Even in France and Germany, large and internationally active banks potentially exceed the government’s capacity to mount a rescue. In addition, there is the complexity of disentangling which country is responsible for what part of a rescue, when, for instance, Central European banks are controlled by an Austrian bank that is bought by a German bank that is then bought by an Italian bank.
欧洲银行的处境就可怜一些。爱尔兰和冰岛的金融业畸形膨胀，压垮了自己的国家，让全世界看得目瞪口呆。就连法国和德国这样的欧洲大国，政府救助金融业的能力也是有限的，未必招架得住那些跨国大银行惹的麻烦。此外，要搞清楚哪个政府该救哪一块，也是个麻烦事儿，举个例子：几家中欧的银行，由一家奥地利银行控股，这家奥地利银行被一家德国银行收购，那家德国银行的老板又是一家意大利银行 —— 谁能理清这一团乱麻？