Yanis Varoufakis stole the limelight during a speech at Patras on Wednesday night when he wore a t-shirt depicting a man on a wheelchair tramping over another man accompanied by the slogan: «It’s the economy stupid!»
The reference to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is inescapable.
It is said that this is exactly the expression used by Schäuble against Alexis Tsipras during the conference in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2016.
The all-powerful finance minister of Germany, and staunch supporter of austerity in southern Europe and especially in Greece, is to leave his post after Sunday’s elections.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) announced that he will be nominated to become president of the German parliament.
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