Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

The 2008 global financial crisis — the modern 1929 crash — set off a vicious chain reaction across Europe. By 2010 it had irreparably damaged the foundations of the eurozone, causing the establishment to bend its own rules and commit crimes against logic in order to bail out its banker friends. By 2013 the neoliberal ideology that had legitimised the EU’s oligarchic technocracy had plunged millions into misery,...

[embedded content] Demokratie in Europa is DiEM25’s new political party in Germany. Demokratie in Europa is running in the European Parliament election this coming May as part of our EUROPEAN SPRING that is campaigning across Europe on the basis of our transnational NEW DEAL FOR EUROPE. In this Berlin speech, and in my capacity as a candidate for MEP with Demokratie in Europa, I answer the...

Yanis Varoufakis, MEP candidate for Demokratie in Europa and DiEM25 co-founder, explains what's ailing Europe today and how we can fix it tomorrow morning. The European Spring, that will be contesting the May 2019 European elections in 11 countries, brings together politicians and activists to give a new, European perspective on these critical issues. Check out our #GreenNewDeal programme here: diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/programmeENPlain.pdf

The lean years are here again, to the apparent satisfaction of Germany’s Finance Minister, a Social Democrat.  The rate of growth of the budgetary surplus was declining, therefore restraining expenditure was the prudent attitude, the public must rest assured that over the next few years 25 billion euros will be saved, the chance of a mildly pro-cyclical switch to austerity will not be missed.  But such is the...

The fact that Italy’s public debt has a lower credit rating than private debt is a reflection not of public debt’s intrinsic inferiority but of a political choice made by European leaders. And, by bolstering an authoritarian politician, that choice is now blowing back on them. ATHENS – Italy is now the frontline in the battle of the euro. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is being propelled by a political...

Υπάρχουν δυο τρόποι να κάνει κανείς πολιτική. Ο παλαιοκομματικός τρόπος θέλει «στελέχη» να μαζεύονται σ’ ένα δωμάτιο και να αποφασίζουν την από κοινού κάθοδό τους στις εκλογές προσθέτοντας τα κουκιά τους. Κατόπιν, αφού τα έχουν βρει στη μοιρασιά θέσεων και πόστων, ξύνουν το κεφάλι τους και αναρωτιούνται τι πρόγραμμα θα παρουσιάσουν στους ψηφοφόρους. Πρόκειται για την πρακτική που έχει στρέψει τους πολίτες...

Imagine that we knew the day of our death. Our lives would change drastically. Though we know we shall surely die, not knowing precisely when the mortal coil will be shuffled off makes all the difference, allowing us to live life productively on a day-by-day basis. For exactly the same reason, the fixed deadline embedded in Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty guaranteed that nothing good would come out of the...

'Brexit is a SYMPTOM!' Yanis Varoufakis warns European Union 'DISINTEGRATION' is coming The former Greek Finance Minister warned the European Union is to embark on a path of "great decline" after Britain officially leaves the bloc on March 29. Yanis Varioufakis insisted Brexit is "one of the symptoms" signalling the union will slowly disintegrate as top Eurocrats fail to put the interests of European citizens at the "top of their list of priorities." Speaking to Channel 4 News, Mr...

Jánisz Varufákisz előadása a Sheffield-i Hallam egyetemen. Ha valaki igazi politikát szeretne hallgatni akkor élvezze! És talán valakinek a felirat is hasznos lesz!

[embedded content] The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. I chose the topic of  Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities – my aim being to highlight the manner in which really-existing capitalism is marketed as a utopian science fiction that has nothing to do with… really-existing...