<p>Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has warned against attempts to break up the single currency bloc in a wide-ranging interview with FRANCE 24’s business editor Markus Karlsson.</p><br />“The eurozone is not to be fragmented, and anyone who contemplates this fragmentation is either wittingly or unwittingly anti-European,” said the staunch critic of austerity.<br />Speaking of a “small cash flow problem”, Varoufakis acknowledged his country would have a difficult time meeting its debt payments this spring.<br /><br />But he said he was confident it would come to an understanding with its EU creditors that is beneficial to all parties.<br />The outspoken finance minister denied he had misplayed his cards with his “frank” style, which critics say has antagonized his EU partners, chief among them Germany.<br />“Unfortunately, this crisis of the last five years has turned one proud nation against another, this is something we should avoid,” he said.<br />Touching on the vexed issue of German wartime reparations, Varoufakis said he didn’t want to tangle the sensitive subject with that of Greece’s present debt crisis – though adding: “a debt should be a debt everywhere”.<br /><br />Visit our website:<br />http://www.france24.com<br /><br />Like us on Facebook:<br />https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24.English<br /><br />Follow us on Twitter:<br />https://twitter.com/France24_en
