Germany's Merkel says it will take years to implement financial crisis solution

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed forward today with what markets see as an emerging plan for more effective action to contain the European financial crisis, urging tougher rules against government overspending. She said next week's European Union summit would take up ways to enforce compliance and write those changes into EU treaties — a drawn-out process.

By: David McHugh and Melissa Eddy, Associated Press

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Germany's Merkel says it will take years to implement financial crisis solution