The authorities of Germany, the EU and Greece are seeking ways to keep Athens in the eurozone. This was stated by Vice-Chancellor of Germany Sigmar Gabriel in an interview to the newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
He also stressed that there are no other plans and neither have there been. The Vice-Chancellor of Germany noted that the current eurozone is more stable than it was a few years ago.
International media previously reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble do not exclude a potential Greek exit from the eurozone.
In particular, the German magazine Spiegel reports that, in their opinion, the eurozone economy is strong enough and the risk to countries like Ireland and Portugal is minimal, because it is believed that these countries' solvency has been restored. The newspaper notes that the German authorities consider the exclusion of Greece from the eurozone to be almost inevitable if the leader of the opposition party SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, wins in the upcoming election.
