Merkel’s Coalition to Win Majority for Enlarged EFSF in Vote
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to win majority support for a planned increase in the size of the euro rescue fund in a parliamentary vote tomorrow, lawmakers said.
“It’s clear we’ll get our own majority,” Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, who heads Merkel’s Free Democratic Party coalition partner, told reporters in Berlin today. A bigger fund will “calm financial markets and stabilize the euro.”