On Monday 28 August, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said that debt relief for Greece was not currently a priority.
“That's currently not on the agenda at all”, he stated in an interview with the German daily newspaper Mannheimer Morgen. “The country doesn't need a debt cut now, but it must continually work on its competitiveness”, he added. Any measures to restructure the Greek debt at the end of the bailout plan will not be discussed in Germany before the general...