''German Finance
Minister Wolfgang Schäuble visited a ghost town in Athens on Thursday.
The only thing left that can help Greece pull itself out of the crisis
is a debt haircut by public creditors. Anything else is reckless.
Athens must have come across like a ghost town to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble during his visit to the Greek capital
on Thursday. The city center was sealed off and protests were banned.
There were considerable fears that riots might break out because of the
hatred many Greek people harbor toward the finance minister. The leftist
newspaper Avgi greeted his arrival with a well-known Latin
slogan: "Ave, Schäuble, morituri te salutant" -- Hail, Schäuble, those
who are about to die salute you. When state visitors in a united Europe
are received in that fashion, something has clearly gone terribly wrong..''
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