Yanis Varoufakis
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
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But the first credit card of the Greek state ran out very quickly.
And now what happened was, and this was a crime against Europe.
If you think about it, it's the French and German banks, right?
And you have the French and German governments that don't want to bail out their own banks.
Greece could not repay this money.
If you're bankrupt, you're bankrupt.
There's nothing you can do about that.
You can pretend that you're not bankrupt by borrowing from the same people.
Except that it's not exactly the same people.
Now, the Slovenes, the Portuguese, the Irish, the Spaniards, who had nothing to do with that...
I have no problem admitting that it's a Greek state and therefore the Greek people who voted for our governments and it is the French and German bankers who are responsible for it.
The Slovenes, the Slovakians, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, they were totally innocent and they were made…
to fork out the majority of the money so that Greece would take it in order to make whole the French and the German banks.
This is what you do if you want to destroy European solidarity.
So one of the reasons why Europe is going down the drain is because of those shenanigans.
My decision to accept the position in the finance ministry was, of course, a very difficult one, as you can imagine, Rory.
I'm a lefty.
I didn't see this as a mandate to bring in socialism.
I saw it as a mandate to do one really simple thing that any neoliberal should want to do, which is to stop
kicking the can down the road, to stop taking one credit card to pretend that you're paying the other credit card.
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