The German finance minister loves to live in his Kafkaesque castle surrounded by high walls of rules and regulations, of protocols and directives, and fences made of primary and secondary paragraphs, of periods and semicolons – and a comma here and there, a tiny fancy sprinkle to break the dull monotony. In the nicely shielded paper world of Schaeuble there is no space for ‘exclamation marks’. Schaeuble hates surprises and wants to be covered for any unpredictable developments, cosmic attacks included.