Asian stock markets fell Thursday, with the depreciation of the euro, because of question marks on the ability of European leaders to establish a decisive plan to resolve the debt crisis of the state of the EU summit Friday.
MSCI Asia Pacific index of Asian markets outside Japan lost 0.8% and the Nikkei stock index in Tokyo withdrew by 0.7%.



Traders anticipate increases in the early session but European markets, after an indecisive trend in the previous meeting due to hopes that the European Central Bank could take further measures of liquidity in financial markets.



ECB's monetary policy council meets Thursday, the last session of this year, shortly before the official dinner will mark the beginning of the EU summit. Economists anticipate reducing the ECB's monetary policy rate by 0.25 percentage points to 1%.



The euro dropped slightly to just under $ 1.34.



Global markets have risen sharply in recent days due to hopes that European leaders will avoid last minute crisis financially, but optimism was tempered by comments Wednesday evening of a gloomy German official, who said that "many players still have not understood how serious is the situation ", referring to institutions and governments in the euro area.



Information appears in the Japanese press that the G20 group of the largest economies in the world should prepare a scheme of 600 billion dollar loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to support the efforts of European markets initially rose and the euro, but the effect of disappeared after the IMF and G20 officials have denied the news.