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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

German finance minister accuses Athens of destroying trust

Tensions between two countries wound tighter after Wolfgang Schäuble launches verbal attack on Alexis Tsipras’s governmentThe war of words between Athens and Berlin intensified on Monday when the German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble said Athens’s left-led administration had ruined the trust the country had regained with its European partners. Schäuble also accused the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, of mendacity and reiterated that Greece’s debt problems lay squarely with the fact that the Mediterranean nation had lived far beyond its means. Related: Alexis Tsipras invited to Berlin as Yanis Varoufakis denies giving Germany the finger Related: German anger over Greek demand for war reparations Continue reading...


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