The coming out party for Greece’s new government didn’t go off as planned. Freshly appointed Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who was sworn in just two weeks ago, bombed in London, Berlin, and Brussels. He’d arrived with a plan for Europe to give Greece a three-month holiday, during which it would abrogate the terms of the current 200 billion euro ($265 billion) bailout, make no economic reforms, insult the International Monetary Fund and the Germans who have been driving eurozone policy, and get better terms for its debt.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, and Varoufakis, also suggested Greece would …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
