Yanis Varoufakis. Rome press conference announcement,October 26,2018. All rights reserved.
The main reason why we are here today is because Italy is being torn apart by two destructive forces: one is Brussels and the other is Matteo Salvini: by the failed establishment of Renzi-Merkel-Juncker-Moscovici on the one hand, and by the reckless, racist anti-European Salvini project on the other. What we are doing as DiEM25 in Italy, in France, in Germany, in Greece, has to be seen in this context. Today Italy is ground zero of the European crisis.
It may surprise some of you, but Brussels and Salvini are working very well together, as we speak, against the interests of Italians in particular and of Europeans in general. Salvini is Brussels’ greatest supporter. Mr.Juncker, Mrs.Merkel, Macron et al are hanging on to power with the argument: “Whatever mistakes we have made in Brussels, Berlin, or Renzi’s Rome, after us… comes Salvini. So you’d better support us.” And Brussels is also Salvini’s greatest supporter. By imposing on Italy rules that guarantee Italy’s stagnation and falling income and prospects for a majority of Italians, they enable Salvini’s sortie into xenophobic populism.
