Austria finance minister says Europe can easily cope economically with Grexit


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  • Saturday, 04 Jul 2015

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in Athens, Greece, July 3, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

VIENNA (Reuters) - Europe would suffer little economically should Greece leave the euro zone but the consequences for Greece would be considerably worse, Austria's Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling said on Saturday.

"For Europe, this would be easy to manage economically. For Greece, it would indeed be considerably more dramatic," Schelling was quoted as saying in an interview with online newspaper Die Presse.

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