2023-12-27 12:11:44
«History will judge him harshly, but not harsher than those who succumbed to his destructive policiescommented the former Minister of Finance and current head of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis, on the death of Wolfgang Schäuble.
It is noted that during the tumultuous first half of 2015, the two as Finance Ministers of Greece and Germany respectively had come into conflict many times during the negotiations of the Greek government with its partners.
Yannis Varoufakis wrote in detail:
“Wolfgang Schäuble was the personification of the political support (by means of violent austerity and the destruction of democratic institutions) of a monetary union in which he himself did not believe.
In other words, he personified the explosive contradiction that gave birth to the Euro Crisis and the (inevitably failed) policies to deal with it that led, on the one hand, to the impoverishment of Greece and, on the other, to the current deindustrialization of Germany and the rest of Europe.
History will judge him harshly, but not harsher than those who succumbed to his destructive policies.”
Wolfgang Schäuble was the personification of political support (by means of violent austerity and the destruction of democratic institutions) of a monetary union in which he himself did not believe. In other words, he personified the explosive contradiction that gave birth to the Euro Crisis and the…
— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) December 27, 2023
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