Kathimerini | German Finance Minister Backs Austerity, Slams Haircut Ahead of Greece Meeting Wall Street Journal BERLIN--There is "no alternative" to euro-zone member states cutting high sovereign debt and excessively large deficits, Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday, adding that pressure must be kept up on weaker member states to ... ECB presses Germany on Greek deal amid debt writedown talk German Finance Minister says no public sector haircut for Greece |