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Yanis Varoufakis is a political economist and author of dual Greek-Australian nationality.

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Greece has been, as it always is, the weakest link in the organism and shows the biggest symptoms of disease.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

We've chosen Berlin precisely because nothing can change in a progressive direction without the full participation of Germany in our European endeavors.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

We had been inclined not to call a referendum, it would be very difficult to avoid it being presented mainly by the media as a referendum on the euro. And we didn't want that.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

But, you know, in some sense it's hopeless in any case ... I mean, the new terms are even worse, but the terms that they were being offered before were still not going to work. So, I, you know -- I may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

I was made aware of a certain ‘preference’ by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners’, for my... ‘absence’ from its meetings; an idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

I was made aware of a certain 'preference' by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted 'partners', for my... 'absence' from its meetings; an idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Company News

The Greek government will make use of all our legal rights.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Company News

Greater austerity is being demanded from an economy that is on its knees, owing to the heftiest dose of austerity any country has ever had to endure in peacetime, no offer of debt relief. No plan for boosting investment. And certainly, as of yet, no 'Speech of Hope' for this fallen people.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

Seven decades later, it is my country, Greece, that needs such a chance.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

Over July-August the finance ministry will have to borrow 6.7 billion euros from our partners in one way or the other to repay bonds from the SMP program, about 27 billion euros of those bonds are still left, which should be repaid in the next months or years. These bonds should be pushed back to the distant future. This is clear.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Business

I started a dialogue with them, saying that I wanted to hear them out, even if that meant that I would be hit, after 15 minutes of a tense but non-violent talk spirits calmed.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

He's creating a number of tensions so that can certainly help the negotiations - but it doesn't change the substance at all. The Greek government ... must finally decide on serious reforms to put the economy back on track.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Business

We agreed that an agreement will be difficult but it will happen and it will happen quickly because that is the only option we have.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Mergers & Acquisitions

It's not about money, it's a moral question. I would be happy if it was off the table.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Business

We want a successful Europe, a successful currency union.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Business

Our intention is to do everything necessary to pay back every single euro.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Business

The International Monetary Fund repayments of course we are going to prioritize, we are not going to be the first country not to meet our obligations to International Monetary Fund.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

We don't want to sell the family silver of the Greek state at insultingly low prices.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Company News

We will continue to deliberate, in order to enhance the chances and actually achieve a very good outcome for the average European.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

I have no doubt that, within the next 48 hours Europe, is going to come together and we shall find the phrasing that is necessary so that we can submit it and move on to do the real work that is necessary.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

It was my ambition to agree on the steps to take the next couple of days so we could spend them well and make more progress between now and Monday, unfortunately we've not been able to do that so we will continue our talks on Monday and move on from there.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

We understand each other much, much better now than we did this morning, so I think this is a major achievement because, you know, from understanding, the agreement follows.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

It's not that the current reform program is to be discarded altogether. I would say that 60-70 percent of what in that list consists of moves and measures that we should want to take ourselves.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

We outlined to him the main objectives of this government, which is to reform Greece in a way that has never been tried before and with a determination that was always absent, we also stated categorically that the debt-deflationary cycle in which Greece finds itself is detrimental to all efforts to reform Greece.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Business

We outlined to him the main objectives of this government which is to reform Greece in a way that has never been tried before and with a determination that was always absent, we also stated categorically that the debt-deflationary cycle in which Greece finds itself is detrimental to all efforts to reform Greece.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

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