Varoufakis accuses administration of copying its predecessors

Continuing the war of words with the government he used to serve, former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has hit out at Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras over his administration's bond issue, accusing his former comrade of hypocrisy in adopting the very tactics of the predecessors that he had condemned.

In a statement posted on his personal website late on Monday after the government announced that it would be issuing five-year bonds, Varoufakis noted that, while in opposition, Tsipras had condemned conservative premier Antonis Samaras for tapping the bond market, declaring that the move would only benefit foreign banks and investors.

"The Tsipras government today is simply rolling over precisely the same bond that the Samaras-Venizelos-Stournaras government issued in 2014," Varoufakis wrote, referring to former PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos and then finance...

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