Varoufakis 'sidelined' in bailout talks?

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has reportedly moved to sideline his finance minister from the leading role in negotiating bailout terms with international lenders.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Source: Supplied

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has reportedly moved to sideline his finance minister from the leading role in negotiating bailout terms with international lenders.

Yanis Varoufakis' brash style has continued to provoke Greece's negotiating partners, no less so at recent talks with eurozone finance ministers in Riga.

Syriza, the leftist party governing Greece, came to power on a defiant anti-austerity platform.

But austerity is at the core of demands from the International Monetary Fund and European creditors to a country that's running out of money and seemingly no closer to agreement.

Kyriakos Gold from SBS Radio's Greek language program has been following developments, and he's speaking to Kristina Kukolja.

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