The German and French finance ministers said Monday
they were stepping up cooperation in the battle to end the eurozone's
long-running debt crisis.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and his French
counterpart Pierre Moscovici met in Berlin against the background of
renewed tensions in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative-led
coalition over Europe's efforts to end the crisis and Greece's future
as a euro member state.
Following their talks, Schaeuble and Moscovici said the eurozone's
two biggest economies were planning to set up a joint working group
on the debt crisis, which is now in its third year.
The aim of the group would be to help the two nations to "work
very closely together so as to prepare on a bilateral basis for the
pending decisions."
