Angela Merkel about her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble:

Gradually, as the years pass, he is becoming increasingly sensitive... Now, he wants to go to the funerals of all of his victims...

Faced with the worsening of the Greek debt crisis, the idea of a "Grexit" – an Greek exit from the eurozone – is regularly discussed in European circles, particularly in Germany, as a solution to avoid contagion to other countries.

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