Germany and France don’t have to obey any EU rules. If Germany wants to bail out DB, they will do it. Anybody got a problem with that?
Right now, there’s a big-time bank in Italy which will fail unless the gov’t there pumps in fresh cash. The EU has been holding that funny rule over their heads for weeks now. I think that’s why Germany has not acted so quickly on this episode. It was a stupid rule when started but they’ve all forced the rule to continue for some odd reason.