Amid high-level brinkmanship by Greece's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, the euro zone officials negotiating the next tranche of bailout funds to cash-strapped Athens are getting frustrated. Earlier this week, a participant of the April 24 meeting in Riga, Latvia, called Varoufakis was a "time-waster, a gambler, and an amateur." And now eight participants talked to.Bloomberg about how the game theorist's brash style made the talks maddening. “All the ministers told him: this can’t go on,” Spanish politician Luis de Guindos told Bloomberg. “The feeling among the 18 was exactly the same. There was no kind of divergence.” Varoufakis, for his part, sees the political turmoil differently: He tweeted a line from US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 speech on the eve of a national election. FDR, 1936: "They are unanimous in their hate for me; and I welcome their hatred." A quotation close to my heart (& reality) these days — Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) April 26, 2015 SEE ALSO: This Greek game-theory guru is the most interesting man in the world Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Here's the most looked-up word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary
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