Chancellor Angela Merkel’s potential coalition partners, the Social Democrats, want to make a proposed financial transaction tax a requirement for participation in a European banking union.

German vice chancellor Philipp Roesler has been criticised for resurrecting the possibility that Greece should leave the eurozone.

A BOTCHED sale of German bonds rang alarm bells in Berlin yesterday, with opposition MPs accusing Angela Merkel’s government of failing to spell out the true risks of the euro debt crisis to Germans.

Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition is squabbling so much over the eurozone debt crisis that even the opposition is urging her to quash the infighting.