French Finance minister Michel Sapin leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee palace in Paris, France, July 1, 2015. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
WARSAW (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble acknowledged on Monday that the German government and outgoing finance minister Yanis Varoufakis had disagreed on many issues but said it would not necessarily be easy for his successor in Athens.
"He represented a stance that, on many points, we did not agree with but at no point was there a personal problem and there isn't now after he announced that he was no longer minister either," Schaeuble said at a news conference in Warsaw with his French and Polish counterparts.
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