Alexander Dobrindt, general secretary of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavaria-based sister party of Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU):
I still believe that Greece’s exit would be a possible long-term alternative, for Europe and for Greece itself,”
According to the article Dobrindt “urged the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, to prepare the legal ground to allow for the legal bankruptcy of a euro zone member state and its exit from the currency union.”