Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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“Treat migrants with respect, as human beings, and they’ll become the staunchest supporters of the UK.” — Yanis Varoufakis on BBC Question Time last week. (from a debate on BBC Question Time, Hartlepool, UK on October 20, 2016)

[embedded content] On the panel are Conservative former chancellor Ken Clarke MP, Labour’s shadow education secretary Angela Rayner MP, runner up in the UKIP leadership election Lisa Duffy, DiEM25 initiator and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and the previous owner of the Daily Telegraph Conrad Black.

"The first thing that you must understand if you’re about to enter into negotiations with the European Union is that the other side is not going to negotiate." - Yanis Varoufakis Filmed at Brexit Britain: what went wrong and what now? An openDemocracy/Another Europe is Possible/DiEM25 event.

In This Review And the Weak Suffer What They Must? – Yanis Varoufakis Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and Europe – James K. Galbraith The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe – Joseph Stiglitz Some foreign policy decisions hang like albatrosses around the necks of the states that made them. For the United States, the war in Iraq offers the prime example of a costly and seemingly irreversible blunder. For...

Friday 23/9/2016 (click here for the Eurofinance site & here for a related Keynote speech) How long can Europe go on like this? In mid-July Germany sold €4.038bn of 10-year zero-coupon bonds with a yield of minus 0.05 per cent. This added a few more billions to the more than €4.25 trillion euros-worth of euro-zone government bonds that now carry a negative yield. These yields and the ECB’s €80-billion a month quantitative easing policy have now infected non-government markets....

https://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/eurofinanceoct2016.m4a

Click here for the CNN site. (Note that the title was chosen by CNN’s editor.) Arthur Miller once said that “an era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.” The faith in trickle-down economics, in the wisdom of unfunded tax cuts, in the capacity of Wall Street to regulate itself, and in Silicon Valley to look after America’s innovations — all of these illusions now look completely exhausted. Americans have good cause to be disillusioned. Median incomes have...

Addressing a DiEM25-Another Europe event held at the LSE on Saturday 8th October 2016 Before the referendum DiEM25, our Democracy in Europe Movement, and Another Europe Is Possible, joined forces to argue the ‘IN the EU and AGAINST this EU’ line. In town hall meetings, on the streets, on radio & television, in newspaper interviews & articles, we traversed the country to convince the people of Britain that another Europe is possible. We failed! On 23rd June, the people of Britain...

" Ils nous accusent d'être utopistes mais la vraie utopie est d'imaginer que l'Europe, telle qu'elle est aujourd'hui, anti-démocratique, puisse continuer comme ça. " Yanis Varoufakis, 16 avril 2016, Place de la République, Paris Photos & Vidéos : Stefanie Lebowski