Finance Minister
A question of respect (or lack thereof)… – the Greek veto over Russia that never was
, 29/01/2015
On the first day in our ministries, the power of the media to distort hit me again. The world’s press was full of reports on how the SYRIZA government’s first foreign policy ‘move’ was to veto fresh sanctions on Russia. Now, I am not qualified to speak on foreign affairs but, nonetheless, I must share […]
Talking to Phillip Adams, on the ABC’s LNL
, 29/01/2015
On my first day on the ‘job’, as Greece’s Finance Minister, I took a few minutes off to talk to my favourite voice and intellect on the wireless.
Finance Ministry slows blogging down but ends it not
, 27/01/2015
The time to put up or shut up has, I have been told, arrived. My plan is to defy such advice. To continue blogging here even though it is normally considered irresponsible for a Finance Minister to indulge in such crass forms of communication. Naturally, my blog posts will become more infrequent and shorter. But […]
Heard the news? Greece's finance minister is no extremist – THE TELEGRAPH
, 27/01/2015
Yanis Varoufakis: Greece’s future finance minister is no extremist The man touted as frontunner to be Syriza’s finance minister is not the socialist firebrand which one might expect By Peter Spence, Economics Correspondent 3:07PM GMT 26 Jan 2015 Syriza, a hard left party, that outrightly rejects EU-imposed austerity, has given Greek politics its greatest electoral […]