Focus reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted that EU Treaty changes are the only way to achieve the kind of EU budgetary surveillance and discipline measures Berlin is seeking. “We need a stronger oversight mechanism for the stability and growth pact and the European Commission can only make suggestions below treaty change,” said Merkel.

In Berlin today, David Cameron will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss German plans for an EU Treaty change to strengthen economic union in the eurozone. Cameron will restate his opposition to Franco-German proposals for a financial transaction tax and is also expected to urge Merkel to allow the European Central Bank (ECB) to bailout the single currency by acting as a lender of ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that EU treaty changes rather than eurobonds will help solve the eurozone debt crisis.

German chancellor Angela Merkel ended a weekend meeting with UK prime minister David Cameron reassured that Briton would back a change to the European Union treaty to help manage national budget crises in return for a limit on EU spending

At Friday’s meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, PM David Cameron ruled out any EU Treaty change to give the EU more powers over eurozone economies, if it were to affect the UK, saying: “There is no question of agreeing to a treaty that transfers powers from Westminster to Brussels.

Spiegel suggests that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering abandoning her plan to increase economic cooperation between all EU member states, in order to reinforce Eurozone cooperation, through the creation of Eurozone Treaty, which would operate in parallel with the Lisbon Treaty.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her openness to modifying the EU treaties on a visit to Brussels yesterday (5 October), making an overture to British Eurosceptics who are seeking to use the euro zone debt crisis to repatriate powers back to Westminster. More »

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has warned Mr Cameron that unless he accepts unconditional changes to the Lisbon Treaty a split will take place, leaving Britain isolated and in a voting minority within the EU. “She explicitly told Cameron that if there was no treaty change at the level of the 27 EU members then

Following a meeting in Strasbourg yesterday German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti reaffirmed their commitment to increasing fiscal governance in the eurozone. Sarkozy and Merkel announced that they would present EU Treaty changes aimed at achieving this “within the forthcoming days”, with the aim of having a wider discu...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave her backing on Monday (8 March) to a proposed European Monetary Fund to rescue ailing eurozone member countries but warned this would mean changing the European Union treaty.