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Wolfgang Schaeuble (r) with French finance minister Michel Sapin (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Schaeuble said to want to split EU commission powers

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble would like the competition and single market departments removed from the European Commission, according to a report in Germany's leading centre-right daily.

The FAZ newspaper reports that Schaeuble believes the commission can no longer combine its role as 'guardian' of the EU treaties - including e...

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