The Troika, now renamed the ‘Brussels group’, is back in Athens, but the trust is not. On the contrary, during the first visit to the Greek capital by Commission, ECB and IMF experts since Alexis Tsipras’ government assumed power, the war of words between Athens and Berlin only escalated. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his Greek counterpart, Yanis Varoufakis, have been engaging in some worrying verbal sparring matches.
It is mainly Varoufakis who is stoking the fire. “Schäuble told…