Michael Fuchs, deputy chairman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU parliamentary group, said his faction would not give Greece the two-year extension it wants on its austerity programme.

BBC: Antonis Samaras

Speaking on the Today programme, Michael Meister, the deputy parliamentary chairman of Mrs Merkel's governing CDU party argued that we need "more Europe" and that the keys to this are responsibility, subsidiarity, plus solidarity in the eurozone.

BBC: MP: 'We must stick to our corner' on EU

"Either you support more integration or you will end up not in a currency union, " argues Michael Meister, the deputy chief whip of the German Christian Democrats and a close ally of Angela Merkel.

BBC: Multi-speed Europe edges forward with bank decision