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[embedded content] This interview preceded the launch of the Dutch chapter of DiEM25 in Paradiso, Amsterdam.

By Brian Pelan on February 28, 2017 Latest news, VIEWdigital news Freelance journalist and commentator Amanda Ferguson talks to  economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis ahead of a recent Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DIEM25) event in Belfast.  Q: You have strong links with the island of Ireland. What do you like about the place, the people, and Belfast? A: Well, I come from a place...

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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

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For der Freitag’s site click here. To read my original English answers… Mr Varoufakis, the current unemployment rate in the Eurozone is at 9,8%, the lowest since July 2009. One could get the impression things are getting better… It is, I grant you, still perfectly possible for those who wish to remain in denial to read the data in a manner that allows them to remain in denial – to their own detriment and to the detriment of Europe. But for those who want the unembellished truth, the...

[embedded content] This video, prepared by and for BBC Newsnight, foreshadows DiEM25’s European New Deal – which will be made available in full during February. The script follows: Having dismissed their poverty as a personality defect and their zero hour contracts as efficiency improvements, the Deep Establishment now looks on in despair as a Nationalist International triumphs. Two are its handmaidens: Involuntary under-employment – the bitter price of austerity And involuntary migration –...