Merkel pressed to give up on Greece

German chancellor Angela Merkel is coming under growing pressure from within the ranks of her own party bloc to give up on Greece for the sake of the euro.

Members of Merkel’s Christian Democratic bloc are openly challenging her stance of keeping Europe’s most-indebted country in the 19-nation currency region.

Even some officials in the finance ministry are leaning toward the conclusion that the eurozone would be better off without Greece, two people familiar with the matter said.