Guido Westerwelle

• Merkel tries to calm storms over Greece, ECB policy

  Domestic criticism has narrowed Merkel's room for manoeuvre when Greece is in dire need of more aid.

• Germany calls for European rating agencies after S&P downgrade

  Europe needs to create independent credit rating agencies and stop relying solely on leading US-based agencies, says Germany

• German foreign minister hits out at US over debt crisis

  Germany's foreign minister on Sunday lashed out at the United States over criticism the eurozone is not doing enough to solve its economic woes, noting that US debt had also contributed to the current crisis. Guido Westerwelle told the Bild am Sonntag weekly: "Let us not forget that the cause of the current crisis is too much debt in Europe,...

• German mole identified after WikiLeaks disclosure

  A top aide to German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has been identified as the person responsible for passing on information about government coalition talks to the US embassy in the latest WikiLeaks disclosures. A spokesman for Westerwelle's Free Democratic Party (FDP) told journalists yesterday that his personal assistant Helmut Metzner ...