Monday, June 21, 2010

Germany Rejects Obama’s Call on Growth, Stoking G-20 Conflict

http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a_NaXNJXVrTs




-- Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government rebuffed U.S. calls to focus on bolstering growth over debt reduction, setting a course for conflict at the Group of 20 summit in Canada this week.

“Nobody can seriously dispute that excessive public debts, not only in Europe, are one of the main causes of this crisis,” Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters in Berlin today alongside Merkel. “That’s why they have to be reduced.”