Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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Yanis Varoufakis: "L'Europa deve imparare dagli errori del passato e cominciare a mettere in atto politiche di sostegno all'Italia e all'Unione europea. In base ai risultati dell'eurogruppo temo che questo non sia stato fatto. L'Europa sta per vivere una depressione massiccia che abbiamo il dovere di evitare". Sulle misure prese dall'Europa: "Non sono 500 miliardi, sono soltanto 28, il resto sono prestiti. I prestiti sono utili se c'è un problema di liquidità, ma se le aziende non hanno...

  The Eurogroup approved a 500 billion package to fight the crisis. You recently wrote in the Guardian that The EU’s coronavirus relief deal is a gift to Europe’s enemies. Explain. To begin with, the 500 billion euros is almost entirely loans. It’s exactly what Europe doesn’t need, especially like the countries that were hit the hardest, like Italy or Spain or Greece, which have the least capacity to have the...

The debate about the economic consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic has already begun: what do you think is easier to happen? Will it be a momentary crisis or a crisis destined to change our economic system forever? Neither. The consequences will be harsh and will not disappear any time soon. But, it will not, on its own, change the way capitalism works – even though, it is true, commentators revisit important...

Today, on the Thursday symbolising the Last Supper, it is hard for Greeks to take their minds off last Thursday, 9th of April 2020 – the day that the Eurogroup shamelessly condemned our long-suffering people, along with millions of Italians and millions of other Europeans, to huge new austerity precisely at the time they will be struggling to recover from lockdown and massive economic depression. Dark days are...

[embedded content] Μεγάλη Πέμπτη σήμερα. Μια εβδομάδα ακριβώς αφού η κυβέρνηση, με την εκούσια ανυπαρξία της στο Eurogroup, συνθηκολόγησε στο 5ο Μνημόνιο – το 5ο Μνημόνιο του οποίου η φαρμακερή λιτότητα του χρόνου θα πλήξει ένα ήδη λαβωμένο λαό ακριβώς την ώρα που θα πασχίζει να γιατρέψει τις πληγές του μετά τον εγκλεισμό και τη νέα οικονομική κατάρρευση. Έρχονται μέρες χαλεπές για τον Λαό,...

[embedded content] Covid-19 has turned our lives inside-out, upside-down. It has put capitalism in suspended animation. It destroyed lives. It caused a new tsunami of poverty, demonstrated the deep class and race divides as some of us are privileged enough to be in isolation while an army of people out there labour for a pittance and at risk of infection to cater to our needs. But, as...

Donate ? https://i.diem25.org/donations/to/events Join us! ? https://diem25.org/join The coronavirus crisis is revealing that the powers that be of the European Union have learned nothing from the Eurocrisis. They are currently betraying the interests of the majority of Europeans in the same way that they have done so in 2010 -- by failing to mobilize existing money and public financial instruments in the interests of the many. With their current decisions, they are jeopardizing public...