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Enfant terrible of euro-economics and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis reloaded his gun and shot: Profits from the European Central Bank should be used for a European Poverty Fund. Speaking at an event of his party DiEM25 in Thessaloniki, he said about the “New Deal in Europe and the …

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Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis claimed on Monday that it was billionaire George Soros who demanded that he was sacked from the Greek government in 2015. In an interview with private Skai TV, the former minister and founder of DiEM25 said George Soros phoned Alexis Tsipras in July 2015 and …

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A nationalist and quasi-fascist force is rising up in Europe, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has warned. In an exclusive interview with Euronews’ new Raw Politics programme, he said the continent was heading for a return to 1930s fascism. “We are going to unleash demonic political forces that will …

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Greece should have been grateful to European aid and kept its mouth shut, the former chief of Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem said more or less in an interview on Saturday. He has clearly not recovered yet from the traumatic experience with former Greek finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. At the same time …

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“Greece was never bailed out – it remains a debtor’s prison and the EU won’t let go of the keys,” writes former SYRIZA finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on the occasion of creditors and the Greke government to have cheered the exit from bailout. Punitive conditions attached to the ‘rescue’ package …

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As Greece leaves the three-year bailout program, former financial minister Yanis Varoufakis came up with a radical solution. He reportedly urged Athens to ditch the euro and return to drachma. In an article with the title “Ditch the euro and bring back the drachma” the Times quoted Varoufakis as saying …

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Controversial Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis proposes that Greece exploits hydrocarbon reserves with half the Middle East as well as with Turkey. In an article posted on daily Efimerida Ton Syntakton, the former finance minister sees the share of hydrocarbon reserves as an opportunity for peace in the region. jointly exploiting …

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Thousands of Greeks joined the Workers’ May Day and marched through the streets of Athens, Piraeus, Thessaloniki and other cities and towns across Greece. The workers’ union of communist party KKE, PAME, opened the traditional strike protests with central slogan against imperialism and “Red May Day.” Communists against Imperialism with …

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Former finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he targets the office of the prime minister at the next elections in Greece. In an interview with TRT World, Varoufakis said he will run for prime minister in the country’s next general elections. TRT World’s Imran Garda spoke to the anti-austerity campaigner at length …

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Greek former finance minister and anti-austerity maverick Yanis Varoufakis on Monday launched a new party. This is part of a movement in several European countries to contest EU elections next year. Pledging to “bring realistic hope” to Greece, Varoufakis said the grassroots pro-European movement is composed of “people of the …

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Former finance minister and controversial political figure Yanis Varoufakis revealed the name of the political party with which the pan-European movement DiEM25 will contest elections in Greece. And the name of DiEM25’s Greek political party is…. We have white smoke! DiEM25’s members overwhelmingly approved the name of our new Greek …

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He couldn’t help and couldn’t hide his political schadenfreude over the left-wing government of Greece. The man who rejected any early attempt by SYRIZA for relaxed austerity measures, the outgoing chairman of the non-institutional Euro Working Group that has exercised his full non-authorized power to raise or drawn Greece,  the …

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Former SYRIZA finance minister Yanis Varoufakis announced that he will present his political party in Greece in two months from now, on March 26th. The new party will be related to his pan-European movement DiEM25. Varoufakis made the announcement on Twitter on the occasion of 3 years of  his former …

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Controversial former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on Friday again lashed out at his former comrades in the first Tsipras government over the first half of 2015.  Speaking on an Athens radio station, Varoufakis was again scathing in his criticism of Tsipras and his successor at the finance ministry, Euclid …

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Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and German left-wing parliamentarian Fabio De Masi (Die Linke) are suing the European Central Bank to gain access to a document underpinning the ECB’s decision to freeze vital funding to Greek banks in 2015 that resulted in forcing Athens to impose cpaital controls. That …

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Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis revealed that he will run in the next parliamentary elections in Greece. Speaking to private ANT1 TV magazine Kalimera Ellada, Varoufakis said that his pan-European party Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) will held a conference in Greece in order to prepare for the new …

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Obsessed to the bone against the Greece’s left-wing government. In his last – and probably first – interview to a Greek television channel, former German Finance Minister Wolfgang “Austerity” Schaeuble poured his poison drop by drop on open wounds and enjoyed for one more time his unerring attitude and his …

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Famous film director Costas Gavras plans to bring the book of Yanis Varoufakis’ “Adults in the Room” to the big screen. Gavras who is famous for his political films said in a letter to the former finance minister that he felt inspired to turn the book into a film as …

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In the Greek edition of his book “Adults in the Room,” Yanis Varoufakis made new revelations for his term in Finance Ministry in 2015. According to introduction of the book, Varoufakis’ wife, Danae Stratou videotaped telephone conversations he had at that time. “In a book where so much depends on …

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Monday evening in Patras. One day after the German elections. Scenarios about the removal of Wolfgang Schaeuble from the finance ministry circulate in full speed. Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks in front of an audience that came at an event organized by the pan-European political movement he had founded, …

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