Merkel, Schaeuble Lobby Lawmakers for Greek Aid Extension
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urged German lawmakers to back an extension of Greece’s aid program, party officials said, a vote that’s required for Europe’s formal approval.
With the vote in Germany’s lower house tentatively scheduled for Friday, Merkel went before a closed-door meeting of her Christian Democratic bloc’s parliamentary group Tuesday to lobby for the extension after euro-area finance ministers backed it, according to a party official who asked not to be named because the meeting was private. While supporting the four-month reprieve, she said Greece’s government has more work to do, the official said.