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Merkel Favors EU Treaty Change

Germany wants quick amendment on enforcing budget discipline.

By Tony Czuczka, Bloomberg | Updated on November 28, 2011

Germany spurned investor calls to maximise financial firepower to calm markets, saying its fast-track proposals for European Union treaty change to enforce budget discipline are key to solving the euro-area debt crisis.

Germany is working with “an ambitious timeline because we believe that Europe can’t wait for this forever, but that it should also be possible to put such limited change into effect in what for some is a surprisingly short time,” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told reporters in Berlin today.

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