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“... Together with Podemos in Spain, they would usher in a new era of social justice across Europe. Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s finance minister and the personification of the rebellion, was in Syntagma Square that night. In Adults in the Room, his book chronicling his five months in office, Varoufakis gives his ...”

“... fifty of his MPs voted against him. In the event six abstained and 32 voted against him, including Yanis Varoufakis, who had resigned as finance minister after the referendum, because, he said, ‘some Eurogroup participants’ had expressed a desire for his ‘“absence” from its meetings’. Now parliament had effectively declared the result of the ...”

“... one in six Greeks was going hungry on a daily basis. What Syriza’s unorthodox finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, wanted was debt relief on a scale that would make possible a sustained economic recovery. His posing of rational economic arguments against the conservative ideology of the Eurogroup won him an international following, but the ...”

“... army, the police, the justice system and Greece’s oligarchs at home and abroad. In interviews Yanis Varoufakis, the finance minister, calls these the country’s ‘dark forces’. This is the deep state, which crystallised during the Civil War as the right’s tool for stamping out communism. The parents of many Syriza ministers were victims of the ...”

“... so. By contrast, austerity has come to be experienced as an endless, pointless repetition of pain (Yanis Varoufakis described Greece’s bailout conditions as ‘fiscal waterboarding’). With each announcement that austerity will have to be extended because spending cuts have failed once more to reduce the government deficit (just as most economists ...”

“... Antonis Samaras hadn’t miscalculated at the beginning of the year and called an early election, Yanis Varoufakis would still be giving TED talks about Europeans not being morally worthy of a true federation. Samaras’s risky move wasn’t entirely out of character. Although most will remember him as the man who, after the Greek elections of ...”

“... But Syriza and its supporters misjudged their antagonist. When the then Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and others speculated that they were being waterboarded for the sake of whipping French fiscal policy into line, they fatally underestimated the political antagonism against their own party. Syriza had counted on the supposed values of the ...”

“... to study the trading economy that had evolved inside its games. The person who got the job was Yanis Varoufakis. Another fun fact: the in-game economy inside Valve’s game Team Fortress 2 is based on hats.) A genre closely adjacent to MOBA is the battle royale, which is derived from shooters – games where you run around with a gun shooting people ...”

“... Britain. In September 2015 Lafontaine popped up again, this time in Paris on a platform alongside Yanis Varoufakis, calling for a Plan B for Europe, a Europe beyond the euro.In the German Lexit camp, alongside Lafontaine and his one-time state secretary in the Finance Ministry, Heiner Flassbeck, the most prominent voice has belonged to the sociologist ...”