Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

ATHENS – Europe is at the mercy of a common currency that not only was unnecessary for European integration, but that is actually undermining the European Union itself. So what should be done about a currency without a state to back it – or about the 19 European states without a currency that they control? The logical answer is either to dismantle the euro or to provide it with the federal state it needs. The...

Όπως κάθε τυρρανία έτσι και η τρόικα έχει δημιουργήσει την δική της φρασεολογία, για να μην πω γλώσσα, ώστε να αμπαλάρει τα ανακοινωθέντα της ως ανθρωπιστικές, λογικά αναπόφευκτες, αποφάσεις που προαναγγέλλουν θετικές εξελίξεις. Χαρακτηριστικό παράδειγμα το πρόσφατο ανακοινωθέν του Eurogroup. Καθήκον όσων αντιστέκονται είναι η «μετάφραση» τέτοιων ανακοινωθέντων από την τρόικα-speak (όπως θα την ονόμαζε ο...

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This is a superbly written account of the struggle to alleviate the austerity imposed upon the Greek people by the eurozone. Greece, argues Varoufakis, has been put in a debtors’ prison and robbed of autonomy and dignity for the indefinite future. Critics would argue that he failed as finance minister in 2015 because he was insufficiently politic. More plausibly, he could never have succeeded, such were the...

It is no surprise that Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, turns up to our interview without a tie. The 56-year-old famously arrived at Downing Street in 2015 for a meeting with the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, with his shirt untucked. More surprising is that the left-wing economist, who led negotiations with creditors during the 2015 Greek government-debt crisis, is...

Support our Crowdfunding project today so we can continue to produce independent news and analysis: https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/51400-actvism-munich-crowdfunding In this video we talk to the founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, author & former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, who talks about the roots of the financial crisis of 2008 and how it paved the way for a new global regime called Bankruptocracy. FOLLOW US ONLINE: Facebook:...

[embedded content] “We have a major imbalance between savings and investment. We have the highest savings rates in the history of capitalism and lowest level of investment. You only have to state that to realise what the source of our troubles are.” Speaking at FundForum International 2017, Former Greek Finance Minister and DiEM25 Co-Founder Yanis Varoufakis sat down with FundForum...

A former minister’s account of how Greece handled a financial meltdown is a tell-all political memoir like no other   G. Sampath Whether it is agricultural policies that hurt farmers’ interests or labour ‘reforms’ that erode workers’ rights, or welfare cuts that hurt the poor, it has been seen time and again in democracies around the world that all political parties, regardless of their electoral promises and...

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Kürzlich habe ich in Hamburg mit Yanis Varoufakis im Vorfeld des G20-Gipfels über die Zukunft der Weltwirtschaft und Europas diskutiert. Es war auch ein Streitgespräch - hier findet Ihr das Video. Ich habe Sympathien für einige der Forderungen seiner Bewegung Diem25. Vieles ist nicht neu, manches teile ich nicht. Es erinnert ein Wenig an die Piraten, die ja gekentert sind, ohne zu entern. Ich glaube nicht, dass man die EU ohne harte Kämpfe in Staaten wie Deutschland und Frankreich oder...