BERLUSCONI TELLS GERMANY TO ‘LEAVE THE EURO’

Italy should start printing fresh euros and Germany should leave the currency union, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Friday, MF-Dow Jones reported.

“Here’s my crazy idea; Let’s start printing euros ourselves,” Mr Berlusconi told an assembly of his center-right People of Liberty party’s parliamentary deputies.

“Germany should leave the euro if it doesn’t agree with the European Central Bank serving as a lender of last resort,” he added, MF-Dow Jones said.

If the ECB doesn’t take on that role, Germany’s role in Europe should be reviewed, he said.

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