The book by Evangelos Venizelos, “War Editions 2009-2022” Pataki Publications, was presented in the evening at the Byzantine Museum in the presence of government officials, former ministers and executives of PASOK and economic factors. The Speaker of the Parliament, K. Tasoulas, the former Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, the ministers K. Hatzidakis, M. Varvitsiotis, K. Pierrakakis, Th Livanios, the former PASOK ministers, Anna Diamantopoulou, Yiannis Maniatis, P. Beglitis, G. Floridis, D. Reppas. The secretary of PASOK, Andreas Spyropoulos, Kostas Skandalidis, the member of parliament X. Kefalidou, the party officials, N. Salagiannis, G. Koutsoukos, X. Protopapas, G. Datseris, D. Rovlias, , Milena Apostolaki, L. Grigorakos and G. Voulgaris, D. Avramopoulos, G. Hardouvelis, E. Christofilopoulou, Sp. Lykoudis, the businessman Evangelos Mytilineos, the managing director of Eurobank, F. Karavias and others.
In the book, Evangelos Venizelos tells the journalist, George Kouvaras, the events of the 2009-2019 Memoranda crisis, as well as their political ramifications. “I defend three governments of G. Papandreou, L. Papadimos and A. Samaras.
Evangelos Venizelos mentioned that in his 9 months as finance minister, he found himself three times in front of scenarios for Greece’s exit from the Eurozone, culminating in the well-known meeting with B. Schäuble, in Wroclaw, Poland, in mid-September 2011.
He also argued that Greece was a “laboratory” for the fiscal coordination of the Eurozone. According to Mr. Venizelos “in the decade 2010-2019 Postcolonization was tested”, In the book he narrates with great precision the events and the very difficult negotiations with the European partners and the IMF as well as the critical discussions within the governments. How ETHEDE, the precursor of ENFIA, was decided, how PSI was made, what happened in Cannes and with the referendum. “I think it is a real reflective celebration of the Postcolonialism. To realize what has happened”, he noted, while acknowledging A. Smaras that he went too far to implement a policy that had a political cost.
“We delivered the country standing, we experienced the risks of the first half of 2015”, emphasized Evangelos Venizelos. Regarding the current juncture of the war in Ukraine, he emphasized that “it will be judged within Western societies. It will be judged within the institutions and mechanisms of the American Republic”.
Professor Giorgos Zannias, head of the Council of Experts at the Ministry of Finance, also spoke about the book, referring to personal aspects of those difficult times.
He explained that the meeting with B. Schäuble in Wroclaw was kept secret because “if we had made it public, the “lets talk for the exit of Greece”, the next day the banks would have been empty”.
The author, Christos Homenidis, also disagreed, saying that “then Venizelos lived together with Zannias in their personal Thermopylae”, while the journalist Giorgos Kouvaras, who spoke and asked the questions to Ev. Venizelo mentioned that it was a big challenge to talk to him which lasted 10 hours over 2 days.
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