BERLIN (MNI) – Germany’s free-market oriented FDP, the junior
partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government coalition, will never
accept the introduction of eurobonds in the Eurozone, a senior FDP
lawmaker said Thursday.
“Under no circumstances will the FDP agree to this,” the FDP’s
parliamentary speaker on economic affairs, Martin Lindner, told the
German Phoenix public television.
Eurobonds would take pressure off highly indebted Eurozone member
states to consolidate their budgets, Lindner argued. Moreover, eurobonds
would drive up borrowing costs for Germany, he said.
However, the German daily Bild reported Thursday that Merkel’s
CDU/CSU-FDP coalition no longer categorically rejects the idea of
eurobonds.
–Berlin bureau: +49-30-22 62 05 80; email: twidder@marketnews.com
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