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Snafu with new Greek FinMin corrected by hand

EU bureaucracy still had Yanis Varoufakis -- who was mostly on an island vacation over the weekend -- taking part in Eurogroup

Newsroom July 12 05:44

Oxford-educated Eucleid Tsakalotos may have succeeded Yannnis Varoufakis as Greece’s finance minister this past week, but EU bureaucracy apparently hadn’t gotten the memo, given that the “erratic Marxist” initially appeared on seating arrangements for Sunday’s Eurogroup meeting.
Varoufakis’ name was later crossed out by pen, with his successor’s name written by hand instead.

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