Germany told the U.S. to stop pointing the finger at Europe for its own economic woes while debt-wracked Greece promised to do its utmost to avert a financial meltdown in the eurozone.
“Europe's snowballing debt crisis had nothing to do with the United States, which would do better to focus on solving the very real problems of its own,” said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
His barbed comments were clearly aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama who had warned a day earlier that Europe's failure to tackle crippling Greek debt was “scaring the world”.
“It's always much easier to give advice to others than to decide for yourself. I am well prepared to give advice to the U.S. government,” said Mr. Schaeuble in an English-language address to the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin.
“Even if Obama is thinking the opposite, I don't think the problems of Europe are the reason for the problems of the U.S.,” he said, AFP reported.
