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A Tale of Two Faltering Unions (UK and EU); and what DiEM25 proposes in response – Address at the Oxford Guild, Oxford University, 28/11/2017 (Audio + Full Transcript)

[embedded content] Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25, former Minister of Finance for Greece and high profile economist, academic and writer, addressed The Oxford Guild  on Tuesday 28th November in the Said Business School Amphitheatre. He discussed the state of the European Union, of the United Kingdom, the political landscape globally and the political/economic/social agenda of DiEM25...

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Keynote on ‘Europe and its Neighbours’, Chatham House event at the Royal Society of the Arts, London – 20th November 2017 (audio), followed by conversation with Quentin Peele

“Britain is a great democracy imperilled by the delusion that it is a great power. The EU is a great power imperilled by the delusion that it is a great democracy. To stabilise our common neighbourhood, in the East, the Middle-East and Africa, both Europe and the UK must overcome their delusions and work toward simulating a federation.” [embedded content]...

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A Tale of Two Faltering Unions (UK and EU); and what DiEM25 proposes in response – Address at the Oxford Guild, Oxford University, 28/11/2017 (Audio)

[embedded content] Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25 , former Minister of Finance for Greece and high profile economist, academic and writer, addressed The Oxford Guild  on Tuesday 28th November in the Said Business School Amphitheatre. He discussed the state of the European Union, of the United Kingdom, the political landscape globally and the political/economic/social agenda of DiEM25...

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A Tale of Two Faltering Unions (UK and EU) – Address at the Oxford Guild, Mansfield College, Oxford University, 28/11/2017 at 7.30pm

Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement), former Minister of Finance for Greece and high profile economist, academic and writer, is speaking to The Oxford Guild from 7.30pm on Tuesday 28th November (8th wk) in Mansfield College’s Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium in the newly opened Hands Building. He will be discussing fascinating topical issues including the state of the European Union,...

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On the neo-Nazi Resurgence in Europe and why “ISIS Loves Donald Trump” – in conversation with Amy Goodman

AMY GOODMAN: You heard in this introduction the tax plan that has been put forward. And you’re here in this country, and this is your specialty. You’re an economist. You taught at what? University of Texas, Austin? YANIS VAROUFAKIS: That is right. AMY GOODMAN: And you’re at University of Athens now in Greece. You’re the finance minister, former finance minister in the Syriza government. President Trump calls...

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“BREXIT: What must be avoided and what must be done, now!” – Speech at the Royal Society, London, 7 NOV 2017

No venue is better suited for a detoxifying discussion on Brexit than The Royal Society, whose motto (Nullius In Verba – On No One’s Word) ought to be the foundation of all rational debate. I was, thus, moved and deeply honoured by the EEF’s (*) invitation to deliver their annual lecture on Brexit in The Royal Society. To listen to the talk, which I delivered in the evening on 7th November 2017, click media...

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