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Germany's finance minister says he is confident that Europe's politicians will manage to stabilize the eurozone in 2012 and keep the continent's common currency together.

Mario Monti unveiled a cabinet drawn mostly from Italy’s academic world and named himself as finance minister.

Wall Street stocks fell more than 1 percent Monday as Germany's finance minister dimmed hopes an upcoming summit would result in a breakthrough in Europe's debt crisis.

Greece will receive the next batch of bailout loans in time to avoid a disastrous default, the finance minister said Tuesday, while the prime minister was in Berlin for critical talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Greece's finance minister on Tuesday said the country wants the European Union to conclude a second rescue loan deal by the end of August, as volatile international markets fretted over the vulnerability of other eurozone members to the escalating debt crisis.

May 25 -- New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English talks about the country's economy and currency.

Estonia — the eurozone's newest and poorest member — will not shirk from bailing out much richer Portugal and Ireland, the country's finance minister said Saturday.

Portugal's finance minister says China has given him assurances it will continue to support Portuguese efforts to climb out of a financial crisis.

The finance minister Brian Lenihan confirmed Sunday that Ireland had formally applied for a bailout package to bolster its troubled banks.

Germany's finance minister is arguing that the Federal Reserve's move to pump money into the financial system increases uncertainty in the global economy and undermines the credibility of the U.S., according to an interview published Saturday.