Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

"This is a deal a nation signs only when it has been defeated in war. It's not a deal which is fit for purpose for any sovereign country." BBCQT Notice all the #Brexit cucks backing May's Treaty... #YanisVaroufakis #LeaveMeansLeave

The former Greek finance minister takes a taxi with the FT to give his view on how Prime Minister Theresa May should have negotiated with Brussels and how he would navigate the next steps ► Subscribe to FT.com here: http://bit.ly/2GakujT ► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs For more video content from the Financial Times, visit http://www.FT.com/video Twitter https://twitter.com/ftvideo Facebook https://www.facebook.com/financialtimes

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Mar.26 -- Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, discusses the Brexit impasse and U.K. opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's call for Britain to remain in the European Union's customs union. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."

The memory of past greatness can be debilitating for a people who feel they have failed to rise to a historic occasion.  We Greeks have been burdened by this sensation at various moments in our postwar history: in 1967, when we failed to prevent a military coup; or more recently in 2015, when we allowed the troika of the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank to crush us. Brexit Britain is, today, wallowing...

Η συλλογική μνήμη ενός ηρωικού παρελθόντος μετατρέπεται εύκολα σε μεμψιμοιρία από έναν λαό που νιώθει ότι, αντίθετα με τους προγόνους του, απέτυχε να σταθεί στο ύψος των περιστάσεων. Οταν ο απόηχος του ένδοξου παρελθόντος συνδυάζεται με τη μιζέρια της σημερινής κατάπτωσης, το αποτέλεσμα είναι ένα απαίσιο μείγμα υπεροψίας και μεμψιμοιρίας. Η μόνη διέξοδος από αυτή την παγίδα είναι το ρεαλιστικό διεθνικό όραμα. Με...