The famous former minister of Greek Finance Yanis Varoufakis regarded as the enfant terrible of the european financial policy by their strong stance against the bailout agreement between Greece and the troika, has decided to return to the active policy and will be presented as a candidate for the European Parliament in the elections next may. After a long journey through the desert european political, Varoufakis, age 57, has been elected this Sunday in Berlin as head of the party list Movement for Democracy in Europe 2015 (DiEM25, its acronym in English), which he co-founded in 2016. Neither more nor less than in Germany, the country most attacked in his time as minister.
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“I call on all to join us in this quest for pan-european democracy to Europe, democracy Vevobahis for Germany, as a condition for prosperity and for an authentic democracy”, has said Varoufakis, during a press conference in Berlin. The academic, who rose to fame in the euro crisis and that it remained an open confrontation with the German Finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble (he referred to his German colleague as the “milker”), has now proposed to embody “a new transnational politics that we need in Europe”.
But true to his style, during his statement to the press in the German capital, Varoufakis recovered their criticism of the economic policy of the germans, and has said that the germans are being victims of the same austerity as the rest of Europe. “The result is a low level of investments and, as a consequence, an increase in inequality and the price of housing,” he said. “The goal is to now inject money into the economy by taking it out, if necessary, through the issuance of public debt and to introduce policies that are more green to tackle climate change”.
In a vote held earlier this year, the European Parliament had rejected the introduction of transnational lists for all parties, a decision that also supported the chancellor Angela Merkel. However, it is legally possible for someone like Varoufakis to be a candidate in Germany if you are a citizen of the EU and have a residence in the country in question. DiEM25 has also sought an ally in Germany: the party smaller, “Democracy in Motion”, whose list is now headed by the Greek.
