BERLIN (MNI) – The German parliament will be able to deliberate
“thoroughly but swiftly” on an eventual bill on aid for Greece, Volker
Wissing, a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU-FDP
government coalition, said in a television interview Thursday.
The situation in Greece “has to be stabilised as soon as possible,”
the fiscal policy speaker of the FDP parliamentary group told German ARD
public television.
“We must not allow those who have bet against Greece to be the
winners in the end,” Wissing stressed.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Wednesday he
expected the EU, the IMF and the ECB to agree with Greece on a budget
consolidation program before the end of this week. The German government
would then introduce an aid bill into parliament on Monday.
–Berlin bureau: +49-30-22 62 05 80; email: twidder@marketnews.com
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