“The Greeks must stand by their commitment, but we must give them time. We cannot tighten the screws any further,” said Peer Steinbruck, the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor.

He said the political and economic fall-out from Greek ejection from the euro would be devastating and must be avoided.

The plea came amid reports that Berlin is so worried that a Greek crisis would spin out of control that it is ready to back the next €31bn payment to Athens under its EU-IMF Troika rescue, despite failure to comply with the terms. 

Ambrose, 30 September  2012

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