A majority of Germans want debt-ridden Greece to be thrown out of the euro zone if necessary and more than two-thirds oppose handing Athens billions of euros in credit, a poll published on Sunday showed.
More than half of Germans — 53 percent — think the European Union should expel Greece from the euro zone if necessary, according to the results of an Emnid poll published Sunday in the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
67 per cent of Germans did not want their government and other European Union countries to spend a single euro cent – let alone billions of euros to salvage Greece.
Meanwhile, the Sunday edition of Die Welt newspaper published an interview with Harvard professor and former officer of the International Monetary Fund Kenneth Rongoff, who warned that Germany may have the fate of Greece. “Public finances in Germany cannot long be maintained in their present condition. A day will come when you will have the Greek problem, maybe not in the same scale, but it will be painful,” said the economist. At the same time Rongoff believes that financial support for Greece was imminent. “Until Germany is ready to expel Greece from the eurozone, it will have to help the country financially,” he explains.
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