Tag Archives: Varoufakis

Yiannis Varoufakis has released the first audio recording from the Eurogroup sessions in the turbulent first half of 2015. The first audio clip that has been released is a spoiler of what will follow, when all secret recordings will be public on Saturday. The Euroleaks Part 1 features no other …

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“You can hear Schaeuble’s voice saying that the profits from Greek bonds he wanted for the German budget,” Yanis Varoufakis revealed in an interview ahead of the controversial release of his secret recordings from the Eurogroup sessions in the first half of 2015. “Don’t you want to hear Schaeuble speaking …

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Yanis Varoufakis has announced to release his recordings of the Eurogroup sessions in the first half of 2015 at the end of February. His decision comes after the Greek Parliament Speaker refused to receive them when the ex finance minister handed them over to him during a plenary debate on …

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Founder of MeRA25 and former finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis handed the transcripts of his Eurogroup recordings in 2015 to the Speaker of the Greek Parliament. The latter refused to accept them, saying “I return as unacceptable Varoufakis’ letter.” The former Finance Minister handed to Parliament Speaker Costa Tasoulas on Friday …

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Former coalition partner of the SYRIZA government has claimed that ex Φinance Minister Yanis Varoufakis had agreed with German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble on Grexit. “Greece would receive 80 billion euros and leave the eurozone,” Panos Kammenos said on Monday night in an interview with ANT1 TV. “Varoufakis had agreed with …

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Leader of opposition party MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis, has officially asked the Greek Parliament to adopt a resolution for an immediate ceasefire on the Turkish-Syrian border, a no-fly zone over north Syria and the immediate dispatch of humanitarian aid. In a letter submitted to the Parliament Speaker on Wednesday, Varoufakis wrote …

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Secretary General of MeRA25 and former finance minister, Yanis Vourfakis, supports the closure of the reception and identification center of Moria on the island of Lesvos in the aftermath of the tragedy on Sunday. In a relevant question submitted to Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the Parliament, Varoufakis requested the …

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Former finance minister and founder of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis, is considering to upload on internet his secret recordings from the Eurogroup meetings while he was negotiating for Greece in the first half of 2015. “I’m thinking of uploading the recordings to the internet. After all, I was the only one …

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Behind the closed doors Europe, a man is trying for six months to save his country. A Greek tragedy in modern times with former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The trailer of the film “Adults In The Room” was released, just hours before the official world premiere at the Venice Film …

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“Unless the full prepayment of business tax is abolished, the recession, the migration of people and businesses will not stop and real investments will not arrive,” former finance minister and leader of MeRA25, MP Yanis Varoufakis has said. H epointed out that “New Democracy and SYRIZA are tied up to …

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Former finance minister and MeRA25 lawmaker Yanis Varoufakis told Greek media that he will seek the legal way against the French police and he asks for a formal apology from the French police. Earlier on Sunday, he had accused French police of “violent” behavior over a passport check at Paris’ …

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Former SYRIZA finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Greeks to vote either his own party MeRA25 or communist KKE. “it a vote of resistance against the 4th memorandum,” he stressed. In an interview with state news agency amna, Varoufakis said that “even if we all in MeRA25 voted SYRIZA, New …

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Klaus Regling is speaking “nonsense” said Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos adding that if the head of the European Stability Mechanism were his student, he would be flunked. In an interview with Open TV on Thursday, Tsakalotos referred among others to Regling’s claim that the time when Yanis Varoufakis was …

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Ambitious “Europe reformer” and enfant terrible of Greek and European finances Yanis Varoufakis and his party MeRA25 narrowly missed a seat in the European Parliament. From Monday to Tuesday afternoon, the live results transmitted via the website of the Greek Interior Ministry were showing that MeRA25 had collected 3.1% of …

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Director Costas Gavras turned the Kotzias square in the historical center of Athens into a setting for his latest film “Adults in the Room” based on the book of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis Part of the shooting about the Greek crisis in the first half of 2015 took place …

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The Ministry of Digital Policy approved a grant for the film “Adults in the Room” to be filmed by famous director Costas Gavras and is the cinematic adaption of the book by ex finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The amount of 630,000 euros is a grant for director Costas Gavras. The …

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American activist Pamela Andersonanis  gave a “Hollywood flair” to the European elections campaign of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and his party DiEm25. The campaign across Europe named “European Spring” started in Brussels on Monday. As secretary of MEP25 and co-founder of DiEM25, Yanis Varoufakis pointed out “today we are …

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Famous Greek director Costas Gavras has started his new project: the filming of “Adults in the Room,” the book of former fiance minister Yanis Varoufakis about the fatal first half of 2015, that granted Greece another bailout program. “The history of a country and its people trapped in a power …

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The European Union’s top General Court denied access to a European Central Bank (ECB) document which underpinned its decision to freeze vital funding to Greek banks in 2015, that resulted in forcing Athens to impose capital controls. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and German left-wing parliamentarian Fabio De Masi(Die …

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Pamela Anderson, former Baywatch star, has criticized Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for ignoring people’s will during the famous Greek referendum of 2015 and declared to be a fan of Yanis Varoufakis And she has learned a Greek word with a powerful meaning: OXI – No. “I admire the Greek people …

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