MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the impact on savers of financial difficulties experienced by banks

20.4.2016

pursuant to Rule 133 of the Rules of Procedure

Mara Bizzotto

B8-0538/2016

Motion for a European Parliament resolution on the impact on savers of financial difficulties experienced by banks

The European Parliament,

–  having regard to Rule 133 of its Rules of Procedure,

A.  whereas the 200 000 shareholders of two former-cooperative banks in the Veneto region, Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca, have lost a total of EUR 9 billion;

B.  where in December 2015 the status of the two banks was changed from 'società cooperativa per azioni' (cooperative joint-stock company) to 'società per azioni' (public limited company);

C.  whereas on 15 April 2016 Bankitalia told a Veneto Regional Council committee of inquiry into the serious problems in the Veneto banking system that it had not made any mistakes during the inspections and checks it had carried out on the two banks;

1.  Calls on the Commission to ascertain whether Bankitalia did in fact properly supervise the banks' activities;

2.  Calls on it also to protect the interests of the shareholders of the two former-cooperative banks.