Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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...

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’“....

To mark its first anniversary DiEM25 has today published a summary of its White Paper entitled ‘European New Deal: An economic agenda for European Recovery’. The full White Paper will be launched on the 25th March 2017 in Rome, in the context of the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Click here for a pdf.

To mark its first anniversary DiEM25 has today published a summary of its White Paper entitled ‘European New Deal: An economic agenda for European Recovery’. The full White Paper will be launched on the 25th March 2017 in Rome, in the context of the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Click here for a pdf.

by Andrew J. Brown On Saturday morning, January 28, 2017, at Conway Hall in Central London, long an important place for radical religious, philosophical, social and political thinking in the UK, DiEM25 held its UK organisational launch. Like all DiEM25 gatherings, more than half of the meeting was made up of conversations involving those attending. To set the scene and introduce some important initial ideas, the morning began with brief contributions from Brian Eno, Elif Şafak, Agnieszka...

Click here or… FORMER GREEK MINISTER for Finance Yanis Varoufakis has said that fears that Ireland may end up as “collateral damage” in negotiations between London and Brussels are “well-founded”. Speaking to RTÉ’s This Week, the economist said if Britain chooses to leave the capital union, Ireland would not be negotiating with London over the status of the border: ”there will be negotiations between London and Brussels on this”. This comes as Gerry Adams said that Brexit could destroy the...

Trump, Turkey & Labour’s Brexit policy – Press review, BBC1, 29 January 2017 – Yanis Varoufakis [embedded content] Press review on the Andrew Marr show, BBC1 tv 29th January 2017 Related Posts

This Saturday (28/1, 10am), Conway Hall, London, Brian Eno, myself and others will launch DiEM25 UK. Join us in a three hour event to discuss taking our countries back on the basis of a progressive agenda. Here is a teaser of what Brian wants to talk about. by Brian Eno The consensus among most of my friends seems to be that 2016 was a terrible year, and the beginning of a long decline into something we don’t even want to imagine. 2016 was indeed a pretty rough year, but I wonder if it’s the...

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