Sunday, August 23, 2015

For Varoufakis it is urgent to restore democracy in Europe – Le Figaro

In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, former Greek finance minister, who is present this Sunday at the traditional Festival of the Rose, said he felt that the French government had not the necessary authority to defend his point of view, and to ensure that this account in the negotiations.

After a meeting of twenty minutes on Sunday in Paris with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, co-founder of the Left Party, Yanis Varoufakis told the press that he spoke of “the importance of democratizing Europe again.” “This is the number one priority for all Europeans,” said former government minister Syriza Alexis Tsipras. In an interview he gave to the Journal du Dimanche (JDD), the former Greek finance minister says that if the European peoples were becoming aware “of the total lack of accountability of their leaders to the electorate, opacity They would wake up and ask that it be done differently. We must revive dialogue and restore what has been lost completely: democracy “

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the idea is to hold a European conference of” plan B “that is. ie a euro exit for an anti-austerity. “Since the Germans have a plan A (…) Well, we’ll have a plan B, that’s what we did in this case (…). Everyone has ideas on the subject. We must confront and must quickly coordinate is to organize European resistance, “said Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

European network of progressive

” Already good news, Yanis Varoufakis agrees with the European Conference of Plan B. So there we are going to participate and agree on how it is done. Also I threw him an invitation to come to our booth to Humanity Day (11, 12, 13 September), “said the leader of the Left Party. In his interview with JDD Yanis Varoufakis, which makes this Sunday, the Feast of the Rose of Frangy-en-Bresse (Saône-et-Loire), where he is the guest star of Arnaud Montebourg, former minister PS talks to launch a European progressive network.

“The silence of the French, that of Michel Sapin in the Eurogroup, the fact that a different French position ever assumed provoked in me a great sadness “

” We must make a positive proposal, something that shows the people can we do otherwise, we are not sentenced to undergo Schäuble policy “, the German finance minister, continued Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In the JDD, Yanis Varoufakis is attacking, too, Wolfgang Schäuble and to its logic: the discipline to deficit nations. Confirming his confidence in Le Monde on Saturday, the former minister supports the idea that Greece has served as a “laboratory of austerity” and then “impose on France, its social model, with its labor law . “

Referring to the position of France in the European summits, within the Eurogroup, the Greek economist advance:” I felt that the French government had not the authority to defend or even simply present its views and to ensure that account in the negotiation process (…) The Silence of the French, that of Michel Sapin in the Eurogroup, the fact that a position French assumed different is never provoked in me a great sadness. “

” The only thing done July 12 was a huge slap inflicted on European democracy. History will judge harshly what happened that day and especially our leaders who continue this charade, “says Yanis Varoufakis in the columns of JDD.

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