Varoufakis endorses Macron

By Obey on Wed, 05/03/2017 - 8:36am |

An interestingly personal endorsement.

While that would have been my position whoever run against Le Pen on a non-racist ticket, there is something more in my endorsement of Macron: During my tenure as Greece’s finance minister in early 2015 Emmanuel revealed to me a side of him that few progressives have seen. While the troika of Greece’s lenders and the Berlin government were strangling our freshly elected left-wing government’s attempts to liberate Greece from its debt-bondage, Macron was the only minister of state in Europe that went out of his way to lend a helping hand. And he did so at a personal political cost.

URL:

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2017/05/02/why-we-support-macron-in-the-second-round-op-ed-in-le-monde-english-original-and-diem25-france-in-mediapart/