Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany should be aware of worldwide concern that the European debt crisis can unravel into a “great crisis.”

“We have to be conscious of this concern,” Schaeuble told lawmakers in Germany’s lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, today in Berlin before a vote on the European Financial Stability Facility. He said the vote is being watched from “different continents.”

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