German minister's bid to kickstart EU reform gets cool welcome
Share:
BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A bid by Germany's finance minister to kick-start talks about a European bank reform were reined in on Wednesday by the government, whose spokesman said it had yet to get the backing of coalition partners in Berlin.Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, had outlined changes for the euro zone to complete its stalled banking union reforms, offering a key concession from Germany -- conditional backing for a pan-European deposit protection scheme.But a government spokesman said..