The article also says it was published in "a leading German language business newspaper", so it's likely it was translated into German as well as English.
Still, I think it's fair to say he wrote it himself, so long as it's been accurately translated on his behalf.
It was probably translated from Greek, why is it a problem?
Yeah, it's reasonable that a leader should do all his writing in his native language and have it professionally translated. Why would it be any other way?
Probably from German, translated from Greek.
No politician ever writes their own Op-Eds, for any publication. That's what their staff, freelance ghostwriters, and political think tanks are there for.
I doubt that every country works on the same political scale as the US…
I assure you, it's an international standard. In fact, this is almost certainly ghostwritten by the finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
Who's not a politician?
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Don't forget that they actually speak German in Germany, not English.
Im sure they also speak English quite well.
Indeed they do (and far better than most English-speakers speak any foreign language). My point was that this has been professionally translated from Greek into many languages, beginning with German on January 13 (paywall, sadly). So there is no point in criticising the English of the original Greek author or authors.
Hm, not the feeling I got. Scandinavian countries (and Cypriots but that's a special case) are way more fluent in English with a way better accent (better == clearer) than Germans I've met. And I've met a lot of both actually.
Hm, we had a PM (Papandreou) who spoke very good English indeed. He didn't know how to speak Greek properly though and to tel you the truth, it bothered me a lot.