ATHENS (Reuters) - A scourge of austerity policies who calls himself an "accidental economist" is set to become Greece's finance minister and the key negotiator with its creditors, barring last-minute hitches, senior Syriza party officials said on Monday.
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.
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