Greece: Varoufakis reprimanded by his own camp – The Obs

Athens (AFP) – With its casual humor and carnivorous smile, Yanis Varoufakis has become the icon of the new Greek government’s radical left, but a month and a half of pervasive media eventually annoy up its own camp.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Saturday appeared to confirm the rumor lending him to have asked the Minister of Finance to do less. German magazine Der Spiegel asked him if he had reframed the charismatic Minister Tsipras said: “I asked all the Cabinet to talk less and act more, not just to Mr. Varoufakis.”

Avgi, clean daily Syriza party, in power since January 25, complained this week of “toxic exposure” Mr. Varoufakis.

Avgi feared that “sexual icon” described by the German newspaper Die Welt “strike all the benefits” sympathy he helped build around the government Tsipras to appearances strength in the national and international media.

“Yanis, do not worry too much,” joked Avgi. “Because the economy, that is not only able to manage the budget, it is also know to be thrifty words.”

A cartoon in the liberal daily Kathimerini Wednesday ridiculed the omnipresence of the Minister Greek television. We see Mr. Varoufakis on the screen, and a housewife ask her husband to change the channel. The husband runs a few times, but the woman did not notice and irritated against him, because every time it’s head shaved minister who reappears in the window.

In addition to Greece, where his European counterparts have not always enjoyed seeing out in the newspapers of the Ministry of Finance projects they would want the scoop, Mr. Varoufakis spoke that all major European countries have financial or worthy media “thought provoking”, as claims his entourage. He even gave an interview in the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo

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It also very free dialogue on Twitter with some journalists, which the not prevent him from denouncing the same social network to “dig mud journalists.”

Mr. Varoufakis however seems a little more careful recently: he took the court press this week in Athens in convening the but then refusing to answer questions beyond his own opening statement

His mood upside down. journalists must not have been improved Friday by mocking or aback comments that accompanied the revelation of the measures proposed by the Greek government to its European partners to fill the coffers of the State: engaging for short periods of students, housewives or even tourists, and equipping them with hidden cameras to go hunt down the VAT fraudsters.

The government was quick to retort to the accusations “ridiculous” worn by the right, ensuring that once led the hunt for fraudsters, “we would see is ridiculous and who is not.”

Despite the warnings of Mr. Tsipras Mr. Varoufakis is not the only to talk a lot in the government, the risk to stiffen a little more financial partners of Greece, which Athens yet still requires a lot of money.

So, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has not hesitate Saturday in Latvia to threaten millions of illegal migrants, including thousands of jihadists surging in Europe if the EU abandons Greece. “The partners of Greece should take it much more seriously,” he threatened.

Friday, the Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis who had used the bellicose vocabulary. “The country is at war with its creditors,” said he told parliament.