The lack of EU help for the states hardest hit by COVID-19 is the latest sign of the hollowness of “European solidarity.” As Yanis Varoufakis tells Jacobin, the European Union’s institutions are hardwired to ignore the needs of the social majority — preferring to allow mass suffering than to change their own rules. Yanis Varoufakis is used to controversy. Since stepping down as Greece’s finance minister in 2015,...
Read More »Dann wäre morgen die Revolution – KONTEXT Wochenzeitung
Unter Meteorologen braucht es keine Meinungsvielfalt – so lange die etablierten Methoden fundierte Prognosen liefern. In den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, wo die Vorhersagen “allenfalls per Unfall” richtig lägen, sei das anders, meint der Ökonom und DiEM25-Initiator Yanis Varoufakis. Wenn die herrschende Lehrmeinung die Realität nicht mehr treffend beschreiben kann, brauche es alternative Blickwinkel. Der...
Read More »From an Economics-without-Capitalism to Markets-without-Capitalism – University of Tübingen (video available)
A lecture organised by University of Tübingen economics students, delivered on Monday 3rd February 2020 on the theme From an Economics-without-Capitalism to Markets-without-Capitalism. Click here to watch the video of the lecture Mainstream economic models lack some important features of really-existing capitalism, including money, time and space. Its models offer ideological cover for a capitalist system...
Read More »From an Economics-without-Capitalism to Markets-without-Capitalism – University of Tübingen lecture tonight (livestream available)
The student initiative Rethinking Economics Tübingen presents the final lecture to its series ‘Introduction to Plural Economics. It will be delivered tonight – Monday 3rd February 2020 by Professor Yanis Varoufakis on the theme From an Economics-without-Capitalism to Markets-without-Capitalism.Mainstream economic models lack some important features of really-existing capitalism, including money, time and space....
Read More »Discussing the Green New Deal for Europe – StartupTV
[embedded content] StartupTV presents Yanis Varoufakis, Greek academic, economist and politician, talking about his vision for the future of European politics, including a Green New Deal for Europe. In 2015, Varoufakis launched his own party, The Democracy in Europe Movement, or DiEM25, alongside Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat. Varoufakis’ vision for a Green New Deal, financed by green...
Read More »On how DiEM25’s Green New Deal differs from the agenda of the European Greens – a debate with Sven Giegold
[embedded content] To read DiEM25’s Green New Deal and join the many, including 18 parties from 13 countries, that have ‘taken the pledge’, click here.
Read More »Tageszeitung-TAZ: DiEM25 as the best hope for overcoming Europe’s nationalist resurgence
Europe is in deep political crisis, and without renewal, the Union could soon fall apart. This is shown by Brexit, the strengthening of Euroscepticism in Italy, in Germany and many other countries. Many now rely on the French president as a renewal and saviour. But Emmanuel Macron is not the right person to stop the slow dying of the European Union. He represents that neo-liberal course that destroys the Union...
Read More »Why the Deutsche Bank merger with Commerzbank must be stopped – HANDELSBLATT (English & German)
The official story is one of creating a national champion, a German bank large enough to compete with American investment banks. The truth is far less heroic and a lot more sordid than that. Here is why Demokratie in Europa is campaigning against this merger. Both banks are zombies. Commerzbank has gone through eight years of constant cost-cutting but still delivers profits of less than $1 per share at a time...
Read More »Why I am running in Germany for the European Spring – Gabor Steingart podcast
[embedded content] For the whole podcast (that includes summaries of my answers in German), click here. For the English part only click here.
Read More »Der Grieche erklärt Europa – Der Spiegel
In der Nachspielzeit, die “Tagesthemen” warten schon, darf Christian Lindner noch einmal seinen Tweet zu den “Profis” erläutern, denen die Sache mit dem Klimawandel überlassen werden müsste. Wer schlechte Zähne habe, der gehe ja auch zum Zahnarzt. [VIDEO LINK] Schon freut sich Lindner über seinen späten Punkt, da umdribbelt plötzlich Yanis Varoufakis eine bereits auf glühenden Kohlen sitzende Anne Will und taucht...
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