Dominique Strauss-Kahn: “I am and will always be a friend of Greece”

He was removed from politics and public life in general after the Sofitel scandal in New York in 2011. He now lives in Morocco where he is very involved in humanitarian action and continues to provide his valuable advice to private companies with absolute discretion.

Faced with the harsh changes of this world, however, Dominique Strauss-Kahn finally agreed to share his views and analysis during a meeting hosted by the highly influential Politique Internationale and its director Patrick Wasjman in Paris. In front of about 150 French company CEOs, in the living room of a posh hotel in the French capital, the former CEO of the IMF spoke without filters and answered, in fact, only a few questions of "NEA". Because Greece "means a lot" to him.

"I am and will always be a friend of Greece," he says and smiles. He does not talk much but insinuates a lot causing pensiveness in his interlocutor. When he says that he is a friend of our country, he immediately points out that "Greece is part of Europe, so it merits attention". Be careful because he believes there is a sharp and clear western decline. "A continent that is unable to accept deprivation and suffering is in decline."

His thinking goes to the current situation, because he believes that Europeans are in favor of Ukraine, but when we ask for a real embargo and effective sanctions, at a cost similar to higher energy prices, no one wants them. The conclusion is clear, a bit like the history of Greece: Europe is a continent that has lived many happy years and now this period is coming to an end.

On the new page of the continent there will be, according to the former politician, a huge phenomenon of climate migration. Especially from African countries with "thousands of people who will be looking...