Photo Gallery Germany's Growing Isolation
Berlin has so far stubbornly refused to throw more money at the ongoing European debt crisis. But Chancellor Angela Merkel is slowly losing allies.
Everyone is looking to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for more money. But Berlin has remained adamantly opposed to throwing more funding at the euro crisis. Slowly, however, she is in the minority in Europe.
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has found several allies in his demands for the permanent euro bailout fund to be dramatically enlarged. Most significantly, French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde has also said that the euro backstop must be enlarged. On Monday in Berlin, she said that "we need a bigger firewall."
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