The revelation of Evangelos Venizelos that Wolfgang Schäuble had proposed to him in a basement to accept Greece’s exit from the euro, the so-called grexit, was commented on by the Minister of Labor Adonis Georgiadis speaking to the Thessaloniki radio station Status 107.7.

Initially asked if he was aware of the then government as well as himself, Mr. Georgiadis confirmed that: “Yes sure. We all knew that.

Personally no, Venizelos didn’t tell me that, I found out much later. But it is known that Schäuble…

What happened in Greece is an oxymoron.

The anti-memorial protesters – remember the square of the indignant – wanted exit from the euro. And the central thing they hated was Schäuble».

In the press note that Schäuble was serving the exit, Mr. Georgiadis noted:

“He was the main supporter of grexit on the other side. That is, instead of loving Schäuble who wanted to implement their own political plan, they hated Schäuble who said Greece should leave the euro.

I say this so that people understand how much in politics, sometimes what they perceive and what really happens, there is a very big difference».

Regarding whether there were some from PASOK and ND who were discussing the possibility of Grexit among themselves, Adonis Georgiadis clarified that:

“PASOK and ND then, and those of us who remained from the People’s Orthodox Alarm on this side, were fanatics in favor of staying in the euro.

Those of us who remained then, the group that kept Greece in the euro, the group that is known in the broadest sense as the Samaras-Venizelos government, this group, that kept Greece in the euro, is the group that saved us. Let the world know. For those of us who know the evolution of history, we know very well that if we had followed these scoundrels, Greece today would be like Venezuela and worse.

We were saved, and we are where we are now, because some like Venizelos, like Samaras, and many others, sat and ate wood, like George Papandreou, I do not underestimate him…

Samaras was fine from the beginning, everything that was said in the first memorandum was justified. Samaras was never anti-memorial. Samaras said two things in this memorandum: he has the wrong rates, which he had, and high interest rates, which he had. He fixed both in the second. Samaras never said to leave the euro».