Theodoros Pangalos, outspoken Greek former foreign minister, dies at 84 -
Pangalos’ family said on Twitter that he died on Wednesday “peacefully at home, surrounded by his family and close associates.”
He became a senior official in the Socialist Pasok party, founded by Andreas Papandreou, that dominated the political scene in most of the 1980s and 1990s, but inherited the country’s financial crisis in 2009 and gradually imploded - together with the public finances. “It was all in the framework of a relationship of political clientelism, corruption, bribery and debasement of the very meaning of politics,” he added.
He had a long history of unguarded remarks, having managed, as foreign minister in the 1990s, to offend Germany - which he compared to a “giant with a child’s brain” - and Turkey, after he referred to Turks as “thieves and rapists.”
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