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Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schauble has been a central figure in the recent negotiations of terms of Greece's bail-out. Justin Webb spoke to people who know him to get a perspective on the man who may hold the future of the Euro. They include Professor Michael Sturmer, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's advisor and who worked closely with him in the 1980s; and Katinka Barysch, director of political relations at Allianz insurance company. Schauble was injured in an assassination attempt in 1990, which, says Professor Sturmer, focused his mind. "Before the assassination attempt he was easy going, very good sense of humour. Since then he's very focused, is impatient, he doesn't suffer fools lightly," he said. The profile starts with the news report of his attack in 1990.
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