Topic: Angela Merkel

A senior economic advisor to the German government warned at the weekend that prolonged stagnation loomed if Germany failed to quickly agree a plan to restructure its banking system. Beatrice Weder di Mauro, on the government's panel of economic advisers, made her ...

Sarkozy insists there is 'no agreement yet'

FRENCH president Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel exposed the split at the heart of the G20 summit today by warning that they will not tolerate a fresh global economic stimulus package.. Mr Sarkozy said that he would not sign up to ...

What Mr Brown can really achieve

THE riots in the City today as police clashed violently with G20 protesters outside the banks have naturally taken attention from the summit itself - which is what the participants presumably intended. His host, Gordon Brown, added that world leaders were only ...

France, Germany to push for regulation at G20

France and Germany insisted on Tuesday that an upcoming crisis summit of the Group of 20 rich and emerging nations must result in stricter financial market regulation.The renewed stress on regulation in a joint letter signed by French President Nicholas Sarkozy and ...
G-20 finance officials wrestle with differences on how to confront world economic slumpInternational finance officials worked Saturday to find common ground amid deep divisions on how to tackle the global downturn, with key players trying to inject optimism into talks that many ...

Schwarzenegger tells techies to go 'green'

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off the world's biggest high-tech fair Tuesday, telling executives to seize the economic crisis as a moment to shape up and go " green".Schwarzenegger, this year's guest of honour at the sprawling CeBIT fair in this northern ...
The surest way out of an economic crisis is to invest -- that was the unanimous view of the dignitaries speaking at the opening ceremony of the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, Monday night.. Investing in education is something that Germany ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged EU states to work together to tackle the economic downturn in an interview with a newspaper a day before a Brussels summit where leaders will discuss how to fight the financial crisis. 'The economic crisis arose from ...
European leaders agreed on Sunday to push for a global crackdown on tax havens and strict new regulation of hedge funds as part of a sweeping overhaul of financial rules designed to prevent future market meltdowns. German Chancellor Angela Merkel invited fellow ...
The number of exhibitors at the world's biggest high-tech fair, the CeBIT in Germany, will be off by more than a quarter due to the impact of the global economic slump, organisers said Friday.Some 4,300 firms from 69 countries will be displaying ...