Yanis Varoufakis

Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis stepped up his dispute with Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras on Saturday by setting out in an op-ed the four reasons for which the latter should resign.

Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on Friday hastened to dismiss claims made by French President Francois Hollande in a new book that Russian President Vladimir Putin had told him he had been approached by Greek officials a day after a referendum on the country's third bailout agreement on July 5, 2015, and asked whether Athens could print drachmas in Russia.

Opposition parties have stepped up calls for former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to face official scrutiny over his time in office after the economist confirmed that he described his country as bankrupt in a meeting with European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.

There was nothing pleasant about the flash estimates published on Friday by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on the progress of the Greek economy, which pointed to a contraction of 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2016.

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis blasted French President Francois Hollande, during his appearance at a rally by French workers in Paris, who were protesting against Hollnde’s labour market reforms. Varoufakis, who showed up at the gathering in a show of solidarity, received a rock star’s reception by the gathered demonstrators.

The leaking of a conference call of International Monetary Fund officials on Greece’s latest bailout review has undermined the trust in debt talks, embarrassed the European Commission and infuriated the IMF and Germany, says Reuters.

In an interview with Press Project in July 2015, Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis made a statement which went unnoticed back then, but now after the phone-tapping of Thomsen-Velculescu talks, the issue was brought to our attention again.

SYRIZA is collapsing stressed former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in an interview with Economist, claiming that the ruling party will fall from 40% to 4%.

As he said, SYRIZA is not collapsing because it tried to bend the rules of globalisation, but “because it has been co-opted to an unworkable fiscal policy”.

The new book – titled Anders gemeinsam – written by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and French Finance Minister Michel Sapin was presented last week and reveals information on Alexis Tsipras, Yanis Varoufakis, Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos.

Former President of Greek Parliament Zoi Konstantopoulou revealed new shocking information about what happened before and after the referendum and claimed that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had agreed on signing a memorandum since 2014, when he was leader of the opposition.