Heterodox
[embedded content] “We have a major imbalance between savings and investment. We have the highest savings rates in the history of capitalism and lowest level of investment. You only have to state that to realise what the source of our troubles are.” Speaking at FundForum International 2017, Former Greek Finance Minister and DiEM25 Co-Founder Yanis Varoufakis sat down with FundForum...
Read More »Five talks on Power, Populism & the Future of Europe
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Read More »Η συλλογή υπογραφών συνεχίζεται: Απαίτησε το δικαίωμά σου να διαβάσεις την γνωμοδότηση για το κλείσιμο των ελληνικών τραπεζών από την EKT
[embedded content] H Ευρώπη διαθέτει μια κεντρική τράπεζα με απεριόριστη δύναμη να κλείνει τις τράπεζες μιας χώρας-μέλους της Ευρωζώνης – την ΕΚΤ. Καμία άλλη κεντρικής τράπεζα δεν έχει τέτοια εξουσία. Για αυτό τον λόγο η ΕΚΤ υποτίθεται ότι θα ήταν μια κεντρική τράπεζα πλήρως ανεξάρτητη από τους πολιτικούς. Όμως, όπως αποδείχτηκε το 2015 με το κλείσιμο των ελληνικών τραπεζών, καμία κεντρική...
Read More »«Εσύ έκλεισες τις τράπεζες»
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Read More »Yanis Varoufakis on power, populism and the future of the EU
[embedded content] This interview preceded the launch of the Dutch chapter of DiEM25 in Paradiso, Amsterdam.
Read More »On Europe, Greece, Brexit & Trump – on Bloomberg TV
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Read More »Brexit – an unorthodox perspective | Guardian Live event
[embedded content] 27th January 2017 Srećko Horvat, a Croat philosopher, Elif Shafak, renowned Turkish novelist, and Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, bring to this conversation an intriguing perspective. As intellectuals who know Britain well, they understand first hand the perils of nationalism, disintegration, isolationism and marginalisation. They place post-Brexit Britain in a...
Read More »Greece’s fiscal waterboarding continues – on Al Jazeera
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Read More »Yanis Varoufakis on BBC: “Western Democracies need a New Deal”
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Here Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister, argues that it’s time for a “New Deal” – including a universal basic income.
Read More »The West needs a New Deal – BBC2 Newsnight
[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...
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