Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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[embedded content] Yanis Varoufakis and Conservative MP Ken Clarke join Andrew Neil, along with Camilla Tominey from the Telegraph and Labour’s Rupa Huq. They discuss whether Labour is ready to govern, Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit meeting with the EU’s Michel Barnier and the Salisbury poisoning suspect reported to be a Russian military officer.

Αυτό που κάνει την τραγωδία να διαφέρει από την παγιωμένη κατάθλιψη είναι η προσδοκία της κάθαρσης. Αυτή η προσδοκία είναι σήμερα απούσα στη χώρα. Από τη στιγμή που η πρώτη αριστερή κυβέρνηση ενσωματώθηκε εν μιά νυκτί στο Μνημονιακό Τόξο ξεκίνησε η διαδικασία της παράδοσης της μεγάλης πλειοψηφίας, ακόμα και συντηρητικών πολιτών, στην ψυχολογία του εγκλωβισμού σε σκοτεινό λαβύρινθο αδιεξόδων. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι...

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Deregulation. Infinite growth. Self-correcting markets. All are hallmarks of neoliberal thinking. But they’re more than just assumptions about the economy. They undergird much of the most influential thinking about governance right now, and dominate political and economic thinking everywhere. The results, according to some, have been disastrous. Investigative journalist Bruce Livesey asks four experts about the...

ATHENS – As deadlines approach and red lines are redrawn in the United Kingdom’s impending withdrawal from the European Union, it is imperative for the people of Britain to regain democratic control over a process that is opaque and ludicrously irrational. The question is: How? Democracy can never aspire to being more than a work in progress. Decisions made collectively must constantly be reappraised...

Stephen Sackur speaks to Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's radical leftist former finance minister at the height of the economic crisis, now an advocate for a new global progressive politics. The old certainties in European politics are crumbling, where voters seem fed up with the long established supremacy of the parties of centre right and centre left. The politics of identity and raw emotion have fuelled populist insurgencies from Italy to Sweden and Eastern Europe, where it is mostly it is the...

DiEM25 co-founder, Yanis Varoufakis, discusses Brexit with Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party, at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival. "In the EU, against THIS EU".