The Eurozone (officially euro area,^[1] or informally Euroland) refers to a currency union among the European Union member states that have adopted the euro as their sole official currency. The Eurosystem, headed by the European Central Bank, is responsible for monetary policy within the Eurozone.

From this I get that the ECB heads the association of national central banks, which then work with national banks.

European Investment Bank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The EIB is an international financial institution, a publicly owned bank. Its owners are the Member States of the European Union

So all members of the Eurozone are owners of the EIB, which also means that some owners are not in the Eurozone.

I meant that getting the EIB to buy toxic assets as in the Paulson plan would be just as complicated then getting it to nationalize bank in the Swedish fashion, which is what I assume he meant in his last sentence.

Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine