Speaking at a forum organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association in Berlin, Germany’s Former Vice Chancellor and member of the Green Party Joschka Fischer expressed his worries over a possible electoral victory of Alexis Tsipras and his leftist party SYRIZA in Greece.
“If the president of SYRIZA became Prime Minister, he would be able to drag along the entire European south to dangerous leftist paths, and that would be fatal for the European Union,” Fischer argued, adding that as he reads, “Tsipras wants to put an end to the policy of austerity.” Germany’s number two between 1998 and 2005, under Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, revealed that he personally asked the current German government what they will do in such a scenario “and they answered that they would have to negotiate with him,” wishing them “good luck with that.”
Further in his speech, Fischer extensively referred to the current situation in Greece, which is in the cyclone of the crisis, accusing at the same time Chancellor Angela Merkel for turning the economic crisis into a political one. According to Fischer, everything changed in late 2008 when Nicolas Sarkozy called German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to draw a common policy in the European Union. From the beginning “Merkel made it clear that she did not desire a common policy but only a loose cooperation,” he concluded, sideswiping that there was a “German finger” in the Greek crisis.
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