Even counting the additional interventions already decided for MPS, the public support provided to banks in Italy remains very limited by comparison with other countries. Public recapitalizations in Italy have amounted to 0.3 per cent of GDP.
According to the latest study of the European Commission, as of June 2012 such aid came to 1.8 per cent of GDP in  BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  Germany, 2.0 per cent in Spain, 4.3 per cent in Belgium, 5.2 per cent in the Netherlands, and over 40 per cent in Ireland.