Thursday , March 28 2024
Home / Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World / “The EU declared war and Theresa May played along” – Interview in The NewStatesman

“The EU declared war and Theresa May played along” – Interview in The NewStatesman

Summary:
In 2016, shortly before the EU referendum, Yanis Varoufakis warned that the UK was destined for a “Hotel California Brexit”: it could check out but it could never leave. The former Greek finance minister spoke from experience. In 2015, his efforts to end austerity – “fiscal waterboarding” – were thwarted by the EU (a struggle recorded in his memoir Adults in the Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment). Theresa May’s draft Brexit deal confirmed Varoufakis’s prophecy: the UK would be condemned to purgatory. With fortuitous timing, on the evening that May’s agreement was published, Varoufakis delivered an Oxford Union lecture on Europe’s future. The 57-year-old Marxist and game theorist wryly remarked

Topics:
Yanis Varoufakis considers the following as important: , , , , ,

This could be interesting, too:

Michael Hudson writes China in Charts

Michael Hudson writes China: Local Flowers Bloom

Michael Hudson writes Europe’s Loss is America’s Gain

Michael Hudson writes Pathways to Solutions

Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *