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Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis
Age: 54
Economist
Finance Minister Of Greece
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Ioannis Varoufakis
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