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Schaeuble: The rouble crisis 'doesn’t mean we accept that Russia can impose its interests by military means' (Photo: EPP)

Germany split on how to handle Russian rouble crisis

Dominant figures on the right and left in Berlin have voiced different views on how the EU should handle Russia’s rouble crisis.

Wolfgang Schaeuble, the finance minister from the centre-right CDU party in the grand coalition, showed little sympathy in an interview with the Rheinische Post daily on Christmas eve (24 December).

“Of course, we are concerned about the develop...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Schaeuble: The rouble crisis 'doesn’t mean we accept that Russia can impose its interests by military means' (Photo: EPP)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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