91.  Germany is concerned that unclear wording in the stability pact will give governments room to borrow excessively, boosting inflation and weakening the common currency once it is launched.

92.  Germany and France closed ranks to protect their plan for a common European currency, rejecting calls to relax the membership rules or delay the project.

93.  Germany lined up further allies across Europe for the harsh limits on government borrowing that it wants imposed on countries that take part in a common currency.

94.  Germany will press its European Union partners to accept its terms for introducing a common European currency at a meeting of finance ministers on Monday.

95.  France and Germany are struggling with record unemployment and need to take further austerity measures to prepare for the common European currency.

96.  France and Germany, the two biggest partisans of a common currency, will squeak under that limit if they manage to do so at all.

97.  France had threatened to delay its signing of the stability pact unless common currency countries agreed to make a verbal commitment on jobs.

98.  Germany and France, the driving forces behind the common currency plan, have struggled to reduce their deficits as record jobless rates sap social security funds.

99.  Germany will press its European Union partners Monday for tougher penalties on nations adopting a common European currency that let their budget deficits get too high, economists said.

100.  Germany will reduce its deficit this year and next to meet the entry rules for a European common currency, the euro, Waigel said.