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13 July 2015updated 12 Oct 2023 11:04am

Yanis Varoufakis full transcript: our battle to save Greece

The full transcript of the former Greek Finance Minister's first interview since resigning.

By Harry Lambert

Read the report from Greece of our interview with Varoufakis here.

This conversation took place before the deal.

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[But] Schäuble was consistent throughout. His view was “I’m not discussing the programme – this was accepted by the previous government and we can’t possibly allow an election to change anything. Because we have elections all the time, there are 19 of us, if every time there was an election and something changed, the contracts between us wouldn’t mean anything.”
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