let's bring in our financial correspondent of booze and who's done a front for comma what can the e.u. actually do to help european companies. well first of all the european union can make sure the channels for financial transactions remain open and if this doesn't work with corporate banks then state owned banks could be forced to provide those services in the future then the german government has confirmed that the export guarantees and investment guarantees for iran stay in place that is that part of the risk that german companies take when doing business with iran will be protected by the german taxpayers and last but not least the european union has kept its so-called blocking regulation in place which effectively prohibits