The US may not join international efforts to tax financial transactions, leaving Europe to go it alone, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview released on Saturday.
If a transaction tax is not agreed globally at the G20 Summit in June, European Union countries would move to come up with a solution on their own, Schaeuble said in an advance extract from an article due to appear in Sunday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
"I fear the Americans do not want a financial transaction tax... If not, the German government will move for a European solution," he said.