(28 Jan 2015) Greece's new finance minister said on Wednesday that his government would have a "duel" with Europe over its new policies, and noted that a new relationship was being created but negotiations would not be easy.
Economist Yanis Varoufakis, 53, took up his new role, as Moody's ratings agency warned of a worsening financial situation that sent the country's stock market sharply lower.
He also said he would turn a new page in the Greek crisis, calling the bailout a "big toxic mistake".
Varoufakis announced he was going to have his first meeting with his French counterpart Michel Sapin early next week to discuss various proposals planned by the new Greek government, including a "pan-European New Deal which will jump-start Europe."
Previous governments in Athens had committed themselves to achieving high primary budget surpluses - that is, surpluses that do not count the cost of servicing debt - in order to make the country's national borrowings more sustainable.
But Tsipras' Syriza party, which won a sweeping general election victory on Sunday on a promise it would overhaul those earlier commitments, calls that target unrealistic.
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