Yanis Varoufakis featured on FXStreet years before becoming Greek FinMin

Yanis VaroufakisYanis Varoufakis, member of Syriza, has just been named Finance Minister of the new Greek Government. He was interviewed several times on FXStreet back in 2011 and 2012.

In May 2011, when rumors of Greece leaving the Euro became persistent, our editorial team searched for voices of Greek English-speaking economists to express their view. We came accross the name of an economist, professor at the University of Athens, who was gaining public fame thanks to his blog. Noemí Jansana, back then the director of our Content Team, got in touch with him. He accepted our invitation and an interview was published on May 13 2011: ‘The Euro is not sustainable with the actual ECB and EcoFin system’. In this article, Noemi Jansana and Yanis Varoufakis were discussing the Greek debt restructuring, the Euro and the Troïka decisions. This interview is listed as his first media interview on his blog, yanisvaroufakis.eu.

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