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Angela Merkel wants "successful" discussions on Greece (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

EU leaders differ on special budget tsar for Greece

EU leaders arriving in Brussels for a summit Monday (30 January) have given a mixed response to Germany's radical idea to have an EU commissioner take over Greece's fiscal policy, with Chancellor Merkel saying she hoped to avoid a "controversial" discussion in favour of a "successful" one.

Berlin's proposal to see have a Greece-designated commissioner with a "veto right against budget decisions not in line with the set budgetary targets" dominated journalists' questions ahead of the sum...

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Angela Merkel wants "successful" discussions on Greece (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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