SocraticGadfly: Greek bailout hostage to German elections

April 27, 2010

Greek bailout hostage to German elections

Chancellor Angela Merkel has to act tough in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election or she could lose her coalition majority in German's upper house. So Athens has to come up with long-term, not one-year, budget cuts before she'll sign on to a bailout package.

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