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Rory Stewart

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

I'm explaining.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

So hold on, let me get this right.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

You've got the bankers there, but were the big governments, the French, the Germans, did they want Greece inside the euro?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

And if so, what were their reasons?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

Or were they brought into the euro on conditions that they never met and probably never could meet?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

And then when you became the finance minister and the bailout is happening,

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

Is the bailout happening to help Greece, or is the bailout happening to help the same banks that got you into the euro in the first place?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

Okay, Yanis, Rory, quick break and then back for more.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

But then you also had this big moment with the referendum, essentially, where the Greek people said, no, no more austerity.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

We can't take any more.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

It wasn't exactly that.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

So they were... Under conditions of moral therapy.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

They were rejecting what the Europeans were insisting that you did.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

Can I just pick up on something you said earlier?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

You said the reason why Europe is going down the drain is

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

But the crisis that you dealt with

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

And the global financial crisis alongside it.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

Am I right that you're basically saying that that is what has in part led to the kind of global mess that we're in now?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

That is partly what gave us Trump.

The Rest Is Politics: Leading
187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism

It's partly what gave us Brexit.