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Varoufakis tells El Mundo that creditors want to “humiliate Greece”

Does the EU want to punish and humiliate Greece?

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Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis accused Greece’s creditors of exercising terrorism in Greece when using scare-mongering tactics to influence Greek voters. In an interview with Spanish daily El Mundo on Saturday, he said:

What they’re doing with Greece has a name – terrorism. What Brussels and the troika want today is for the yes (vote) to win so they could humiliate the Greeks.
Why did they force us to close the banks? To instill fear in people. And spreading fear is called terrorism.

Further down in the interview, the flaboyant economist said –

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Europe needs an agreement, Greece needs an agreement, meaning we will reach an agreement.

He did not hesitate to refer to Spanish leftist party Podemos:

I think that in Europe there is a need for parties like Syriza and Podemos, which are both critical of the system and pro-European and democratic. Those who hate us want to cast us as anti-European but it’s not true, we are not.

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