Former Greek PM Tsipras says no one 'could stand' ex-finance minister Varoufakis

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Former Greek PM Tsipras says no one 'could stand' ex-finance minister Varoufakis  On Tuesday, Varoufakis told Greek state TV ERT that he has not read the book, saying that he would instead "wait for the movie to be released".  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/11/25/former-greek-pm-tsipras-says-no-one-could-stand-ex-finance-minister-varoufakis  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Greece's former prime minister Alexis Tsipras blasted his ex-finance minister Janus Varoufakis

00:08in his recently released memoir. Tsipras argued that Varoufakis was quote more a celebrity than

00:14an economist. He also said he underestimated the human factor when appointing him as finance

00:21minister during Greece's debt crisis in 2015. A decade ago Tsipras rose to power on an anti-austerity

00:29agenda. However, the former prime minister appeared on track to lead Greece out of the eurozone.

00:35Despite a referendum in which Greeks rejected the bloc's proposed bailout terms,

00:40Tsipras ignored the results and accepted a new package with harsher austerity measures.

00:46Varoufakis resigned over the ex-prime minister's decision to reverse course.

00:51On Tuesday, Varoufakis commented on the release of the memoir,

00:55saying he had not read the book and would instead wait for the movie to be released.

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