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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Greek finance minister tests EU's ways of winning friends and influencing them

Greece's new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, heads to a Eurogroup finance ministers meeting on Wednesday to ask for something almost no one there wants to give - at its most basic, a new debt agreement without the strings of austerity. He has been dubbed "Superstar" by Greek media and even become something of a hearthrob in Germany's media. Noisy confrontation usually leads to resistance and ...


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