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Neuber: rearguard action against the European Commission |
The party was modest enough, a few glasses of German sparkling wine gulped down in a sixth-floor office on a sticky Thursday afternoon in Berlin. There weren’t even any nuts to nibble. But three weeks later, Commerzbank chairman Martin Kohlhaussen was denying it ever took place. The head of the private-sector German Banking Association (BdB) knows there is nothing to celebrate.
It was lunchtime on July 8 1999 when the European Commission delivered its damning verdict on WestLB’s 1991 scheme to increase core capital by incorporating a state-owned housing corporation, and paying interest of just 1.1%
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