Yanis Varoufakis
Greece
SYRIZA
member of the Hellenic Parliament
government
Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing European political alliance he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he served as Minister of Finance in the government of Alexis Tsipras in 2015, during the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis, where he became internationally known for opposing EU-imposed austerity measures.
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Oct 12, 2026
Far Left
The former Greek finance minister gave an interview to L'Humanité warning that those who believe in austerity are either stupid or malevolent, ahead of the finance bill debate.
LFI treats Varoufakis as a key international ally whose Greek experience proves that capitulating to austerity destroys the left, reinforcing Mélenchon's line of no compromise with Macron's budget orthodoxy.