În noiembrie 2008, Parlamentul European a solicitat Comisiei prezentarea unei analize a efectelor comportamentului băncilor care, în acea perioadă, şi-au transferat activele din statele membre care aderaseră recent la UE.
In November 2008, the European Parliament called on the Commission to present an analysis of the effects of the behaviour of banks that, at that time, had transferred their assets out of those Member States that had recently acceded to the EU.