The fact that Germany is now in the same pile of shit as the rest of us offers a glimmer of hope

... Thank you Mr Varoufakis... And "Irish economist David McWilliams" also speaks sense...
Glimmers of despair also :

DM: When I was born in Ireland, the country was very poor. And then it became quite wealthy, on the back of the European project, on the back of Europe's position in the global supply chain, and with a tax policy that attracted lots and lots of capital. My sense is this model might be gone, and this style of globalisation along with it. I fear that the period when you could travel, engage, move - we might have reached the end of that open period. People will say: "This virus came from the cosmopolitan world, from the world of international movement." Whether it's right or not, we might begin to blame people. We know that the Black Death resulted in ferocious antisemitism in Europe. People asked: "Who can we blame for this?" And so they blamed the one community that was already in isolation in the ghetto.