German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has squared off with the European Central Bank over the pace of pooling bank levies in a euro-area resolution fund, potentially slowing the proposal’s progress into law.

The Austrian government is beginning talks with the nation’s banks to gain their support for winding down nationalised Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International in a way that keeps it off the state’s books.

The European Union nations remain divided on whether to ease sanctions against Syria to allow for weapons shipments to rebels fighting the regime of Syria’s president Bashar Assad.