BERLIN (MNI) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Friday
declined to comment on a media report that Chancellor Angela Merkel
wants him to become the next head of the Eurogroup.
“We have other tasks at the moment than to deal with speculations
about personnel,” Schaeuble told reporters here.
The German business daily Financial Times Deutschland (FTD)
reported in its Friday edition that Merkel had already lobbied on the
European level for Schaeuble to become the next Eurogroup head.
Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker recently announced
that he will step down as Eurogroup chairman when his term ends in June.
Schaeuble said there would be a decision “in the foreseeable
future” about a Juncker successor “from the ranks of the [Eurozone]
finance ministers.”
–Berlin bureau: +49-30-22 62 05 80; email: twidder@marketnews.com
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