Yanis Varoufakis, a self-described “erratic Marxist,” is the new finance minister of Greece under the just-elected Syriza-led government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. In the coming weeks, Varoufakis will be the point man in negotiations between Greece and the rest of the European Union governments over how — and if — Greece will be able to restructure its debt to give the austerity-battered country “a chance to breathe again,” as he puts it, in an interview with the New York Times.
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Click below to watch the speech Varoufakis delivered at the 6th Subversive Festival in Zagreb, Croatia.
