Merkel-Schaeuble Split on Greece Dismissed by German Offi
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble work together “just fine” on Greece, her spokesman said, after a newspaper report suggested a policy rift between the two.
The Bild newspaper report said Merkel kept Schaeuble in the dark about talks she held Monday with the heads of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund to help end the impasse over Greece’s financing. Steffen Seibert, Merkel’s chief spokesman, denied that account, saying “the chancellery” told Schaeuble about the meeting in advance.