Germany's Schaeuble admits he asked 'a lot' of the Greeks as FinMin

Germany's parliamentary president Wolfgang Schaeuble admitted in a newspaper interview on Monday that he had "asked a lot" of the Greeks when he was finance minister at the peaks of the country's crisis, but had good reason to do so.

"As minister of finance, I had asked for a lot from the Greeks, but these reforms had been in the interest of the Greeks if they wanted to stay in the eurozone," Schaeuble told Germany's Berliner Morgenpost.

Voicing his concerns about the future of Europe in light of upcoming European Parliament elections in May, Schaeuble said that the bloc needs to "act quickly."

"The problems are huge and so urgent that no country can handle them alone. We need more Europe, but the resistance to the European Union is getting bigger," the Bundestag chief said, adding that the elections may "come as an opportunity."

He also encouraged...

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