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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 25 January 2012 [View all]xchrom
(108,903 posts)45. Angela Merkel casts doubt on saving Greece from financial meltdown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/25/angela-merkel-greece-financial-meltdown
Angela Merkel has cast doubt for the first time on Europe's chances of saving Greece from financial meltdown and sovereign default, conceding that Europe's first ever multibillion bailout coupled with savage austerity was not working after two years of crisis that has brought the single currency to the brink of unravelling.
In an interview with the Guardian and five other leading European newspapers, the German chancellor also insisted against widespread resistance elsewhere in the eurozone and in the UK that the European court of justice (ECJ) be empowered to police the public spending and budget policies of the 17 countries in the euro.
She also called for the eventual creation of a European political union, with many more national powers ceded to a central government, a strengthened bicameral European parliament, and the ECJ assuming the role of Europe's supreme court.
Days before the latest crucial EU summit, which at Merkel's insistence and evoking scant enthusiasm elsewhere is to finalise an international treaty between eurozone governments entrenching German-style fiscal and budgetary rigour in all single currency countries, the chancellor admitted to having doubts about the strategy she has pursued throughout the crisis.
Angela Merkel has cast doubt for the first time on Europe's chances of saving Greece from financial meltdown and sovereign default, conceding that Europe's first ever multibillion bailout coupled with savage austerity was not working after two years of crisis that has brought the single currency to the brink of unravelling.
In an interview with the Guardian and five other leading European newspapers, the German chancellor also insisted against widespread resistance elsewhere in the eurozone and in the UK that the European court of justice (ECJ) be empowered to police the public spending and budget policies of the 17 countries in the euro.
She also called for the eventual creation of a European political union, with many more national powers ceded to a central government, a strengthened bicameral European parliament, and the ECJ assuming the role of Europe's supreme court.
Days before the latest crucial EU summit, which at Merkel's insistence and evoking scant enthusiasm elsewhere is to finalise an international treaty between eurozone governments entrenching German-style fiscal and budgetary rigour in all single currency countries, the chancellor admitted to having doubts about the strategy she has pursued throughout the crisis.
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