Wolfgang Schäuble, who has died aged 81, was once described in this newspaper as the “big bad wolf of the eurozone”, but as the ultra-hawkish German finance minister under Angela Merkel he earned huge respect, and made a few enemies, by helping to steer the currency union through the debt crisis that followed the global financial crash of 2008.
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Berlin, Dec 27 (EFE). – Germany awoke on Wednesday to the news of the death of Wolfgang Schäuble, who will be remembered for his active role in the Unification Treaty that gave way to the reunification of the country in 1990, during Helmut Kohl’s government, and his tenacious defense of austerity during Angela Merkel’s government. …