German Chancellor Angela Merkelâs Christian Democratic Union may adopt a motion at an annual party congress next week to allow euro members to exit the currency area, a senior CDU lawmaker said. A motion that proposes allowing a euro member that doesnât want to or is unable to comply with the common currency rules to leave the euro without losing membership in the European Union has been accepted by the party for debate at the CDUâs annual congress, Norbert Barthle, the ranking CDU member of parliamentâs budget committee, said in a phone interview in Berlin. It probably has enough support to be passed by delegates at their meeting in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Nov. 14-15, he said. âThis motion will go through, I am sure of it,â Barthle said late yesterday. âAny country that wants to leave the euro on its own should not be prevented from doing so.â Any German move to allow a state to exit the currency area, which is not envisaged under current euro rules, would require changes to the blocâs guiding treaty to come into force. That can only happen with the backing of Germanyâs EU partners. âIt will become part of our party platform for future policy with regard to amending the framework treaties of the euro,â Barthle said. To become government policy, it would have to be agreed by all three parties in Merkelâs coalition and may need opposition support in a full parliamentary vote. The motion was first reported yesterday by German newspaper Handelsblatt. Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy first raised the prospect of a member state leaving the euro last week, when they withheld aid for Greece and said that a planned Greek referendum on its bailout would be an in-or-out vote on euro membership. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou later pulled the ballot. Mario Draghi, in his first week as European Central Bank president, said Nov. 3 that itâs not illegitimate to question Greeceâs place in the euro area. Even so, the blocâs founding treaty doesnât allow for a country leaving and it would be hard to imagine it happening, he said. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...it-clause-in-platform-cdu-s-barthle-says.html