First entry: 29 July 2015 - 15:26 Athens, 12:26 GMT
Last update: 29 July 2015 15:26 Athens, 12:26 GMTPolitics
Former
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis gave a lengthy interview to German
magazine Stern, touching on many subjects: his parents, his political
awakening, his specialization on parallel currencies, his relations with
his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schaeuble and Social Democrat leader
and Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, as well as his views on Europe.
An excerpt from the interview follows:
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has felt like a political animal since his early childhood.
"This has to do with my family," Varoufakis said in an interview with Stern. His father was imprisoned in a penal camp for four years at the time of the Greek civil war (1946-49) and been "brutally tortured repeatedly". "The reason: He had refused to denounce communists He was a liberal, educated in the spirit of the French Revolution.." An uncle of Varoufakis was "sentenced to death"
Varoufakis' mother was, however, after the World War, "a member of a right-wing terrorist organization. She hated all left." One of her duties as a member of this organization was to spy on Varoufakis' "(That's how) they met. "
Varoufakis has a close relationship with Germany. "When I was three years old, I began to learn German. And then, during the military dictatorship, I secretly listened to the broadcasts of Deutsche Welle under the blanket with my parents. That was our connection to freedom."
Every summer during the seven-year junta rule (1967-74) Varoufakis' family had "spent a holiday in southern Germany and Austria - it was a (temporary escape) from the dictatorship."
An excerpt from the interview follows:
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has felt like a political animal since his early childhood.
"This has to do with my family," Varoufakis said in an interview with Stern. His father was imprisoned in a penal camp for four years at the time of the Greek civil war (1946-49) and been "brutally tortured repeatedly". "The reason: He had refused to denounce communists He was a liberal, educated in the spirit of the French Revolution.." An uncle of Varoufakis was "sentenced to death"
Varoufakis' mother was, however, after the World War, "a member of a right-wing terrorist organization. She hated all left." One of her duties as a member of this organization was to spy on Varoufakis' "(That's how) they met. "
Varoufakis has a close relationship with Germany. "When I was three years old, I began to learn German. And then, during the military dictatorship, I secretly listened to the broadcasts of Deutsche Welle under the blanket with my parents. That was our connection to freedom."
Every summer during the seven-year junta rule (1967-74) Varoufakis' family had "spent a holiday in southern Germany and Austria - it was a (temporary escape) from the dictatorship."
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