Germany tells Greece to stop asking for help and start cutting budgets "The ball is now in Greece's court," said Schaeuble. It's in their hands to win back the confidence of the people of Europe. They're only going to accomplish that with concrete actions and deeds. The poll of 4,000 people in Germany, France, Spain and Italy showed 78pc of Germans and 65pc of French people wanted Greece to leave the euro zone, with 51pc in Spain and 49pc in Italy also backing a Greek exit. Big majorities in all four countries, which have a combined population of 254m, did not expect that Greece would ever repay its bailout loans. The poll, conducted by the Ifop Institute for Bild am Sonntag and leading newspapers in France, Spain and Italy, showed only small minorities in the four states want to scrap the euro and return to their respective national currencies. "The poll shows two things," Schaeuble said. An overwhelming majority want the euro ...and secondly it shows how much trust Greece has forfeited among Europeans. A separate study, conducted by the German finance ministry, showed that a collapse of the euro would wipe 10pc off Germany's GDP. The study, seen by German weekly Der Spiegel, also showed that unemployment would nearly double to five million people. The new government must now work to fix its public finances while negotiating with euro zone leaders who are losing patience with Athens after two multi-billion-euro bailouts since 2010 that have failed to stem the crisis.