Varoufakis, the mouse, the elephants and the game of chicken

Wednesday was another victory lap for Yanis Varoufakis on his seemingly endless European book tour. Bloomberg Television presented an "exclusive" 15-minute interview with him, in which he offered advice on the Brexit negotiations and on how to solve the problem of the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, he declared that Emmanuel Macron is in a hurry to nowhere, and, in the final minutes of the interchange, he described Greece as "collateral damage" of the incompetence of Paris and Berlin. Oh, and his "Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment" was short-listed for best political book by a non-parliamentarian by the Parliamentary Book Awards.

And this was by midday. Maybe more honors followed. Varoufakis, as he is widely known, has become the heir of the few Greeks who became household names beyond their country's narrow borders....

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