European finance ministers meet tomorrow to hammer out a new Greek bailout package watertight enough to avoid triggering a default that German Chancellor Angela Merkel said would be uncontrollable. Officials must figure out how to design a plan that will encourage investors to roll over expiring Greek debt after Merkel yesterday ended a standoff with the European Central Bank over restructuring the country’s debt load.
Merkel said today in Berlin that policy makers must make sure the Greek crisis doesn’t infect the rest of the euro region and spark a new global financial crisis.
“We all lived through Lehman Brothers,” she told a meeting of activists from her ruling Christian Democrat party. “I don’t want another such threat to emanate from Europe. We wouldn’t be able to control an insolvency.”
Bloomberg
Merkel said today in Berlin that policy makers must make sure the Greek crisis doesn’t infect the rest of the euro region and spark a new global financial crisis.
“We all lived through Lehman Brothers,” she told a meeting of activists from her ruling Christian Democrat party. “I don’t want another such threat to emanate from Europe. We wouldn’t be able to control an insolvency.”
Bloomberg
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