IMF calls for 'comprehensive' euro solution

Speaking a day after meeting behind closed doors with European Union finance ministers in Brussels, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said he did not believe the euro was at risk. But he said there must be a more "comprehensive, integrated" plan to shore up the region's finances and calm investor fears.

"The eurozone has to provide a comprehensive solution to this problem," Strauss-Kahn said in Athens on Tuesday, where he met with Greek leaders to review their economic restructuring efforts, adopted earlier this year as part of a 110bn EU-IMF bail-out. "The piecemeal approach, one country after another, is not a good one."
Strass-Kahn's comments came at the same time a two-day gathering of EU finance ministers in Brussels ended without signs of consensus on the next steps for a Europe-wide response to the crisis.