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Yanis Varoufakis on EU negotiations, Sam Leith on Brexit language and Harry Mount andSophia Money-Coutts on the Glamocracy. Click here
Read More »Carry On Brexit: Is the long haul just beginning? – The Spectator podcast (audio)
Yanis Varoufakis & James K. Galbraith on Democracy & DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement), in conversation with KUT’s Rebecca McInroy,
Listen to this insightful one hour-long discussion on democracy’s discontents in Europe and the United States between two economists who, in 2015, worked together to restore democracy in a small European country while helping its people escape debt-bondage. Here they discuss those events as well as the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25) that is now taking the fight for democracy to every...
Read More »Doug Henwood’s review of ‘Adults in the Room’ (Baffler) & a radio discussion between us
Doug Henwood’s long review of my Adults in the Room follows. Plus a radio interview with Doug for BEHIND THE NEWS. https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Behind-the-News-17_10_12-on-Adults-in-the-Room-.mp3FINANCE MINISTERS RARELY BECOME CELEBRITIES. Sure, there was a moment in the 1990s when Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary Robert Rubin came close. But that was because...
Read More »The Great Crash (2007/8) ten years on – talking on BBC Radio 4’s World At One special program
In this BBC World at One program dedicated to the Crash of 2007-8, I try, in the space of two and a half minutes, to explain why those momentous events, ten years ago, changed the world in a manner that it no longer makes sense in terms common prior to 2007. Of why I claim that 2007/8 was to capitalism what 1991 was to socialism...
Read More »Insolvent Greece goes to market 2.0
Why do I refuse to be impressed by the news of Greece’s return to the markets? “It is because the Greek state and the Greek banks remain deeply insolvent. And, their return to the money markets is a harbinger of the next terrible phase of Greece’s crisis, rather than a cause for celebration”. The above was my answer in a BBC interview on 9th April… 2014! It is also the only answer that fits today’s announcement...
Read More »On the eve of the Brexit negotiations’ commencement – on BBC Radio 4’s BH program
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BBC-Radio-4-Broadcasting-House-Advice-to-PM-May-on-the-even-of-the-Brexit-negotiations-commencement-2017-06-18-at-11.39.mp3Sunday 18th June 2017
Read More »How to build a democratic Europe in a post-Brexit landscape – interviewed for Jacobin by Doug Henwood
Yanis Varoufakis negotiated with the EU elite over the Greek bailout, witnessed firsthand the callous mathematics used to keep the union together. Today — after OXI, after Brexit, and after Trump — he and his comrades in DiEM25 are calling for a New Deal for Europe: a plan that can stabilize the European Union and return democracy to the people. He sat down with Doug Henwood on Behind the News to discuss this...
Read More »Discussing Europe with Doug Henwood on Behind the News
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Doug-Henwood-Radio-Interview-17-MARCH-2017.mp3
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