Approximately 200 of Europe's 6,000 banks will come under the supervision of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt as of 2014, according to an agreement reached by European heads of state and of governments last December.
But because the Bank's current 1,500 employees are insufficient to accomplish this new task, the ECB will have to recruit. First, however, it must wait for the European Parliament to finish discussions aimed at defining the Bank's exact role.
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