In his revelations about what he said was an unknown three-hour meeting with Germany’s then ambassador to Greece, Peter Schof, before Syriza, Giannis Varoufakis
Commenting on the meeting between the ambassador and Alexis Tsipras, which was featured in the Skai documentary “In the Millimeter“, the former finance minister said in an interview with Kontra Channel that he had been invited to the German embassy before SYRIZA became the government, claiming that the German diplomat was operating with the aim“to choke“the then-incoming government.
As he described it, a “virtual negotiation“ took place during the three-hour meeting, and called the ambassador “a dog of war“, saying he had “the mindset of a German conqueror“. According to him, the key message conveyed to him was that “if you don’t sign the amnesty, we will take your homes.”
Reflecting specifically on the Tsipras-Sov meeting, Mr. Varoufakis noted that if he had to choose who he believed between the former prime minister and the German ambassador, he would believe the first, but clarified that he had no personal knowledge of the meeting.
“Unrepentant, incompetent and incompetent and incompetent, Dijsselbloem”
About Alexis Tsipras, he also said that “a good fight was fought“, but accused the former prime minister of eventually “joining the Troika“. At the same time, he attacked former Eurogroup chief Gerun Dijsselbloem, whom he called “unintelligent, incompetent and ignorant“, saying that he “didn’t even understand what he was proposing“. He even claimed that after the signing of the Memorandum, Tsipras maintained friendly relations with him at the Meximou Mansion, which – he said – “cannot be forgiven.
At another point in the interview, speaking about the third Memorandum, the former minister argued that the previous program could not be completed without a new memorandum, estimating that Alexis Tsipras “gave them the opportunity to put the blame on the left“.
He also revealed that he had asked Germany’s former finance minister WolfgangSeuble when the decision to remove the Samaras government was taken, with Schäuble – according to him – replying “in July 2014“.
Finally, in the wake of the discussion on the cost of the Memorandum, Varoufakis also attacked former ESM chief ClausRegling, calling him “uncredible, ignorant and immoral“. As he argued, Regling had told him: “Don’t you have to pay the IMF? Cut pensions.”
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