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Greece issues demarche over Germany official's "insult"

Xinhua, March 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

Greece issued a demarche over German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble's statements against his Greek counterpart, Yanis Varoufakis, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Thursday.

Greek ambassador in Berlin made the demarche to the German Foreign Ministry to express Athens' displeasure over Schaeuble's "derogatory remarks."

Amid an ongoing verbal war between Athens and Berlin over the resolution of the Greek debt crisis, the German official called Varoufakis "foolishly naive" during a press briefing in Germany, according to Greek media.

Athens dismissed the wording as unacceptable and insulting.

Meanwhile, several Greek ministers have used similar hard talk recently against Germany and Schauble in particular. In the latest such verbal attack, Social Security Minister Dimitris Stratoulis called the German official "obsessive" and rejected "Berlin's bid to turn Greece into a "protectorate" state.

On Wednesday, Greek Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos said he was ready to sign a court verdict that could lead to the confiscation of German state assets in Greece for compensations of Nazi war crimes. Endi