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Yanis Varoufakis

  • Greece’s golden boy Yanis Varoufakis and his tragic fall from grace. It all started with a misjudged Paris Match photoshoot

    April 27, 2015

    It all began so well for Yanis Varoufakis. When he was thrust into the spotlight in January as the finance minister of a near-bankrupt Greece, the motorcycle-riding academic was acclaimed by media and academics alike as being a new voice for a new era. They dubbed him a rock star economist for his leather jacket [...]

  • Yanis Varoufakis may not be involved in Eurogroup talks for much longer, as ministers try to speak directly to the Alexis Tsipras

    April 26, 2015

    Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is being sidelined by Eurozone officials, as they choose to speak directly to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras instead. This weekend, talks were held in the Latvian capital Riga to discuss the struggling nation's bailout situation. But following an unsuccessful meeting on Friday, in which Varoufakis was turned on by many [...]

  • Greek debt deadline: Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis hits back at creditors

    April 16, 2015

    Greece’s defiant finance minister lashed out at the country’s lenders last night, insisting that he will not back down during crunch talks despite impending debt deadlines. Yanis Varoufakis was speaking after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) all but ruled out the prospect of Greece being allowed to delay its repayments to the bailout provider. “Payment [...]

  • Greek debt gets downgraded as Yanis Varoufakis heads to Washington

    April 15, 2015

    Greece’s debt was downgraded further into junk territory yesterday while Germany’s finance minister cast doubt on hopes that a deal on more funding for the country could be struck next week. Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s downgraded the country’s debt further into junk to CCC+/C from B-/B. “Without deep economic reform or further relief, we [...]

  • Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis heads to Washington ahead of crunch talks

    April 14, 2015

    Greece’s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis will jet off to the US tonight to meet President Barack Obama, as well as the lawyer who helped Greece restructure its debt in 2012. Varoufakis will meet Obama tomorrow. It will be followed by meetings with European Central Bank head Mario Draghi on Friday, Secretary of the Treasury Jack [...]

  • Greece bailout: Future looks brighter for struggling economy as Yanis Varoufakis says he’ll meet all obligations to creditor nations

    April 6, 2015

    Greece's economic situation is on the brink of improving slightly, as long as finance minister Yanis Varoufakis sticks to his word. Yesterday, he told the troubled country's creditor nations that Greece intends to “meet all obligations”, and that includes a €450m (£332m) loan repayment due to be made to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on [...]

  • Yanis Varoufakis cancels City Week speech to go to Athens

    March 23, 2015

    Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has pulled out of City Week, cancelling his plan to speak to City and global investors about Greece. Just last week his office was confirming that the high profile former professor would be giving a presentation, titled “Future of Europe: the Greek perspective” this afternoon.   But instead he is [...]

  • Was this video of Yanis Varoufakis giving Germany the finger faked?

    March 19, 2015

    It was the finger heard around the Eurozone: charismatic Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis appearing to flip the bird at Germany at a time when relations between the two countries couldn't be much tenser. Fears of a Grexit and demands for war reparations were still high on the agenda, and a flippant insult from a [...]

  • Austere Greece? Not at the home of Yanis Varoufakis as seen in lavish Paris Match photoshoot

    March 16, 2015

    Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has built his reputation on a steadfast fight against tough austerity rules forced on his country. Clearly he doesn’t hold with them at home either – judging by a lavish spread in the French magazine Paris Match, showing the economist at a piano in his living room and dining with [...]

  • Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis sounds alarm over quantitative easing

    March 14, 2015

    The European Central Bank kicked off its bond-buying programme this week, as investors cheered the move, however Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis warned over its potential outcomes. "QE is all around us and optimism is in the air," Varoufakis said in Italy. "At the risk to sound the party pooper … I find it hard to [...]

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