‘Accidentaleconomist’ gets key Greek role

Radical academic will face Brussels veterans in showdown

A scourge of austerity policies who calls himself an “accidental economist” has become Greece’s finance minister and the key negotiator with its creditors.

In characteristically purple prose, Yanis Varoufakis, 53, celebrated the victory of Alexis Tsipras’s far-left Syriza in Greek elections by paraphrasing Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.