By Philippe Wojazer BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Greece's new finance minister clearly wanted to avoid alienating his European colleagues as had his fast-talking predecessor. After "update on political situation", he appeared to refer to the referendum with "Ref, of course ... rejection of instit(ution)s proposals ... mostly I think on viability grounds." "No triumphalism." It seemed to work. Several officials found him easier to deal with than Yanis Varoufakis, a fellow Marxist academic economist who resigned after Sunday's referendum, saying Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras felt talks would go more smoothly without him.
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