Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015, when he resigned. Varoufakis was also a Syriza Member of the Hellenic Parliamentfor Athens B from January to September 2015...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth24 March 1961
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.
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I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
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The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.
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Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.
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Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.
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If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.
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Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.
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I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country
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We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.
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Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.
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Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.