In March, Euclid Tsakalotos, now the new Greek finance minister, spoke at the Sinn Féin conference in Ireland comparing Greece to Ireland, talking about the need for solidarity in Europe and how the continent needs to look at the Greek economic crisis. “Some European governments will be arguing we should not be giving problematic Greeks special treatment,” says Tsakalotos. “But you know that we are not asking for special treatment, but for equal treatment in a Europe of equals.”
Tsakalotos starts speaking around the 5:30 mark in this video: