ATHENS (Reuters) - Brash and unrepentant for lecturing Europe on the evils of austerity, Yanis Varoufakis rose to instant hero in Greece when he became finance minister in January. Three months on, Greeks are unemotionally accepting his relegation to the sidelines.
His loss of the leading role in negotiations with Greece's creditors is a price that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras seems ready to pay to break an impasse with the EU and IMF over securing an aid deal that Greeks badly want.
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