Juergen Stark has warned today while speaking in Ireland that the sovereign debt crisis has spread to core of the eurozone. From RTE website he went on to say.

 “These are very challenging times… The sovereign debt crisis has re-intensified and is now spreading over to other countries including so-called core countries. This is a new phenomenon,” Mr Stark said in a speech to Ireland’s Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin.

“The sovereign debt crisis is not only concentrated in Europe, most advanced economies are facing serious problems with their public debt.”

More on the subject can be found at ZeroHedge.

Naturally this is not news to anyone, and certainly not to European banks, which have seen their deposits with the ECB (or a safe haven for any cash within the European interbank system) rise at the fastest rate in years, if not ever, since the last MRO. It has taken just 11 days to go from €73 billion on November 8, post the most recent LT liquidity operation, to €237 billion. We expect the total to surpass the two years high of €300 billion in under 5 days.