Yanis Varoufakis: The intensifying class war behind the Covid-19 crisis

Visitors populate the beach of the Baltic Sea at Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, last week. When the Greek state went bankrupt in 2010, the austerity imposed on most of the Greek population did wonders to restrict investment in Greece. But it did the same in Germany, indirectly repressing German wages. Picture: Carsten Rehder/dpa via AP

Strengthening the solidarity of Europe’s oligarchs is not a good strategy for empowering Europe’s majority and will push the majority into deeper despair, writes Yanis Varoufakis.