Germany’s Steinbrueck Says Greece Was Just ‘a Foretaste’: Books
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The world is a grim place in the wake of the financial crisis, and it won’t get better soon, says Peer Steinbrueck, the German Social Democrat who served as finance minister under Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009.
Steinbrueck, 63, is the country’s first senior government official then in office to write a book about the cascade of disasters triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. He proved an adept crisis manager, winning praise from across the political spectrum.