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This article was published on July 6, 2015 at 7:52.
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The Minister of Finance greek, Yanis Varoufakis, resigned. It has been learned from the Twitter profile of Varoufakis, where the minister wrote: “Minister No More!”.
Varoufakis said in a post on his blog that he had left office to allow the Prime Minister , Alexis Tsipras, to tighten more ‘easily an agreement with creditors. “Immediately after the announcement of the referendum results, I was informed of a certain preference of some members of the Eurogroup and of” partner “assorted for my …” absence “from their leaders, an idea that the prime minister judged potentially useful to enable it to reach an agreement – writes Varoufakis – for this reason today I leave the Ministry of Finance. “
“I consider it my duty to help Alexis Tsipras to exploit as it deems appropriate capital that the greek people has ensured the referendum yesterday,” she added the former minister, “and I will carry with pride the disgust of creditors “.L’euro resumes share on other currencies after the surprise announcement of the resignation of Finance Minister greek Yanis Varoufakis.
At the start summit to decide successor Varoufakis
Hello and welcome to Athens a “summit of political leaders” Greeks on the appointment of the successor to Yanis Varoufakis, who left this morning the post of Minister of Finance. This was reported by Reuters a spokesman for the Greek Government. It ‘s not clear whether the expression’ summit of political leaders “is meant the general staff of Syriza or an enlarged meeting with representatives of other parties in view of a possible reshuffle.
The Greek newspapers suggests as possible successors Varoufakis Economy Minister George Stathakis, or the chief negotiator Euclid Tsakalotos, representative intransigent wing of Syriza and very close to the positions of the former finance minister.
Euro rising after the resignation of Varoufakis
The single currency is trading at 1.1070 after dropping to 1,099 in the night (1.1105 at the close of Friday ‘ ). The euro also exchanged 135.5 yen (136.27) while the relationship between the dollar and the yen stood at 122.48 (122.7). The resignation of Varoufakis with a view to relaunching the negotiations were well received by the market and are contributing to the strengthening of the euro.
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