Schäuble's letter to Rösler: German KfW bank should aid Portugal and Spain (and possibly also Greece)

Schäuble schreibt Rösler: KfW soll Portugal und Spanien helfen (N-TV, May 25th 2013)
Schäuble writes Rösler: KfW should aid Portugal and Spain
(aid program could possibly be extended to Greece)
KfW-Kredite: Schäuble plant Förderung für Unternehmen in Krisenländern (Der Spiegel, May 25th 2013)
Deutsche Krisenhilfe für Portugal und Spanien (dw.de, May 25th 2013)
Schäuble-Plan für Spanien schreckt Haushälter auf (Handelsblatt, May 27th 2013)
(Mr Rösler endorsed Mr Schäuble's proposal, details have to be hammered out)

Reuters: KfW to provide loans of €800m to Spanish SMEs as part of planned €1bln German aid programmeifre.com/germany-plans-…

— CapitalCityIFR (@CapitalCityIFR) 3 juni 2013

German KfW bank to help set up Portuguese financial body-finmins (Reuters, May 22nd 2013)
Germany's KfW to Offer Support for Portugal's SMEs-Ministers (WSJ, May 22nd 2013)
Staatliche Förderbank: KfW soll Portugal bei Firmenfinanzierung helfen (Handelsblatt, May 22nd 2013)

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KfW (Wiki)
Philipp Rösler (Wiki)
Wolfgang Schäuble (Wiki)

KfW enhances its promotional capacity with another very positive result <= 2012: 2,4bn € profit
(kfw.de,Apr 16th 2013)

public investment banks (EU member states) (EZRdevelop compilation)

last updated: May 26th 2013, 8:50 CET

Germany: GDP 1st quarter 2013:+0,1% q/q , but -1,4% y/y (Destatis, detailed statistics)

imports: -2,1% q/q
exports: -1,8% q/q

Detailed gross domestic product results for the 1st quarter of 2013 (Destatis, May 24th 2013)

Ifo Business Climate Rises (cesifo-group.de, May 24th 2013)

(graphics by Vincent Flasseur/ThomsonReutersDatastream)

(via @ReutersFlasseur)

more charts re: Germany (EZRcharts)

BoE's Sir Mervyn King on Euro, Eurozone & UK Treasury's 'help to buy scheme' [video]

Sir Mervyn King on Sky's Murnaghan programme

(video, 22 minutes, Sky News, Sun May 19th 2013)

(On British economy, low interest rates, fiscal policy, 'help to buy scheme') 

(Also on increasing exports for weaker countries and increasing domestic demand in e.g. Germany, Eurozone as a danger to British recovery)

BoE governor King warns of euro risk to British recovery (Reuters, May 19th 2013)
Sir Mervyn King warns against 'demonising' bankers (ITV, My 19th 2013)

Help to Buy scheme (Guardian compilation)

Mortgage help scheme 'will create a housing bubble' (Telegraph, Mar 20th 2013)

HELP TO BUY (bellway.co.uk)

EU parliament's ECON committee: hearing on Cyprus Bailout (May7+8)

Urgent ECON hearing with Dijsselbloem called for by ALDE Group (alde.eu, Mar 29th 2013)

Tuesday & Wednesday #Dijsselbloem, #Asmussen, #Rehn in ECON on #Cyprus + #Barnier & #Semeta on their files. Agenda: europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/…
— ECON Committee Press (@EP_Economics) 3 mei 2013

Week Ahead: May 6 to May 10 (WSJ, May 3rd 2013)
Talking about monetary union and Cyprus this WEEK (euobserver.com, Ma 3rd 2013)

"EU-TV" (EbS) schedule May 7th
"EU-TV" (EbS) schedule May 8th

 related reading:
MEPs angry at EU's Olli Rehn over treatment of Cyprus (BBC, Apr 17th 2013)
EU Parliament likely to back forced losses on wealthy failed bank depositors (Reuters, Apr 23rd 2013)
Cyprus Losses Spur EU Lawmakers to Bolster Depositor Protection (Bloomberg, Apr 9th 2013)

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EU Commissioner Rehn comments on Spring economic forecast (NOS video)

source: Rehn: de situatie in Frankrijk is duidelijk slechter (c) by NOS TV, May 3rd 2013, English, 7 minutes 

Spring 2013 forecast: The EU economy – slowly recovering from a protracted recession (europa.eu, May 3rd 2013)