By Giuseppe Fonte
ROME (Reuters) – The European Central Bank has overreached in pushing Italian bank UniCredit to get out of Russia, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday.
Euro-zone banks still involved with Russia more than two years after Moscow invaded Ukraine have come under growing pressure in recent weeks from the bloc’s supervisors, as well as U.S. authorities, over their ties to the country.
The ECB has asked lenders under its watch to provide a “clear road map” to exit the Russian market.
“It seems to me the ECB has gone a bit too far,” Tajani said at a news…