It's one thing to say you shouldn't have gotten into the euro, it's quite another to say you should get out of the euro. If we backtrack, we fall off a cliff. This is my argument to everyone.
UK newspaper The Guardian has this morning published a fascinating interview with the Greek fin min Yanis Varoufakis in which he addresses a wide range of subjects
Linked as it is to that of the Eurozone, his country's fate is intrinsically connected to the global economy. Is he fearful?
A bit," he says. "If I weren't scared, I'd be awfully dangerous."
The bailout was not a bailout of Greece in 2010, it was a bailout of the German and French banks. The German public was misled into thinking that this was money going to the Greeks, the Greek public was misled into thinking that this was our salvation."
If he lost the job, he says, he wouldn't mind.
When interlocutors threaten me with the fall of this government, because they do, I say: 'Make my day,'" he smiles. "I mean, I really don't want to be in this office ... I will go back to my book about Europe, which is half-finished. It's very difficult to find an ending when I am still in this job."
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