Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

[embedded content] On 17th October 2018, Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice President of the European Commission, addressed the Oxford Union in support of the motion that “the euro has never been stronger“. Today, Friday 16th November 2018, Steve Bannon is addressing the Oxford Union also. In between, on Wednesday 14th November 2018, I had the opportunity to also address the Oxford Union with the...

Whether or not you agree with his politics, there’s no denying that Greece’s one-time Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, offers a lot of food for thought to British businesses. The economist, politician, author and dedicated European reformer addressed our KPMG Executive Exchanges dinner in Leeds in late September. Theresa May, Brexit, Angela Merkel, deflation, the northern powerhouse, idle liquidity and Michel...

"We are facing a systemic crisis in Europe and the one thing we have not done is deal with it systematically. So DiEM25 has decided to do that which the European Commission, the European Parliament, our governments have not done." - DiEM25 co-founder, Yanis Varoufakis. Visit europeanspring.net to find out more! Clip taken from https://youtu.be/PNWQUQFGXh0 [May 25, 2017, Volksbühne, Berlin]

Άραγε αναλογίστηκε ο κ. Τσακαλώτος τί σηματοδότησε προσυπογράφοντας το ανακοινωθέν του Eurogroup και συντηρώντας τη νεοφιλελεύθερη λογική ότι η λιτότητα που επιβάλλει το Σύμφωνο Σταθερότητας θα μειώσει το ιταλικό δημόσιο χρέος; Ο κ. Τσίπρας, συνειδητοποιεί ότι έτσι ενισχύει τον φασίστα Σαλβίνι, στον οποίο δίνει το δικαίωμα, την ώρα που επενδύει συνειδητά στο ρατσιστικό μίσος, να ταυτίζει πλέον την Αριστερά...

[embedded content] As the Brexit negotiations near crunch point, Theresa May is still battling to keep her party on side as she edges closer to a deal with Brussels. But is it possible to take on the EU in negotiations and win? One man who staked his political career on trying just that was the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. He tells Anushka Asthana about his gruelling...

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Last Friday, Yanis Varoufakis was in Italy to promote European Spring, a list of candidates standing across the continent in next May’s European election. The former Greek finance minister visited Rome just days after the European Commission had struck down the Italian government’s budget, sparking further rows over Brussels’ authority to curb member states’ spending. At his press conference, Varoufakis called...

"DiEM25 will contest the European Parliament elections in Italy" – Yanis Varoufakis, press conference announcement, October 26, 2018 in Rome.

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has written several influential books and has co-founded ‘DiEM25’, a pan-European progressive movement which will be competing in next year’s European parliament elections. Adults in the Room was described as ‘one of the greatest political memoirs of all time’, while Talking to My Daughter About the Economy is a lightning-quick account of how capitalism works and how it fails. In this event recorded live at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book...

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