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Interviewed by Chris Newlands for the Financial News – 19 June 2017

21/06/2017 by

It is no surprise that Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, turns up to our interview without a tie. The 56-year-old famously arrived at Downing Street in 2015 for a meeting with the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, with his shirt untucked.

More surprising is that the left-wing economist, who led negotiations with creditors during the 2015 Greek government-debt crisis, is wearing a suit jacket.

The jacket is not for me, however. I meet Varoufakis almost immediately after he gives a speech to a room packed full of more than 500 people – a room not only made up almost exclusively of investment managers and bankers but
one housed within Berlin’s prestigious InterContinental Hotel, in a country where Varoufakis had become an arch enemy of the taxpayer for his role in the Greek bailouts…

[For the rest of the interview, click here for the Financial News’ site or here for a pdf]

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