Yanis Varoufakis
Greek PM engages in self-criticism before elections
In a wide-ranging interview with Skai Television Tuesday night, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras engaged in broad self-criticism while holding up Greece's exit from the international bailouts and its contentious name deal with North Macedonia as his administration's two key achievements.
New Democracy leads SYRIZA by 9.2 percentage points in new poll
New Democracy leads ruling SYRIZA by 9.2 percentage points in a new poll conducted by the Rass polling company for in.gr between 24 and 27 June which suggests ND is on its way to clinching a parliamentary majority.
ND maintains 9 point lead over SYRIZA in opinion poll for Skai
Just over a week before snap general elections, center-right opposition New Democracy is nine percentage points ahead of leftist SYRIZA, according to the results of a new opinion poll carried out by Pulse for Skai.
Editorial: Mr. Varoufakis was your pick, Mr. Tsipras
In early January, 2015, when there were rumours that Yanis Varoufakis would be tapped as (what by all appearances would be) the incoming SYRIZA government, Alexis Tsipras received warnings from various quarters that it would be a wrong-headed choice.
SYRIZA trailing New Democracy by 8 percent, new poll finds
New Democracy was given an 8-point lead over ruling SYRIZA in a new public opinion poll conducted by Pulse for Skai TV and published on Thursday, with 35 percent of respondents saying they intend to vote for the center-right opposition against 27 percent supporting the incumbent leftists.
Poll projection shows ND leading 11 pct over SYRIZA
Ahead of Greece's general election on July 7, main opposition New Democracy maintains an 11 percent lead over ruling SYRIZA, according to a survey by Opinion Poll published on Thursday.
New poll puts ND lead at 9.8 pct versus SYRIZA
Center-right New Democracy held on to a 9.8 percent point lead over incumbent SYRIZA in a public opinion poll ahead of the general election on July 7.
ND got 34.4 percent of the vote, ahead of SYRIZA's 24.6 percent, according to the Marc poll conducted for Proto Thema newspaper over the weekend.
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New book details EU’s top-secret Grexit, humanitarian disaster plan filed in 2012
A top-secret Grexit plan designed by the ECB, the EU and its financial mechanisms has been detailed in a new book entitled The Last Bluff and authored by Eleni Varvitsiots, the Brussels correspondent of the Athens daily Kathimerini Eleni Varvitsioti and Bloomberg's Viktoria Dendrinou.
Poll: ND lead over ruling SYRIZA still at 8.5 points
Center-right New Democracy held on to an 8.5 percent point lead over the incumbent leftists in a public opinion poll ahead of the general election on July 7.
ND got 34.5 percent of valid votes, ahead of SYRIZA's 26 percent, according to the Pulse poll conducted for Skai TV Thursday.
Yanis Varoufakis: ‘Alexis knows that I know that he knows’
The policies of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his finance minister at the time, Yanis Varoufakis, resulted in the imposition of capital controls in the summer of 2015. Greece found itself on the brink of default.