Yanis Varoufakis

Former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis has confirmed he will run for prime minister in the nation’s next general election. "It sounds like a nightmare to become the prime minister of Greece...But then again, it's a dirty job. Somebody...

The six-month reign of Yanis Varoufakis at the Greek Finance Ministry in the first half of 2015 cost the country about €200 billion ($246 billion), Thomas Wieser, former president of the Eurogroup Working Group has claimed. Speaking at the Delphi Economic...

Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has revealed that the new political party he is forming in Greece will be called MeRA25. Making the announcement on his personal website, he said that MeRA25 (an acronym for European Realist Disobedience Front), will...

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has announced his intention to create a new political party. In a tweet on Thursday marking the third anniversary of SYRIZA in power, Varoufakis said that that "three years ago today the Greeks decided...

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has revealed he accused Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of being “totally stupid” in accepting a demand by Greece’s creditors for big primary surpluses. During an interview with Greece’s Parapolitika radio, Varoufakis said when he...

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, and a German parliamentarian, are suing the European Central Bank, so as to gain access to a document underpinning the ECB's decision to freeze vital funding to Greek banks in 2015. That move left...

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis reiterated that he had never threatened creditors with a Grexit; and announced his decision to run in the European elections with his party; DIEM25. On Wednesday night's interview on Alpha TV; Varoufakis spoke again about...

Former Greek Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is notorious for challenging EU officials over the Greek bailout programme and Wolfgang Schaeuble's interview on Skai TV last night opened another chapter in the public duel between the two men. In an open...

Appearing on the TV program BBC This Week, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis launched a savage attack on the EU, claiming it is destined to fail because the euro is doomed. The BBC’s Andrew Neil asked him what he...

Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis dismissed reports in the Greek media that he will stand as a candidate in Germany for the European elections in 2019. The leader of the DiEM25 movement claimed that his Euractiv news site interview, was...