Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Yanis Varoufakis has told the UK government to get a move on with triggering Article 50 to begin a “robust debate” on what a post-Brexit Britain could look like. In an interview with the BBC’s Today programme, the former Greek finance minister, said the discussion prior to the referendum was of “very low quality”, adding that once article 50 is invoked Britain should use the negotiating period to prepare itself as nation. On what strategy the UK should adopt Varoufakis said: “My advice is...

ATHENS – Despite their unequivocal Europeanism, the Irish have been serially mistreated by the European Union. When Irish voters rejected the Treaty of Lisbon in 2008, the EU forced them to vote again until they delivered the “right” outcome. A year later, when private Irish banks imploded, threatening their (mainly) German private creditors with severe losses, Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank’s then-president, immediately “informed” the Irish government that the ECB would...

Europe is disintegrating and this could come at great human cost, Greece’s fiery former finance minister warned on Tuesday. “The great fear is that the disintegration of the European Union — whatever you may think about the European Union — is going to come at a very, very large human cost,” Yanis Varoufakis told CNBC in London. “That kind of Europe is one that breeds monsters. It is not the kind of Europe that the world needs,” he later added. He spoke to CNBC at a time of heightened...

by Cristina Criddle 28 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 11:23AM Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s outspoken former finance minister, has said George Osborne will “go down in history as a particularly inept Chancellor.” Mr Varoufakis said that the former UK Chancellor made fiscal targetsthat “entrapped him” in a “vicious cycle”. Responding to a question about Mr Osborne’s replacement, Philip Hammond, on BBC Radio 4, he said: “I believe the new Chancellor is going to utilise this opportunity he is now getting...

https://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/bestoftoday-20160928-wednesdaysbusinesswithdominicoconnell.mp3 An interview on the Brexit paradox-cum-enigma and the future of the European Union – the interview was recorded in the context of the Institute of Directors conference on post-Brexit Britain, 27th September 2016

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​Em palestra ministrada em dezembro de 2015, no evento TEDGlobal, em Genebra, o economista e professor, Yanis Varoufakis, aborda sobre uma nova forma radical de pensar sobre economia, finanças e capitalismo. ​O palestrant​e menciona​ que nas democracias atuais, essa separação da economia da esfera política, o momento em que começou a acontecer, deu origem a uma luta inexorável e épica entre as duas, com a esfera econômica colonizando a esfera política, devorando seu poder.

Reposted from Kings College website Former Greek Finance Minister & Rolls Royce Chairman join King’s College Posted on 19/05/2016 Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former Finance Minister and Sir Simon Robertson, former Chairman of Rolls Royce are both joining King’s as distinguished Visiting Professors within the Department of Political Economy. Starting from 1 August they will both give public lectures , departmental seminars and student facing workshops as part of their activity at...

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