Berlin - Chancellor Angela Merkel sought backing Sunday from sceptical Germans for a costly worldwide bank-rescue plan.
In remarks to a Sunday newspaper, Bild am Sonntag, she said, "Only action by the state can restore necessary confidence now."
Before a meeting Sunday in Paris of the 15 eurozone leaders, she said that the intervention had to be internationally coordinated.
"We are not doing this for the sake of the banks but in the interests of the people," she told the Sunday version of the mass- circulation newspaper Bild.