Euro’s future depends on Germany’s next step

At long last we’ve seen some movement from the various investigations into how our economy dived so far so quickly. How long we’ve waited to see something, anything, happening that might just suggest that those doing the investigating were actually going to take it any further.

Now three of the most senior executives from the now defunct Anglo Irish Bank have been charged with a variety of offences under company law. It’s not before time.

Following the then government’s decision in September 2008 to effectively underwrite the banks, good and bad, the economy has been in free fall.