The Societe Generale Chairman says Germany’s finance minister crossed a line last week by appearing to undermine the independence of the European Central Bank. “I think it’s quite shocking,” Bini Smaghi, a former ECB Executive Board member, told Bloomberg. Earlier, the German finance minister said it could be illegal for the ECB to intervene if the French legislative election triggers a dangerous sell off in the country’s government bonds.

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