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This article was published on July 6, 2015 at 16:15.
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“The message delivered yesterday is something that will be remembered. It will be written in the collective memory of Europe “: it was said Euclid Tsakalotos receiving deliveries by Yanis Varoufakis the finance ministry in Athens. The new minister also added: “We would not have done all this without Varoufakis. Everyone should thank. “

In the inaugural address Tsakalotos explained that he could not accept a solution at the negotiating table is not viable for Greece. After the referendum, the Greeks want to make it clear that “you deserve better.” “We hope to continue the discussion” with the creditors and “believe that something can change in Europe,” he added stressing that this “is one of the difficult moment in Greek history.”

Euclid Tsakalotos is the new Minister of Finance greek. His name, already circulated in the morning, is now official. Born in 1960, the new minister was born in Rotterdam, and like its predecessor Yanis Varoufakis, is an economist who has studied mainly abroad, in particular in Oxford. Member of the Central Committee of Syriza, deputy since 2012, is professor of economics at the University of Athens. He returned to live in Greece in 1993, and has a slight foreign accent when speaking greek. Tsakalotos, like Varoufakis, use very twitter, and believes that the greek debt – to be restored – is the heart of the Greek crisis. He presents his arguments in a less effervescent who resigned Yanis, but is no less drastic and radical criticism of the economic recipes that have helped create the global financial crisis.

An economist known political elite Westminster, British newspapers describe the new head of Finance Hellenic as “the shadow minister” until today. In short, his appointment would un’ufficializzazione a reality already tested in recent weeks, since – it was the end of April – Varoufakis had been de facto commissioner by Prime Tsipras, who had joined the then Deputy Minister for International Economic Relations, which today takes the reins of Finance.

In contrast to his predecessor, not an outsider than Syriza, in whose ranks campaigning for almost a decade. He was an MP in parliament in Athens in 2012, but is considered more an academic worked in politics that a politician to work in economy. Author or co-author of six books, the last published in 2012, already looking for the key to the problem in the complicated Greek crisis, with the suggestive title “The crucible of resistance: Greece, Eurozone and the Global Economic Crisis” .

The theory that guides the reasoning is that his country is paying the price not only of economic turmoil, but a crisis of democracy in the eurozone. That said, the new Finance Minister greek is a staunch defender of the need to keep Greece in the single currency. And to seek solutions “with international flavor.” He will, therefore, have to handle the new negotiations with creditors.

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