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A protester burns a German flag as others clash with riot police as they try to enter the Greek Parliament during a general strike protest in Athens on Feb. 7, 2012.

On Wednesday, growing mutual resentment got personal when Greece’s president gave Germany’s finance minister a public tongue-lashing. In Friday’s newspapers, editorialists lament a longtime Greek-German friendship that has been badly frayed by the euro crisis.

On Wednesday, in an interview with German public radio station SWR, Schäuble seemed to attack Greek conservatives by saying: “I am no longer certain that all the political parties in Greece are conscious of their responsibility for the difficult situation in their country.” He also suggested that Greek elections may have to be postponed and that the country should install an interim government of technocrats, as the Italians have done with Prime Minister Mario Monti.

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On Wednesday, in an interview with German public radio station SWR, Schäuble seemed to attack Greek conservatives by saying: “I am no longer certain that all the political parties in Greece are conscious of their responsibility for the difficult situation in their country.” He also suggested that Greek elections may have to be postponed and that the country should install an interim government of technocrats, as the Italians have done with Prime Minister Mario Monti.