Ministers' Monday consisted wholly of clergy who met where "they could talk golf and swear".
The Treasury secretary, who is to join G-20 finance ministers Friday and Saturday in Busan, South Korea, has lately been urging other countries to conduct bank stress tests.
E.U. officials are expected to examine possible legal hurdles — particularly whether national budget laws would need to be altered — before a meeting of euro-zone finance ministers Monday.
At the meeting of European Union trade ministers Friday in Luxembourg, France cleared the way for the European Commission to begin negotiations with Washington on a free-trade pact.
The request was due to be made at a meeting of E.U. health ministers Thursday in Luxembourg.
The EU is poised to increase sanctions on Russia at a meeting of foreign ministers Tuesday in Brussels.
The summit of Eurozone leaders came after marathon negotiations by their finance ministers Saturday to pave the way for an agreement.
At a meeting of European Union environment ministers Monday, German officials managed to persuade fellow European Union members to water down the standards.
In 2006, when Harper became prime minister, Day was made minister of public safety.
All kinds of allegations and insults are hurled at Gordon Brown, like every prime minister, day in and day out.
