Varoufakis has found his attention niche in bashing the euro and became popular in certain circles for this. That the euro is malicious by design is obviously r

Varoufakis has found his attention niche in bashing the euro and became popular in certain circles for this. That the euro is malicious by design is obviously ridiculous. Now here's one fact that nationalists don't like: the euro has a number of aims, including its symbolism of a united Europe, to stabilise the many small currencies and prevent speculation harming it [1], etc. But one of its key ideas is of course also to drive the EU countries closer. All of the EU as we know it today stems from two premises: (1) we are stronger/better off together and (2) we have to bring a.of Europe together and connect it to avoid that it may ever again become a battlefield. This second lesson, stemming from hundreds of European wars and the nightmares of WW 1 & 2 ist of course fundamentally contrary to the idea of national autonomy. Germany is not going to attack France because both sides would essentially be destroyed and unable to function independently. The same is true for all other EU countries (including the UK, which is why Brexit is such a nightmare for all sides). Why was the euro so harmful for Greece (Varoufakis' home country)? Two reasons, (1) because it wasn't finished, politicians lost the political will to dare to finalise the project (banking union, eurozone budget, ...) as it meant to give up more power and control to the EU. (2) Greece LIED and produced false national statistics for decades. They didn't actually fulfil the minimum criteria to join the euro. Successive governments falsified the numbers - and when it all came tumbling down (when one government was finally honest!) the Greek citizens paid the price. Greek politicians, over decades, had found it was easier to lie and produced false numbers than actually address the multitude of structural problems Greece faced. The rest of the EU then bailed it out but as a condition for this demanded rather painful reforms. Those were probably too harsh/sudden in many ways, but the real blame should still be attributed to the ones who caused the issue to begin with: the Greek governments that lived off unsustainable debt and got elected for promising more unsustainable spending - and then hid it all with invented numbers. [1] e.g. see https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-bank-of-england.asp https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-ban...