Merkel keeps focus on euro stability

Analysis feature discussing the context for Germany's policy in dealing with the challenges facing the EU's single currency in the light of the Greek debt problems.

The stability of the single currency that now binds 16 member states of the European Union is the most important priority not simply for the German government, and for German voters, but for the German constitutional court that sits in Karlsruhe, the highest court in the land.

ESO: Background information: Germans launch case against euro http://www.europeansources.info/record/germans-launch-case-against-euro/

ESO: Background information: Splits open on role of IMF in Greece / Germany backs IMF bail-out for Greece http://www.europeansources.info/record/splits-open-on-role-of-imf-in-greece-germany-backs-imf-bail-out-for-greece/

ESO: Background information: Germany rebuffs Lagarde criticism http://www.europeansources.info/record/germany-rebuffs-lagarde-criticism/

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