Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Am 25. Januar wählten die Griechen die Leute an die Macht, vor denen die ganze EU sie eigentlich gewarnt hatte: die radikale linke Partei Syriza. Der neue Premierminister Alexis Tsipras ernannte einen Mann zum Finanzminister, der gleich bei seinen ersten Auftritten die EU-Verantwortlichen irritierte und verärgerte: Yanis Varoufakis.

Here we have gametheory specialist and politician YANNIS VAROUFAKIS in a rhetorical dispute with foorbalgenius ZIDANE. They are in a theoretical and pratical dispute about the sense and nonsense of the rules that ARISTOTLE in his text on Rhetorica had proposed. A dispute that got extra dimensions because YANNIS and ZIDANE are like two twin brothers. or perhaps even each others Doepelganger!

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Ex-Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, on power, populism and the future of the EU. This interview preceded the launch of the Dutch chapter of Diem25 in Paradiso, Amsterdam. Interview by Lorenzo Fränkel Design by Ilia ten Böhmer Music by Lars Burgwal

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