Money | financial crisis Europe Agrees to Take It One Financial Crisis at a Time Sarkozy's hopes dashed amid other leaders' opposition By Matt Cantor Posted Oct 5, 2008 10:53 AM CDT Copied From left, Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Junker, Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Nicolas Sarkozy, Britain's Gordon Brown and European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet meet in Paris Oct. 4. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg) Leaders of Europe’s four biggest economies did not settle on a unified plan for tackling the financial crisis, the Washington Post reports. Instead, each country will deal with banking problems as they crop up. While France’s Nicolas Sarkozy hoped for a Europe-wide plan, British and German leaders were opposed to a single safety-net fund. German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested that governments were willing to step into the financial fray individually as the leaders called for strict market regulation. They agreed on the need for a world summit “at the earliest possible date” to update the international economic system organized in 1944. The crisis “is a worldwide problem, and it should get a worldwide response,” Sarkozy said. Read These Next A family hike took a tragic turn in Arkansas on Saturday. Delta pilot arrested moments after landing plane. Multiple people shot at Reno casino. White House makes Hegseth put his polygraph away. Report an error