France: Varoufakis meets with Montebourg in French province

Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, met with Arnaud Montebourg, the French former finance minister, following an invite from the French politician to Frangy-en-Bresse, a small village near Dijon, Sunday. Hundreds of photographers and journalists surrounded the former ministers, making enormous efforts to get something more than a smile from the two. The meeting comes on the day that Varoufakis said that Alexis Tsipras is on his trajectory to of becoming "new De Gaulle, or Mitterrand," in an interview with The Guardian. Varoufakis accused Tsipras of falling prey to his ego and abandoning his supporters. Varoufakis stood down as finance minister in early July. Since then, Greece has accepted the terms Varoufakis famously opposed during his time in negotiations with creditors.