Skip to content
Author
PUBLISHED: | UPDATED:
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

CAMP DAVID, Md., May 19 (Reuters) – Group of Eight leaders

stressed in their Saturday discussions the need for European

countries to take steps to minimize contagion from the euro

zone’s economic crisis, a White House official said.

The official also said that President Barack Obama would

hold a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel

after the conclusion of the G8 summit on Saturday afternoon.