Germany won’t make promises it can’t deliver on, says Merkel

Date: Thursday 26 Jan 2012

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has once again insisted in the need for a “unified Europe”.

Yesterday evening at the annual World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort Davos, Merkel repeated her call for a union of “budgets, competition and solidarity”.

On the Eurozone crisis, the German Chancellor feels that “we must ask ourselves what role Europe should play in the world” and added that “we must show that all of the (member states) are strong, although some stronger than others (…)We can only be successful if we are unified.”

Merkel explained Germany’s stance against the concept of Eurobonds or an increase in the bailout fund: “What we do not want is a situation where we promise something that in the end we cannot deliver - because then Europe will be really vulnerable.”

But in a more optimistic tone, she declared herself to be “convinced that we can keep this whole Europe together”.

MD

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