Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Europe to Paulson: You’re on your own, Henry.


Europe’s not interested in buying toxic debt from sinking companies.
Ulrich Wilhelm, spokesman for Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said there was no need for “a measure along the lines of what has been decided in the US”. Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, also made clear after a telephone conference with his contemporaries in the G7 group of leading nations that Berlin did not need to set up a rescue package.

…The French government also said it did not plan to set up a toxic asset fund or contribute to the US scheme. British officials said they had already instigated a special liquidity scheme, but like France and Germany they did not intend to pursue a toxic asset fund.

The European Commission made clear it was not planning any emergency measures.

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