In charts: why European stock markets are in crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The UK and EU are both developing live share trading databases to bundle together basic trading information such as prices and deal sizes.
55% : Individual EU countries are taking their own national measures.
55% : Germany's Financing for the Future Act passed late last year.
52% : But the solution itself is complex, especially in the EU, which has 27 member states.
49% : Yet those ambitions are littered with political, financial and cultural obstacles that for years have proven overwhelming.
46% : The threshold for a business to be able to go public has been lowered from a minimum market capitalisation of €1.25mn to €1mn, while the tax allowance for employee share ownership has increased to make holding stock more appealing.
44% : EU politicians are fervently trying to unlock growth via an ambitious Capital Markets Union plan, which involves making it easier for companies to list and for investors to back them.

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