Yanis Varoufakis, the Bad-Boy Former Finance Minister, Is Back
PARIS — In the often-dismal European landscape of technocrats and party hacks, few figures are as colorful and polarizing as Yanis Varoufakis. Remember him? The bad-boy Greek finance minister who, in a heated moment in the European debt crisis in 2015, showed up to meet the chancellor of the exchequer in a long black leather coat, like the Goth who crashed the garden party, before eventually being ousted from his job?
Well, Varoufakis is back. And he’s got a dishy new book, which was just published in the United States. In it, the author casts himself as someone who dared speak truth to power and who is now trying to translate his leftish critique of European governance and global capitalism into a grassroots political force, , ahead of elections for the European Parliament in 2019. The movement is based in no small part on the personal charisma of Varoufakis, who since leaving office has become something of a star of the European left. Costa-Gavras, the Paris-based Greek director of , is making a film based on . When Varoufakis was here recently to promote the French edition
