Angela Merkel’s long-time finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has joined various other European leaders and Remain diehards in expressing a desire to see Brexit reversed.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany’s finance minister is denouncing trade protectionism ahead of a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and a summit where global finance officials are expected to tussle over how strongly to support free trade.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s finance minister says Russia is conducting a “propaganda war” through fake news to try to garner influence abroad, and it has to stop.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s influential finance minister says it’s in “everyone’s interest” to avoid a further escalation in tensions between Berlin and Ankara and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would help by toning down his rhetoric.
The UK should be forced to keep paying billions to the European Union (EU) ten years after it leaves, and cannot expect any special deal on migration, a leading EU politician has insisted.
BERLIN – Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (pictured above) and a senior Bavarian politician criticised Greece on Sunday over the way it is managing its role in Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War Two. Schaeuble, who has clashed repeatedly
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday he believed European powers could reach a deal with Britain on its demands for reforms to the European Union, with terms that would still allow for deeper integration of
Greece makes one debt payment, wonders if it can make the next; Europeans reject more bailout money for Greece, for now; Jean-Claude Jüncker warns of Anglo-Saxon threat to eurozone
The eleventh-hour decision to extend Greece’s bailout a few weeks ago turns out to have been an even closer shave than it seemed at the time, with Reuters reporting that a massive revolt among German conservatives left the vote “hanging by a thread,” as one German legislator put it. Escalating tensions between sullen Greece and fed-up Germany could make the votes on further bailout extensions or new financing deals even tighter.
