Freshly out of the Greek Finance Minister’s chair, Yanis Varoufakis has declared that his German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble wants to punish Greece – sacrificing it to reform the monetary union.

In his article forDie Zeit, Varoufakis said that the goal of the German finance minister is to “discipline member states who opposed his very special plan to reform the eurozone by sharpening the social crisis in a controlled way.”