middleeasteye.net: He offered rare praise for his former nemesis Angela Merkel for her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s war to come to Germany, but said that “Europe has lost its capacity to respond rationally to common problems” over the refugee crisis. Merkel had done more than any other leader to open doors to refugees, but he was quick to forewarn that the political classes in Germany, and some sections of German society, are turning against her because of it.
He warned that the main beneficiaries of the recent attacks in Paris would be the defence and security companies, and those “people with terrible agendas” who will now “utilise the pain and the grief, the rage that most people feel, in order to push those agendas that have nothing to do with security” and in fact endanger it.
He said the actions of IS in Paris will only feed into Islamophobia which is “the greatest gift” to the group and “extremists everywhere”.
The oustpoken finance minister became a darling of the left for standing up to the EU and Troika against imposed austerity. He later resigned from the Greek government when it became clear that it would be accepting EU terms of austerity. Middle East Eye caught up with Varoufakis at his London hotel where we asked him about the economics of war, terror and refugees.
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