Wolfgang Schaeuble

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  German Finance Minister Wants to Change EU Treaties

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 16, 2012

  German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is advocating changes that will allow the EU’s monetary affairs commissioner to reject national budgets and prevent non-eurozone countries, like Britain, from nixing eurozone-only measures.

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  IMF Says Greece Needs More Time, Possible Debt Reduction

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 11, 2012

  Christine Lagarde and Wolfgang Schaeuble are locking horns over Greece.

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  Troika’s Internal Strife Stalls Greek Deal

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 27, 2012

  As tensions in Greece over additional troika-decreed austerity measures mount, spurring demonstrations and protests, tensions are mounting within the troika itself.

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  Germany No Obstacle to Oversight: EC Official

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 21, 2012

  The head of the EC's financial services arm said that the EC was confident it could win Germany over on the matter of the ECB overseeing all eurozone banks.

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  Merkel Defends ECB, Bundesbank

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 17, 2012

  Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany defended both sides of the bond-buying issue, saying that politicians should stay out of ECB limits in bond purchases but championing the right of the Bundesbank head to challenge them.

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  EC President Unveils Banking Union Plan

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 12, 2012

  The plan laid out by President Jose Manuel Barroso would not only allow the ECB to supervise all eurozone banks, but would also give it jurisdiction over a broader, and at first voluntary, EU banking base.

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  German Bankers Argue Over ECB Supervision Plans

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 4, 2012

  The EC has plans to give the ECB authority to supervise all eurozone banks, but the German government says that only the largest banks should be subject to ECB oversight.

• ECB Rescue Plan Still Short on Details

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 4, 2012

  ECB President Mario Draghi is set to unveil his bond purchase plan on Thursday.

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  Greece Must Stay in Eurozone: Hollande, Merkel

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 27, 2012

  After meeting with Prime Minister Samaras of Greece on Saturday, President Hollande of France reiterated that Greece must remain in the eurozone—echoing the words of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the day before.

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  Germany Doubles Down on Greece

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 24, 2012

  German officials seem to be backing away from earlier hints that leniency would be possible toward Greece on complying with the budget constraints of its bailout package.