{"id":5794,"date":"2010-05-01T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T13:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2024-02-17T00:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T21:29:57","slug":"angela-merkel-help-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/angela-merkel-help-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Merkel would welcome voluntary bank help for Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview to be published on Sunday she would welcome a contribution from Germany&#8217;s private sector to support a Greek rescue package.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would very much welcome the voluntary participation from banks,&#8221; Merkel said, according to advance excerpts of the interview to appear on Sunday in Bild am Sonntag.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Josef Ackermann is helping coordinate German private sector efforts to support the rescue package, a senior banking source told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The move wold make it easier for political leaders to sell a bailout to the German public ahead of a key state election.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/merkel-greece-nationalturk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5795\" title=\"Angela Merkel would welcome voluntary bank help for Greece\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/merkel-greece-nationalturk-280x193.jpg\" alt=\"Angela Merkel would welcome voluntary bank help for Greece\" width=\"280\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/merkel-greece-nationalturk-280x193.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/merkel-greece-nationalturk.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The consortium has already pledged to contribute 1-2 billion euros ($1.3-2.6 billion) toward the effort, although no formal agreement has been struck, the source said, declining to give details on how the plan would work.<\/p>\n<p>Ackermann, one of Germany&#8217;s top executives and chairman of the Institute of International Finance bank lobby, got involved in helping to assemble the consortium after a conversation with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, the person said.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Bank declined to comment on the plan, which would mark the first sign of private-sector involvement in the Greek rescue.<\/p>\n<p>German Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle said on Friday he expected banks in Europe wanted to and would contribute to an aid package for Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Merkel would welcome voluntary bank help for Greece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,51,17,118,101],"tags":[4310,7594,7602,7600,7603,7598,7596,7463,7601],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-economy","category-europe","category-hot","category-politics","tag-chancellor-angela-merkel","tag-deutsche-bank-chief-executive-josef-ackermann","tag-german-finance-minister","tag-german-finance-minister-wolfgang-schaeuble","tag-institute-of-international","tag-josef-ackermann","tag-merkel","tag-obama-and-merkel","tag-wolfgang-schaeuble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78588,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/78588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}