Two days after the Greek elections, Alexis Tsipras formally announced the names that make up the new government in Greece. The highlight is Yanis Varoufakis, professor of economics at the University of Athens, which will be the Minister of Finance, as the had already announced an Irish radio and your own blog.
“It has not been announced, but as I am talking to my Irish friends can say what will happen today,” Yanis Varoufakis confirmed the Irish Newstalk radio.
The economist also used his blog to confirm that the new finance minister, warning his readers that now write less regularly, but promising to compensate them with privileged information.
In post entitled “Finance Minister slows blogging , but does not abolish, “Yanis Varoufakis writes that was advised to end the blog. “My plan is to challenge this advice. I will continue to write on the blog, even if it is normally considered irresponsible a minister of Finance enter into such gross forms of communication. Of course, my post will be less frequent and shorter. But I hope to compensate with opinions, comments and details more delicious. “
The finish this first post as finance minister, the economist argues that” to regain hope “we need to change the habits of” dark past “:” Keep an open line with the outside world can be a small step in that direction, “concludes the new minister
Now in statements to the Irish radio, Varoufakis left a message to other Europeans.. “ As a next finance minister, I can assure that we will not seek the Eurogroup a good solution for Greek taxpayers and bad for Irish taxpayers, Slovaks, Germans, French and Italians.” Critical entry of Greece in the single currency in 2001, believes that the exit from the euro would now be very harmful to the economy, but ensures that austerity is not the passport that will allow Athens to remain in the euro area.
The new Minister of Finance, 53, was one of 74 foreign personalities who signed the manifesto for the restructuring of Portuguese debt, launched in March 2014 by several political (Manuela Ferreira Leite Francisco Louçã), businessmen, trade unionists, academics and constitutionalists.
Varoufakis prepared with Stuart Holland, one Modest Proposal for Solving the Eurozone crisis , supported, among others by Jacques Delors, Giuliano Amato, Felipe González and Guy Verhofstadt, to only mention the former responsible Popular politicians. Debt restructuring is one of the pillars of publication.
Catalogued by Guardian as “radical economist” Varoufakis t to underscore its opposition to the austerity, which has already qualified as “ waterboarding budget” – waterboarding is a torture technique used by the US military prison in Guantanamo that simulates drowning .
“We will destroy the basis on which it was built, decade after decade, a system, a network, which viciously sucks all the energy and all the economic power of all other people in society, “he told British television Channel 4 prior to the elections, setting priorities as the dismantling of the privileges of the oligarchs, a response to the” humanitarian crisis “in which he lives most of the population and the renegotiation of the public debt.
frequent commentator on social networks and on television, known both for its sharp phrases as the preference for jeans and colored shirts, Varoufakis studied in the UK and taught in Australia and the United States, having just left the position it occupied at the University of Texas on the eve of elections, at the invitation of Tsipras to apply to Parliament, reminds Reuters.
Recently it was defined as “an atheist theologian cloistered in a monastery of the Middle Ages,” a metaphor of his opposition to economic theories advocating budgetary rigor and the liberalization of the economy as a remedy for the crisis. The recipe, wrote on his blog when he announced the nomination to Parliament, no go “a cynical transfer of losses from the banks to the shoulders of the weakest taxpayers.”
coalition partner gets the defense minister
Already after the deliberate leakage Varoufakis information, the names of all the ministers of the government led by Alexis Tsipras were announced, highlighting the existence a deputy prime minister, a post he will be occupied by Giannis Dragasakis. According to the El País , will oversee economic areas and it will be responsible for dialogue with the troika of international creditors.
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