The desire to unconventionality led him to overcome even the new prime minister greek Alexis Tsipras, notoriously ‘allergic’ to tie. And so today Yannis Varoufakis, 53, economist cry, it is presented to the presidential palace to receive his appointment as finance minister with his shirt untucked. If this is intended to overcome Tsipras in informality, he succeeded but, in the eyes of the ‘normal’ people, you were wrong. Watching him on television, many Greeks “over 50″ you are ashamed of what seemed a useless charade pro-proletarian by an economist who earn thousands of dollars a month. “When I saw him – he told ANSA a foreign diplomat who asked to remain anonymous – I thought it was a homeless man who had managed to sneak the swearing in. Who knows how it will look when you dress will go to Brussels. And laugh like Greece. “
Brain extremely bright, Varoufakis is a respected economist who teaches at the Uni versity of Austin (Texas), but does not shine modesty and it showed again today when he tweeted to the world the news of their own appointment as new Minister of Finance several hours early that same Tsipras officially announced the list of members of his government.
hair cut very short on one face of actor and icy gaze from ‘tombeur de femmes’ – as it appears in her profile photo Twitter Varoufakis (who also has Australian citizenship) is known in Greece and abroad as a bitter opponent of the Memorandum signed by the previous Greek governments with the troika (EU, ECB and IMF), ie the representatives of the country’s international creditors. He has written several books on the global crisis and the European economy including ‘The Globalising Wall’ and ‘The Global Minotaur’, which compares the role of the US economy since the 70s against the rest of the world to the figure of the mythical Minotaur that broke in pieces tho se who ended up in the maze.
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