http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_14647_18/03/2012_433448

We have heard that at first you pushed for a longer-term program, five or six years of adjustment and lower interest rates, but that the Germans opposed this. Is this the case?

Exactly.

Just to insist on this point: Are the Germans taking a punishing attitude toward Greece?

I don't know if the Germans were taking a punishing attitude toward Greece, I don't like that expression, but whenever I tried to be more accommodating, whenever I tried to be, let's say, less severe, I had to face strong reactions from several countries.

He's stepping down from his post soon.