Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
A day after the Greek defense minister threatened the European Union with unleashing jihadists if it fails to bail out its economy, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tried guilt-tripping Germany into paying more in World War II reparations.
Tsipras accused Germany of using "legal tricks" to avoid paying reparations for the Nazi invasion, while Berlin has repeatedly said it has honored all of its obligations resulting from the war.
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Earlier Defense Minister Panos Kammenos warned Europe that if no bailout of its economic crisis is forthcoming, his nation will flood Europe with migrants and jihadists, providing them with papers to travel legally throughout the continent.
Greece is expected to go broke this month.
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Kammenos said: "If Europe leaves us in the crisis, we will flood it with migrants, and it will be even worse for Berlin if in that wave of millions of economic migrants there will be some jihadists of the Islamic State, too."
European Union finance chiefs are currently debating whether to continue a bailout plan, with Germany a deciding vote.
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"If they strike us, we will strike them," Kammenos said. "We will give to migrants from everywhere the documents they need to travel in the Schengen area, so that the human wave could go straight to Berlin." The Schengen area is passport-free.
Only Britain would be spared the threat, if carried out, as it has retained its border controls.
Meanwhile, Tsipras tried a different tact to extract more bailout money.
"Germany has never properly paid reparations for the damage done to Greece by the Nazi occupation," Tsipras told the Greek parliament Tuesday. "The crimes carried out by the Nazis are still vivid, and we have a moral obligation to remember what the forces did to the country."
The comments from both Greek officials come as the debt-stricken, socialist nation struggles to renegotiate the terms of a $240 billion euro ($260 billion) bailout.
