Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Srećko Horvat, a Croat philosopher, Elif Shafak, renowned Turkish novelist, and Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, bring to this conversation an intriguing perspective. As intellectuals who know Britain well, they understand first hand the perils of nationalism, disintegration, isolationism and marginalisation. They place post-Brexit Britain in a context informed by a view of Europe and Britain from the continent’s opposite ‘corner’, sharing insights from Greece’s tensions...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Here Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister, argues that it’s time for a “New Deal” – including a universal basic income.

ATHENS – Since the summer of 2015, Greece has (mostly) dropped out of the news, but not because its economic condition has stabilized. A prison is not newsworthy as long as the inmates suffer quietly. It is only when they stage a rebellion, and the authorities crack down, that the satellite trucks appear. The last rebellion occurred in the first half of 2015, when Greek voters rejected piling new loans upon...

LONDON – “I don’t care about what it will cost. We took our country back!” This is the proud message heard throughout England since the Brexit referendum last June. And it is a demand that is resonating across the continent. Until recently, any proposal to “save” Europe was regarded sympathetically, albeit with skepticism about its feasibility. Today, the skepticism is about whether Europe is worth saving. The...

Άρθρο του Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη για το ThePressProject.gr «Δεν με νοιάζει τι θα κοστίσει. Πήραμε τη χώρα μας πίσω!» Αυτό είναι το περήφανο μήνυμα που ακούγεται σε όλη την Αγγλία μετά το δημοψήφισμα για το Brexit τον περασμένο Ιούνιο. Πρόκειται για ένα αίτημα που αναπτύσσεται σε όλη την ήπειρο. Μέχρι πρόσφατα, κάθε πρόταση για τη «σωτηρία» της Ευρώπης αντιμετωπιζόταν συμπαθητικά, παρά τον σκεπτικισμό για την...

Άρθρο του Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη για το Project Syndicate – απόδοση στα ελληνικά ThePressProject.gr Από το καλοκαίρι του 2015, η Ελλάδα δεν βρίσκεται (συνήθως) στη διεθνή ειδησεογραφία, αλλά όχι επειδή η οικονομική της κατάσταση έχει σταθεροποιηθεί. Μια φυλακή δεν είναι ενδιαφέρουσα εάν οι κρατούμενοι υποφέρουν σιωπηλά. Μόνο όταν οι κρατούμενοι οργανώσουν μια εξέγερση και οι αρχές προσπαθούν να την ελέγξουν, τότε...

Srećko Horvat, a Croat philosopher, Elif Shafak, renowned Turkish novelist, and Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, bring to this conversation an intriguing perspective. As intellectuals who know Britain well, they understand first hand the perils of nationalism, disintegration, isolationism and marginalisation. They place post-Brexit Britain in a context informed by a view of Europe and Britain from the continent’s opposite ‘corner’, sharing insights from Greece’s tensions...

Dear Sir, A day after one of your able journalists interviewed me in London, with a view of composing a piece for your newspaper (which I suppose is forthcoming), my attention was drawn to a separate piece that I am sure slipped inadvertently into your newspaper through your various filters. Its defamatory and wholly made-up title tells the whole story: “Varoufakis ‘funnels thousands to offshore bank account’“....

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