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GERMANY TOLD U.S. TO STOP POINTING FINGER AT EUROPE
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 28, 2011 - 09:42 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Germany told the U.S. to stop pointing the finger
at Europe for its own economic woes while debt-wracked Greece promised
to do its utmost to avert a financial meltdown in the eurozone.
"Europe's snowballing debt crisis had nothing to do with the United
States, which would do better to focus on solving the very real
problems of its own," said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
His barbed comments were clearly aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama
who had warned a day earlier that Europe's failure to tackle crippling
Greek debt was "scaring the world".
"It's always much easier to give advice to others than to decide for
yourself. I am well prepared to give advice to the U.S. government,"
said Mr. Schaeuble in an English-language address to the European
School of Management and Technology in Berlin.
"Even if Obama is thinking the opposite, I don't think the problems
of Europe are the reason for the problems of the U.S.," he said,
AFP reported.
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 28, 2011 - 09:42 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Germany told the U.S. to stop pointing the finger
at Europe for its own economic woes while debt-wracked Greece promised
to do its utmost to avert a financial meltdown in the eurozone.
"Europe's snowballing debt crisis had nothing to do with the United
States, which would do better to focus on solving the very real
problems of its own," said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
His barbed comments were clearly aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama
who had warned a day earlier that Europe's failure to tackle crippling
Greek debt was "scaring the world".
"It's always much easier to give advice to others than to decide for
yourself. I am well prepared to give advice to the U.S. government,"
said Mr. Schaeuble in an English-language address to the European
School of Management and Technology in Berlin.
"Even if Obama is thinking the opposite, I don't think the problems
of Europe are the reason for the problems of the U.S.," he said,
AFP reported.