Video | German finance minister scolds his spokesman on live tv

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble publicly humiliates official spokesman Michael Otto for not distributing federal fiscal data to journalists attending a press conference.

8 November 2010, 12:00am

“How dare you speak, move it, just see that the media get the data in hand before we start, I will return in 20 minutes,” an irritated Schaeuble told Michael Otto as camera’s rolled live on national tv.

The press conference resumed in exactly 20 minutes as the journalists present for the press conference all had the data in hand.

The German Finance Minister is considered to be the most clicked politician in German, and his outburst with his spokesman has already been seen on YouTube by more than 300,000 visitors.