Greece finance minister says video of him giving finger to Germany is fake
Source: The Guardian
Relations between Germany and Greece reached a new low on Sunday evening when Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister, was forced to deny “giving the finger” to Germany in a two-year-old YouTube video.
Appearing via videolink on Günther Jauch, one of Germany’s most-watched political discussion programmes on the state TV channel ARD, Varoufakis was shown a video of himself criticising the Greek government for accepting the European Union’s bailout conditions.
In the video, filmed at a conference in Zagreb in May 2013, the finance minister said in English: “Greece should simply announce that it is defaulting, just like Argentina did, within the euro in January 2010, and stick the finger to Germany” – at which point he appeared to raise his middle finger – “and say, ‘Well, you can now solve this problem by yourself’.”
Jauch then asked Varoufakis, who could be seen shaking his head in the background: “The middle finger for Germany, Mr Minister? The Germans pay the most, and are criticised the most for it. How does that go together?”
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/16/greece-yanis-varoufakis-video-middle-finger-germany
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