"Böhmermann co-hosted with Charlotte Roche in 2012. In February 2015, Böhmermann's late-night show Neo Magazin Royale created the song and music video ""V for Varoufakis"". The title references ""V for Vendetta"", which introduced the Guy Fawkes mask as a symbol of rebellion. In addition to poking fun at Germans generally, the video explores the German fascination with Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who is known for being articulate, physically attractive and having a stylish, if unconventional fashion sense, while also portraying Greece's dependence on German money during the Greek government-debt crisis. Unlike most content on the ZDF program ""Neo Magazin"
"believes that the Greek and European leaders co-produced the Greek government-debt crisis, and that the agreement reached in summer 2015 between Greece and its creditors, notably driven by François Hollande, will not help Greece in dealing with the debt, while at the same time criticizing the International Monetary Fund. In June 2016, he criticized the austerity policies imposed on Greece, considering them to be unsustainable and calling for the joint establishment of ""fiscal and financial solidarity mechanisms"" and a mechanism for restructuring the debt of Eurozone member states. Yanis Varoufakis, Minister of Finance in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras,"
"Yanis Varoufakis Ioannis Georgiou ""Yanis"" Varoufakis (, ; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015, when he resigned. Varoufakis was a Syriza member of the Hellenic Parliament (MP) for Athens B from January to September 2015. Varoufakis was born in Athens in 1961 and attended Moraitis School before moving to the United Kingdom, where he studied mathematics at the University of Essex before attaining a postgraduate degree in mathematical statistics at University of Birmingham and a PhD in economics at Essex. He began"
"the citizens of Greece voted decisively (a 61% to 39% decision with 62.5% voter turnout) to reject a referendum that would have given Greece more bailout help from other EU members in return for increased austerity measures. As a result of this vote, Greece's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis stepped down on 6 July. Greece was the first developed country not to make a payment to the IMF on time, in 2015 (payment was made with a 20-day delay). Eventually, Greece agreed on a third bailout package in August 2015. Between 2009 and 2017 the Greek government debt rose from €300"
"users and media condemned the tweet. People wondered if Kammenos had intentionally uploaded the controversial tie photo in a clumsy but clear attempt to link the agreement with the promise of prime minister Alexis Tsipras to wear a tie when the country returns to growth. In September 2018, Greek journalists detained over an article that alleges mishandling of European Union funds meant to improve conditions in migrant hotspots across the country. The journalists were detained following a complaint by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, whose ministry is handling the EU funding. The article published alleged some of the recipients of EU"
"""the invisible negotiator"" by some of the Athens media due to being notoriously media-shy. The ""Wall Street Journal"" described him as a ""constructive interlocutor"". On 28 August 2015, Chouliarakis was sworn in as the interim Minister of Finance in the Caretaker Cabinet of Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, replacing Euclid Tsakalotos. His appointment was praised by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the president of the Eurogroup, who said: ""[Chouliarakis] knows what he's doing because he was top man in the ministry for the past year and half."" Tsakalotos also praised his successor, saying: ""I am certain that with his work, as always, and with his devotion"
"minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement. For this reason I am leaving the Ministry of Finance today."" Varoufakis was succeeded as Minister of Finance by Euclid Tsakalotos. Tsakalotos in turn left his role as Alternate Minister of International Economic Affairs, leaving the position vacant. Nikolaos Chountis, the Alternate Minister of European Affairs, resigned on 13 July 2015, three days before the debate on the first round of measures in the tenth austerity package began in the Hellenic Parliament. He also resigned from his parliamentary seat. Chountis subsequently took up the post of Member of"
"counterpart Matteo Renzi in Rome. They held a joint press conference expressing concerns about austerity measures imposed by the Juncker Commission and stated that economic growth is the only way to exit from the crisis. After the press conference, Renzi presented Tsipras with an Italian tie as a gift. Tsipras, who is notable for never wearing ties, thanked Renzi and said that he would wear the gift in celebration when Greece had successfully renegotiated the austerity measures. On 20 February, the Eurogroup came to an agreement with Greece to extend the Greek bailout for four months. Tsipras had also announced"
"that they represented a transfer of losses from the private banks to Greece's and Europe's taxpayers. In his view, the 20 February 2015 Eurogroup agreement that he negotiated, ""was an excellent opportunity to move forward."" However, the troika of lenders were not happy to let the new Greek government change the previous terms of the agreement, nor to agree to a debt restructuring. Varoufakis claims that, soon after the extension was granted at the end of February, the troika reneged on its alleged promise to consider a new fiscal and reform program for Greece, demanding of the Greek government that"
"of Texas at Austin. Varoufakis has published a number of texts on economics and game theory, such as ""The Global Minotaur"". In January 2015, Varoufakis was appointed Greek Minister of Finance, and led negotiations with Greece's creditors during the Greek government-debt crisis. However, he failed to reach an agreement with the European troika, leading to the 2015 Greek bailout referendum. While the referendum rejected the troika bailout terms, the day following the referendum Varoufakis resigned as Minister of Finance and was replaced by Euclid Tsakalotos. On 24 August, Varoufakis voted against the third bailout package, and in the ensuing September"
"Islamic State of the Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. On 3 February 2015, Renzi received newly elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of the Coalition of the Radical Left in Rome. The two leaders held a joint press conference expressing concerns about austerity measures imposed by the European Commission and stated that economic growth is the only way to solve the crisis. After the press conference, Renzi presented Tsipras with an Italian tie as a gift. Tsipras, who was notable for refusing to ever wear a tie, thanked Renzi and said he would wear the gift in celebration after Greece had"
"Alternate Ministers are directly assigned special responsibilities and powers by the prime minister, including: Full ministers however retain: Deputy ministers are assigned with responsibilities and powers by the prime minister and the full minister they report to. Yanis Varoufakis, the Minister of Finance, resigned on 6 July 2015, following the 'No' vote in the Greek bailout referendum. In a blog post on his website, Varoufakis wrote: ""Soon after the announcement of the referendum results, I was made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners’, for my... ‘absence’ from its meetings; an idea that the prime"
"5 July. On 5 July 2015, the bailout referendum took place. Varoufakis had campaigned vigorously in favour of the 'No' vote, against the united support for the 'Yes' of Greece's media. To make his position clear, he declared on television that he would resign as finance minister if Greeks voted 'Yes'. The outcome of the vote was a resounding 61.5 percent vote in favour of 'No'. Varoufakis went on television, soon after the result was announced, and declared that the government was determined to honour this new mandate for a different agreement with its creditors. However, a few hours later,"
"of external assistance, Lagarde said she was ""not in the negotiation or renegotiation mood at all."" A year later, though, with her own organization conceding that its ""rescue"" package for Greece had fallen short of what was required, Lagarde—having previously said that Greece's debt burden was ""sustainable""—decided that Greece would not recover unless its debt was written off in a meaningful way. According to Yanis Varoufakis, the combative former finance minister of Greece, Lagarde and others at the top of the IMF have been quite sympathetic behind closed doors. As the crisis peaked again in summer 2015, Lagarde's organization made"
"of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism in the cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. Stathakis was named as a potential replacement for Yanis Varoufakis after he resigned as Minister for Finance on 6 July 2015, following the resounding 'No' vote in the Greek bailout referendum. He was later appointed as the economy minister. During his tenure it was revealed that he failed to report thirty-eight properties and €1.8m in his assets declaration of 2011. A parliamentary committee is investigating the revelations. Stathakis is married to Themis Geckou and has two children. Giorgos Stathakis Giorgos Stathakis (; born 8 November 1953) is a"
"my own view, that I honed back in 2010, that this country must stop extending and pretending, we must stop taking on new loans pretending that we've solved the problem, when we haven't; when we have made our debt even less sustainable on condition of further austerity that even further shrinks the economy; and shifts the burden further onto the have nots, creating a humanitarian crisis. It's something I'm not going to accept, I'm not going to be party to."" In a 16 July teleconference with private investors that was later made public, Varoufakis described a five-month clandestine project he"
"power. In 2005 and 2006, Varoufakis travelled extensively with his partner, artist Danae Stratou, along seven dividing lines around the world (in Palestine, Ethiopia-Eritrea, Kosovo, Belfast, Cyprus, Kashmir and the US–Mexico border). Stratou produced the installation ""CUT: 7 dividing lines,"" while Varoufakis wrote texts that then became a political-economic account of these divisions, entitled ""The Globalizing Wall."" In 2010 Stratou and Varoufakis founded the project ""Vital Space."" Yanis Varoufakis Ioannis Georgiou ""Yanis"" Varoufakis (, ; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015, when"
"the interim Minister of Finance. Reuters reported that Tsakalotos was considering not running in the September 2015 legislative election, as he did not want to have to implement the bailout agreement. However, these fears were assuaged by Alexis Tsipras when he said there was no doubt that Tsakalotos would stand in the election. He also claimed that, during the election campaign, without Tsakalotos' involvement, there would have been no bailout package. In recognition of that, Tsakalotos was made to head the list for Syriza in Athens B. In an interview during the campaign, Tsakalotos admitted that the Greek government had"
"without renewal, the European Central Bank would have pulled its liquidity provisions from Greece's commercial banks, ensuring that they closed their doors to the public. Varoufakis led this negotiation at the Eurogroup and with the International Monetary Fund. On 20 February, at the Eurogroup, an agreement to extend the Greek loan ""facility"" for four months, until 30 June 2015, was struck and Varoufakis hailed it as crucial – because it represented a fresh start by specifying that the terms of the loan would be renegotiated and its conditions would be re-drawn on the basis of a new list of reforms"
"financing gap for 2015 by a continued additional sale of seven-year and ten-year bonds in 2015. During the second half of 2014, the Greek government again negotiated with the Troika. The negotiations were this time about how to comply with the programme requirements, to ensure activation of the payment of its last scheduled eurozone bailout tranche in December 2014, and about a potential update of its remaining bailout programme for 2015–16. When calculating the impact of the 2015 fiscal budget presented by the Greek government, there were a disagreement, with the calculations of the Greek government showing it fully complied"
"as a template for resolution of a bankruptcy. However, it was the interviewer that had used the word ""template"" and not Dijsselbloem himself. On 26 March 2013, Dijsselbloem said explicitly that he did not consider the Cyprus case to be a template. As Eurogroup head, Dijsselbloem later represented European creditors in negotiations with Greece over its bailout packages following Syriza's victory in the January 2015 legislative election. Initially the Greek government formed by Syriza and the Independent Greeks pursued bilateral talks with creditors and later the Eurogroup agreed on an extension of the bailout for four months. The negotiations for"
"later that day. In the process of this, Tsakalotos relinquished his previous ministerial position of Alternate Minister for International Economic Relations. Tsakalotos was noted for his differences with Varoufakis, for example, the ""Financial Times"" noted that he ""could hardly be more different from his flamboyant predecessor"". At a press conference shortly following his appointment, Tsakalotos said: ""I cannot hide from you that I am quite nervous. I am not taking on this job at the easiest point in Greek history."" Tsakalotos' first official meeting as Minister of Finance was on 7 July and was an emergency meeting of the Eurogroup"
"Spain, Ireland, and Portugal, various politicians within the EU did not want to see Greece's radical new government emerge as successful. Moreover, the differences in economic ideology will have contributed to the lack of progress towards a mutually-agreeable solution. On 25 June 2015, Varoufakis was presented with an ultimatum in the Eurogroup. It included a fiscal proposal, a reform agenda, and a funding formula that Varoufakis, his government, and several other ministers of finance sitting in the Eurogroup, considered to be non-viable. The next day, the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, called for a referendum on the Eurogroup's proposal on"
"March 2015, he claimed that then-Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis was undermining the Greek negotiations over the third bailout programme, saying: ""Every time he opens his mouth, he creates a problem for the country’s negotiating position."" Mitsotakis was the first of four New Democracy members to announce their candidacy in the leadership election, declared following the resignation of Antonis Samaras as party leader and the failure of New Democracy in the September 2015 snap election. Amongst the other contestants was then-interim leader and former Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament Vangelis Meimarakis. According to the ""Financial Times"", Mitsotakis was ""billed as"
"July 2015 the government of Tsipras reached an agreement with the European authorities for a 3-year-bailout with even harsher austerity conditions as the ones rejected by the voters. This represented a ""drastic turnaround"" for Prime Minister Tsipras position, as he had been elected in an anti-austerity platform. Former Finance Minister Varoufakis characterised the harshness of the deal as a new Treaty of Versailles and ""Greece’s Terms of Surrender"". In July and August, Tsipras was able to get the new austerity packages and the entire bailout agreement approved by the Parliament, but had to relly in the pro-European Union opposition parties"
"a sin, it is not illegal in the formal sense of the law, but for me it is indicative."" In response, the Deputy Prime Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, revealed that the Ministry of Finance had found a number of instances of MPs sending money abroad in 2011 and had asked for the Finance Intelligence Unit's help on a number of these cases. On 27 January 2015, Nikoloudis was appointed as Minister of State for Combatting Corruption in Alexis Tsipras' cabinet. Shortly after taking on the role, in February 2015, he said that he was targeting a ""handful of families who think"
"to be provided by the Greek government. That list was submitted by Varoufakis on 23 February and was approved by the Eurogroup on 24 February. On those grounds, Varoufakis signed the official document by which the loan agreement's expiry date was to be extended from 28 February to 30 June 2015 – a four-month period during which a new agreement was to be negotiated. Varoufakis' view on Greece's public debt, and the 2010 crisis which began as a result of the Greek governments' inability to fund it, was that EU bailouts were attempts to take on the largest loan in"
"great accumulation of public debt, caused by continuing large public sector deficits. As part of the bailout, the Greek government agreed to adopt austerity measures that would reduce the deficit from 11% in 2009 to ""well below 3%"" in 2014. The bailout did not include debt restructuring measures such as a haircut, to the chagrin of the Swiss, Brazilian, Indian, Russian, and Argentinian Directors of the IMF, with the Greek authorities themselves (at the time, PM George Papandreou and Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou) ruling out a haircut. A second bailout package of more than €100 billion was agreed over the"
"suffered ""defeat"" during negotiations with creditors, implying that some responsibility for this lay with his predecessor, Varoufakis. Following the re-election of the Syriza-ANEL coalition, Tsakalotos was tipped to resume the role of Minister of Finance, however the state media reported that he was reluctant to do so. Nonetheless, he was reappointed as Minister of Finance on 23 September, as part of the Tsipras' second cabinet. Chouliarakis, the interim Minister of Finance, was retained in the finance ministry as an Alternate Minister of Finance. Later in September, in an interview with the ""Financial Times"", Tsakalotos said that it was ""absolutely critical"
"Varoufakis resigned. In his resignation statement the following morning he claimed that ""other European participants"" had expressed a wish for his absence. Later he explained that he decided to resign during a meeting with the prime minister, on the night of the referendum, during which he discovered that the prime minister, instead of being energised by the ""No"" vote, declared to Varoufakis his decision to acquiesce to the troika's terms. Unwilling to sign such a ""surrender"" document, Varoufakis chose to resign. His explanation, published later by Harry Lambert, ""New Statesman"", 13 July 2015, was this: ""I'm not going to betray"
"it implement the old one (which the Syriza government was elected to re-write). In March 2015, the ""Wall Street Journal"" pointed to several tensions between Greece and the other Eurozone countries, saying that some countries feel they have taken the ""tough medicine"" and the €195 billion owed is not insignificant. Further, they stated other governments have philosophical differences with Varoufakis and his Anglosphere and Keynesian leanings. Peter Ludlow said Varoufakis and his colleagues ""turned instinctively... to the U.K. and the U.S. even before they called on the European Left."" In a discussion with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz on invitation of"
"(including Moronis) were male; 3 were female. Only two members of the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras remained in the same roles, Panagiotis Nikoloudis as Minister of State for Combatting Corruption and Tryfon Alexiadis as Alternate Minister of Finance. Dimitris Papangelopoulos had formerly served in Tsipras's cabinet as a Deputy Minister for Justice, but served as the Minister of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights in the Caretaker Cabinet. Caretaker Cabinet of Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou The Caretaker Cabinet of Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou was formed following the resignation of the Syriza-ANEL coalition government on 20 August 2015, and the failure of opposition parties to"
"Insurance Fund of the Treasury for ten years. Alexiadis was the vice president of the Greek tax collector's union, POE-DOY. He was quoted in this capacity by several newspapers, including the ""New York Times"" in 2013 and ""The Guardian"" in February 2015. ""The Guardian"" also described him as ""close to Tsipras’s Syriza party"". In a cabinet reshuffle on 17 July, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appointed Alexiadis as an Alternate Minister of Finance, replacing Nadia Valavani who had resigned on 15 July. ""The Guardian"" noted that Alexiadis ""had better hit the ground running"" as a critical bailout vote was due later"