Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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DiEM25 is helping to take the shameful EU-Turkey refugee deal to Europe’s courts in a bid to save the life of one man, Shabbir Iqbal, and improve the lives of millions. #StopTheDeal [embedded content] What is this campaign? On March 20, 2016, the controversial EU-Turkey Agreement came into effect. It specifies that all ‘new irregular migrants’ – a euphemism for refugees and asylum-seekers – arriving in Greece from this date onwards will be returned to Turkey. The EU-Turkey deal is...

[embedded content] This speech was part of a Cambridge Union debate on ‘This House Has Lost Confidence in Austerity’. See below for the video of the whole debate. [embedded content]

At the Cambridge Union's London Debate, economist and DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis explains why 'This house has lost confidence in austerity'.

SkyNews November 21st,2016

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Democracy starts at home! So, at DiEM25 we decide on the movement’s important policy positions by means of an internal vote/referendum that follows a free and frank internal exchange. Below you will find the four options that our members are currently voting for (there will be a runoff vote if none of them secure 50% of the votes plus 1). You will also find a briefing on the state-of-play with the Brexit process (or is it shambles?). Click here a pdf copy of post-Brexit analysis/briefing...

Yanis Varoufakis, Ralph Nader, Tim Barker, Donna Murch and Simon Schama, interviewed by Christopher Lydon. https://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/varoufakis-nader-et-al-on-trump-normalizethis-open-source-radio.mp3 Normalize This! Last week, the election of Donald J. Trump came as a thunderclap. This week, the echoes are still ringing in the ears of the American polity. Reports of the demise of the Republican party turned out to be greatly exaggerated. And now it’s the...

So, the European Commission, at last, concluded that the eurozone’s fiscal stance is too austerian. “Better late than never”, some will say. Alas, this is too optimistic a take. The reason? The Commission is irrelevant and it knows it. Decisions of fiscal policy are now taken in the eurogroup where Commissioner Moscovici has next to no gravitas. Moreover, the Commission seems to know this, putting forward a proposal that it knows will be ignored. “…Member States with further consolidation...