Brexit struggles ahead

SIR – Yanis Varoufakis’s book Adults in the Room should be required reading for all those engaged in the Brexit negotiations.

Tracing the struggle of Greece’s finance minister (as Varoufakis then was) to achieve a solution to the poor state of the Greek economy, a pattern begins to emerge. An early meeting with Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch president of the Eurogroup, resulted in a rational but unsatisfactory discussion. The following day it was reported in the press as a virtual brawl. Sounds familiar?

After years of delays, threats and press slanders, the Eurogroup (an unelected body of European finance ministers with no legal standing) managed to sideline and eliminate the last of Varoufakis’s parliamentary supporters, and the subjugation of the Greeks was completed. Aldyth Scott

Crawley, West Sussex

SIR – I have lived in Germany, I have been chairman of a majority Germanowned company, and I get on well with Germans.

However, I now believe that German hegemony over Europe is becoming a greater threat to the wellbeing of Britain than the threat from Russia. Their aggressive negotiating stance over Brexit demonstrates the lengths to which the German government will go to ensure their control over Europe is not in any way compromised. Anthony Stansfeld

Kintbury, Berkshire