Greece Says It Is Changing Team That Negotiates With Creditors
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Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister, front, with Euclid Tsakalotos, a deputy foreign minister who will take over the day-to-day discussions about Greece’s debt and bailout financing.
ATHENS — Ever since the leftist-led Greek government came to power in late January, the avatar of the country’s austerity-weary public has been its outspoken, motorcycle-riding renegade finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
On Monday, seeming to acknowledge that the rest of the eurozone has grown weary with the Varoufakis approach to debt negotiation, the Athens government announced a shake-up of the team trying to work out a plan with international creditors before the country runs out of money.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took pains to say that Mr. Varoufakis would remain the team’s leader. But the day-to-day discussions will be “coordinated” by Euclid Tsakalotos, a deputy foreign minister and an Oxford-educated economist whose soft-spoken style contrasts sharply with that of Mr. Varoufakis…
Greece Says It Is Changing Team That Negotiates With Creditors
