective banking supervision, rather than a merger of banks themselves. In September, the European Commission announced a plan to make the European Central Bank the supervisor of all 6,000 of Europe’s banks.
但欧洲的政策制定者们却宣称自己正向着一个所谓的“银行联盟”推进，这意味着集体式的银行监管，而不仅仅是把全部银行整合起来。在9月，欧盟委员会公布了一项使欧洲央行成为所有6000多家欧洲银行监管者的计划。