David Cameron has told Germany that Britain needs a stable euro currency.
"Britain wants a strong and stable euro zone," the Prime Minister told a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
But he said that Britain would not agree to any EU treaty changes that drew Britain further into the euro.
Cameron was visiting Berlin a day after going to Paris on his first foreign trip as head of a coalition British government.
Asked whether Britain planned to imitate Germany's surprise ban on naked short selling of certain financial instruments this week, Cameron said this was a matter for Britain's Financial Services Authority.
Mr Cameron's message in both Berlin and Paris has been the coalition's commitment to a "constructive engagement" with the rest of the EU - but that stops short of Britain offering a contribution to the massive 500 billion-euro bail-out for the euro which the 16 single currency member states agreed.
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