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Saturday, 04 July 2009

Swiss MP in Nazi jibe to Germany over tax row

A war of words between Switzerland and Germany over banking secrecy escalated on Wednesday when a Swiss member of parliament compared German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck to the Nazis. “He reminds me of the generation of Germans from 60 years ago who went through the streets wearing leather coats, boots and [Nazi] arm-bands,” Thomas Mueller said to gasps in...

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French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, from left, French Central Bank Governor Christian Noyer, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, German Central Bank Chairman Axel Weber, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pause during the group photo of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at the Treasury Department on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, in Wash

photo: AP / Evan Vucci

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