Thursday, May 20, 2010

Europe Debt Crisis - German Finance Minister: Markets Out of Control - CNBC

Published: Thursday, 20 May 2010 | 8:26 AM ET
By: Quentin Peel, Financial Times

The man at the eye of the financial storm that has engulfed the euro has learnt to be patient after 20 years confined to a wheelchair. But Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany’s finance minister, is also a man in a hurry.

He wants urgently to rewrite the rulebook of the euro zone to prevent any such crisis happening again, and at the same time to revive the momentum of international negotiations on tougher regulation of financial markets. He has returned to the idea of an international financial transaction tax, to make financial institutions share in the costs of the crisis, even if it can be agreed only inside the European Union.

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