Varoufakis says biggest mistake was trusting Tsipras

Almost three years after the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government signed the third bailout program and two days before Greece is set to complete it, former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said his biggest mistake during his tumultuous tenure was "trusting Tsipras."

"My mistake was trusting Mr. Tsipras - [trusting] that we had been elected with a clear mandate not to extend the country's debt colony status with a new memorandum and that we would fight until the end to link the total debt and the repayment rate with the GDP and its growth rate - what we call the growth clause," he told SKAI television on Saturday.

Asked to comment on the estimation made by the head of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Klaus Regling that the first six months of 2015, when Varoufakis was at the helm of the finance ministry, cost the country 86-200 billion euros, the former minister...