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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (5) Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Factbox: Winners, losers in House healthcare bill 8:50am EDT FACTBOX-US healthcare bill would provide immediate benefits 19 Mar 2010 Democrats face dubious voters on healthcare 1:50am EDT Obama secures landmark healthcare victory | Video 10:20am EDT UPDATE 2-Venezuela punishes 80 firms for power use 21 Mar 2010 FACTBOX-US healthcare bill would provide immediate benefits 19 Mar 2010 Nanotech robots deliver gene therapy through blood 21 Mar 2010 Obama secures landmark healthcare victory | Video 10:20am EDT Factbox: Winners, losers in House healthcare bill 8:50am EDT UPDATE 1-Virginia to sue U.S. over healthcare reform 10:22am EDT Healthcare Reform Democrats face dubious voters on healthcare Democrats in Congress who passed historic legislation to revamp the healthcare system face a new challenge over the next seven months: convincing voters it's a good deal. Full Article Poll: Do you agree with the healthcare reform vote? What does healthcare passage mean for Obama? How does healthcare overhaul affect Medicare? Details of final healthcare bill Milestones in Obama's quest for healthcare reform Barroso presses Merkel on Greek aid, Athens warns Paul Carrel and Harry Papachristou BERLIN/ATHENS Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:28am EDT Related News Timeline: Greece's economic crisis 8:35am EDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a federal state party congress of the Christian Union Party in Muenster, March 20, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Ina Fassbender BERLIN/ATHENS (Reuters) - The head of the European Commission challenged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to rise above domestic politics and agree on a financial safety net for debt-stricken Greece to help preserve European monetary union. World Greece's deputy prime minister meanwhile accused Berlin on Monday of allowing its banks to take part in a "deplorable game" of speculating on Greek bonds while German exporters profited from a weaker euro due to Athens' budget problems. Jose Manuel Barroso told a German newspaper that European Union leaders must decide at a summit on Thursday and Friday on a support mechanism for Greece or risk harm to their common currency, noting the euro's stability was in Germany's interest. "We need a decision at this summit on how to deal with Greece, otherwise the heightened uncertainty will go on and on," Barroso told business daily Handelsblatt. "We can't carry on as we are, as this would threaten the stability of the euro zone and encourage speculation," he said. A spokesman for Merkel insisted that the issue of aid for Greece was not on the summit agenda, but Barroso's spokeswoman said the EU executive chief was in regular contact with the chancellor, adding: "He is not disappointed. He is hopeful ... that an agreement can be reached." Underscoring Barroso's warning, the euro slipped to a three-week low against the dollar on Monday as investors fretted over the uncertain prospect of support for Greece. The risk premium on Greek debt jumped to its highest level since March 1 and the cost of insuring Greek debt against default also rose. In Athens, Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos told a conference that unless a decision was taken quickly, "then the euro will make no sense" and decades of European integration could unravel. "As long as southern Europe is under fire, the euro is being shaking and falling and the conditions under which they (Germany) can win massive exports to the third world, to the rest of the world, are improving," he said. The Socialist bruiser fueled tension with Berlin last month by saying Germany had failed to compensate Greece properly for Nazi occupation in World War Two. "VICIOUS CIRCLE" Greece's central bank reported that the 2009 budget deficit hit 12.9 percent of national output, even higher than the new Socialist government announced when it doubled its predecessor's estimate to 12.7 percent in October. The Bank of Greece said the economy had fallen into "a vicious circle," with gross domestic product seen shrinking by 2 percent this year after a similar slump last year, and the only way out was "the drastic reduction of the deficit and debt." Merkel faces fierce opposition to any bailout ahead of a key regional election in May in which her center-right coalition's upper house majority is at stake. She repeated on Sunday that Greece, which has imposed draconian austerity measures to cut its budget gap, did not need money for now, something Prime Minister George Papandreou confirmed to her in a telephone call. "That's why I'd urge us not to stir up turbulence in the markets by raising false expectations for Thursday's council meeting," Merkel told Deutschlandfunk radio. An FT/Harris poll in Monday's Financial Times showed 62 percent of Germans oppose their government helping Greece with its budget deficit, while only 20 percent are in favor. One-third of Germans think Greece should be asked to leave the euro, while 40 percent believe Germany would be better off outside the currency bloc. A plurality of Spaniards supports EU aid to Greece while opinion is evenly divided in France and Italy, whose governments have strongly advocated helping Athens, partly because they fear a market rout of Greece might ultimately turn against them. Any financial support for Athens would likely be challenged in the German Constitutional Court, which set strict conditions barring transfers to other euro states when it approved European monetary union in the 1990s. Given the daunting political and legal hurdles, Merkel aides have suggested Greece may have to go to the International Monetary Fund rather than the euro zone if it needs help. Her spokesman hinted at a possible joint euro zone/IMF mechanism, saying: "In case of such an emergency arising ... financial co-assistance from the IMF is, for the chancellor and the government, definitely a point for discussion." Private economists say clarity is needed quickly to make Greek borrowing costs more manageable. "Unless there is a major change of heart in Berlin, it seems increasingly likely that Greece could be forced to turn to the IMF for assistance," said Ben May of Capital Economics. "After all, the only way that bond yields will return to more normal levels is if Greece gets some kind of explicit assistance." Barroso appealed to Berlin's interests as the biggest economy in securing the stability of the single currency area, which is its number one export market. Other euro zone states backed his call for an agreement this week. The foreign ministers of Italy, France and Austria called for a compromise before or at the summit. The new head of Greece's PDMA debt agency last week revised down the amount that Athens needs to borrow by the end of May to 16 billion euros. Petros Christodoulou said 23 billion euros of Greek debt falls due from April 19 to May 23, but the government has a positive cash balance of around 7 billion euros. The risk premium on Greek debt rose to more than 340 basis points over benchmark German bonds on Monday, meaning Athens would have to pay around 6.5 percent to borrow on capital markets -- more than twice what Germany pays. World Comments See All Comments (5) | Post Comment Mar 21, 2010 9:31pm EDT Italy, Spain and Portugal are next up on the aid list. Get ready for a huge wealth transfer from Northern Europe to Southern Europe Story_Burn Report As Abusive Mar 22, 2010 9:00am EDT Please,Europe,the market now is full of Greek uncertainty. But what can you do to reduce it? lx008 Report As Abusive Mar 22, 2010 9:48am EDT Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He- is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at an age gap dating site- A_ge_m_in_g l e @ c//o//m a nice and free place for Younger- Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends. karawew244 Report As Abusive Mar 22, 2010 11:01am EDT Suck it up Germany. If you truly believe in collectivism/socialism, then pay the price. Reward your profligate neighbors, punish your productive peers, and quit bothering to excel in a system that cannot reward excellence. andrewhorning Report As Abusive Mar 22, 2010 11:34am EDT AH has it right. Frankly, I think Ms Merkel is very quietly setting up Germany to leave the eurozone should the whole thing collapse. Call it an insurance policy, likely with the French as well. Greece and Portugal and Spain can all sink, no way Germany is going down with the ship. The internal contradictions of a socialist, one-currency common market riven with too much history (and, outside of Germany, not enough of a work ethic) are becoming visible to all. 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