Yanis Varoufakis spent a little over six months as Greece's minister of finance
In the second extract from his book: Adults in the Room : My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment, Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister, describes two very different encounters with the ruling French elite, as well as the night that Greece rejected austerity - only for prime minister Alexis Tsipras to submit to even harsher creditor demands.
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Emmanuel Macron's gesture
Varoufakis clashed frequently with European finance ministers, but with one colleague he struck up a strong relationship - that was Emmanuel Macron, then the French economy minister, now on course to be the next president of France.
Emmanuel Macron texted me at around 6pm on Sunday, June 28 to inform me that he was attempting...
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