Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
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Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#2Difficult not to love how he discusses everything with a very different language from traditional politans (or I would say, professional polititians). He sounds true and honest, and by no means a radical inciendary that wants to destroy the EU and the Euro. His political career has been cut short by massive pressure from all sides but he has gained sympathy for Syriza's cause worldwide in a very short time and nonetheless make progress in negotiations despite having everyone against his ideas in economic institutuions.
I'm sure we'll miss Varoufakis and I hope his style - be like a common mortal - permeates politics everywhere.
Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#3Difficult not to love how he discusses everything with a very different language from traditional politans (or I would say, professional polititians). He sounds true and honest, and by no means a radical inciendary that wants to destroy the EU and the Euro. His political career has been cut short by massive pressure from all sides but he has gained sympathy for Syriza's cause worldwide in a very short time and noneth…
Hear, hear.
While Greece have lost this battle, he has shone a light into the murky workings of European politics that I believe will be invaluable and inspiring to future reformers, not to mention the citizens of the EU member states.
Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#4Difficult not to love how he discusses everything with a very different language from traditional politans (or I would say, professional polititians). He sounds true and honest, and by no means a radical inciendary that wants to destroy the EU and the Euro. His political career has been cut short by massive pressure from all sides but he has gained sympathy for Syriza's cause worldwide in a very short time and noneth…
Hear, hear.
While Greece have lost this battle, he has shone a light into the murky workings of European politics that I believe will be invaluable and inspiring to future reformers, not to mention the citizens of the EU member states.
Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#5Difficult not to love how he discusses everything with a very different language from traditional politans (or I would say, professional polititians). He sounds true and honest, and by no means a radical inciendary that wants to destroy the EU and the Euro. His political career has been cut short by massive pressure from all sides but he has gained sympathy for Syriza's cause worldwide in a very short time and noneth…
Radical incendiaries? I wonder what epithets you'd employ to describe people who have voted against EU treaties (to be told to vote again until they get it right)?
Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#6What he says is very damning. If true, it shows that the EU leadership is not interested in the welfare of the members at all, and is very worrying.
Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#7Difficult not to love how he discusses everything with a very different language from traditional politans (or I would say, professional polititians). He sounds true and honest, and by no means a radical inciendary that wants to destroy the EU and the Euro. His political career has been cut short by massive pressure from all sides but he has gained sympathy for Syriza's cause worldwide in a very short time and noneth…
Hear, hear. While Greece have lost this battle, he has shone a light into the murky workings of European politics that I believe will be invaluable and inspiring to future reformers, not to mention the citizens of the EU member states.
I'm just wondering what the heck Greece has done with the some half trillion Euros it's sucked in over the years and which hard-pressed taxpayers across Europe, many with standards of living below that of the average Greek, will now be helping to offset?
Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#8I wonder what effect the current EU "offer" to Greece will have on Britain's vote down the line, or on other states that may now have second thoughts about joining the euro. From my (American) perspective, it looks like being part of the Euro means giving Germany an awful lot of influence over your fiscal policy.
Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hear, hear. While Greece have lost this battle, he has shone a light into the murky workings of European politics that I believe will be invaluable and inspiring to future reformers, not to mention the citizens of the EU member states.
I'm just wondering what the heck Greece has done with the some half trillion Euros it's sucked in over the years and which hard-pressed taxpayers across Europe, many with standards of living below that of the average Greek, will now be helping to offset?
> Less than 10% of the bailout money was left to be used by the government for reforming its economy and safeguarding weaker members of society.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/29/where-did-the-g...
Re: Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
#10While I am not a big fan of austerity, one can ultimately only spend what you got. There were several months in which the Greece government had broken with the austerity agreements but in exchange did not manage to achieve anything which could be called an improvement of the country income situation. As a consequence the gap between income and spending even widened without giving positive impulses to the Greek economy.