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What do Yanis Varoufakis and Marine Le Pen have in common? – BBC Newsnight

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Populist parties are expected to make gains in the EU elections – but can anything unite progressives? Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F Former Greek finance minister and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe movement, Yanis Varoufakis says it’s the ‘Green New Deal’ and climate change. Varoufakis is spearheading a transnational coalition called the European ...

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Populist parties are expected to make gains in the EU elections – but can anything unite progressives?


Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F



Former Greek finance minister and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe movement, Yanis Varoufakis says it’s the ‘Green New Deal’ and climate change.



Varoufakis is spearheading a transnational coalition called the European Spring – their central policy is a proposal for a pan-European Green New Deal.



But politicians like Marine Le Pen say “You can’t speak about environmentalism if you’re defending an ultra-liberal model”



Gabriel Gatehouse met Varoufakis and Le Pen on the campaign trail.



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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.

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