Year: 2015
The Spectre of Democracy haunts Europe – in conversation with Phillip Adams, Late Night Live, ABC Radio National 26th Aug 2015
, 27/08/2015
In discussion with Phillip Adams, on my favourite radio program (LNL), on my recent Frangy address/manifesto for a campaign to Democratise the Eurozone as well as, of course, on the forthcoming snap Greek election.
The Athens Spring lives on! Speech at Frangy-en-Bresse, with Arnaud Montebourg
, 25/08/2015
On Sunday 23th August, I joined forces with Arnaud Montembourg in Frangy-en-Bresse (or Frangy-en-Grece as it was renamed for the day!) to put forward to the people of France a simple message: There is no alternative but the democratisation of the Eurozone! For the full text of my speech click here. And for a translation in […]
What happened in China? In a few words, from The Global Minotaur 2011,2013
, 25/08/2015
Greece is off the headlines, for now, as China’s crisis has taken over. In our globalised world, the two crises are utterly intertwined, both the repercussions of global capitalism’s 2008 ‘moment’. Here are some extracts from my The Global Minotaur, both the 2011 and the 2013 editions…
The Greek Plan for Growth & Recovery: Two documents the Ministry of Finance tabled in May and June 2015
, 20/08/2015
Now that Greece’s Third Memorandum of Understanding has passed (see here for my annotated version), after the SYRIZA government surrendered on 12th July 2015, it is perhaps of interest to compare the ‘Reform Agenda’ in that agreement with the agenda the Ministry of Finance had presented to the institutions on two occasions, in May and June […]
Bailout deal allows Greek oligarchs to maintain grip – The Guardian
, 18/08/2015
The Guardian summed up my annotated version of Greece’s Third MoU with this title. Click here for the Guardian’s webpage or read on…
A New Approach to Eurozone Sovereign Debt – op-ed in Project Syndicate
, 17/08/2015
My latest column for Project Syndicate is now out. Click here for the Project Syndicate page or read on:
My question to Christine Lagarde, Eurogroup 25th June 2015 – as narrated by Landon Thomas in the NYT
, 17/08/2015
During the 25th June 2015 Eurogroup, the institutions presented me, in the form of an effective utlimatum, with a comprehensive staff level agreement and funding plan (which I considered financially non-viable). It was the deal that Prime Minister Tsipras decided, on the following day, to put to the Greek people in the form of the now […]
Varoufakis and Lamont interviewed on Radio 4 on their peculiar political friendship
, 17/08/2015
Further to this piece on my unlikely friendship with Lord Lamont, the BBC’s Radio 4 interviewed us, together. To hear the interview, on World At One, click on the play button below.
Greece’s Third MoU (Memorandum of Understading) annotated by Yanis Varoufakis
, 17/08/2015
The Third Greek MoU is now enshrined in Greek Law. Written in troika-speak it is almost impossible to decypher by those not speaking this unappetising language. Click here for the complete MoU text annotated liberally by yours truly – in pdf form. It is best read in conjunction with my annotated version of the EuroSummit Agreement […]
Παρέμβαση στη Βουλή των Ελλήνων – 14 Αυγ. 2015
, 14/08/2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-MZohP4Gd4Άρθρο στο “thepressproject.gr” – “Ενότητα εν τη διαφωνία” – 14/08/2015
, 14/08/2015
ΕΠΙ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΙΚΟΥ: Ενότητα εν τη διαφωνία Για μήνες τώρα, στην ιερή Αίθουσα του Κοινοβουλίου, δέχομαι ακραίες λεκτικές επιθέσεις. Άκουσα απαιτήσεις να συρθώ σε εξεταστική επιτροπή επειδή, λέει, υπέγραψα… Μνημόνιο την 20η Φεβρουαρίου. Πιο πρόσφατα κάποιοι μου «απήγγειλαν»την κατηγορία της εσχάτης προδοσίας επειδή, ουσιαστικά, έκανα την δουλειά μου ως Υπ.Οικ. και επιχείρησα την ανάκτηση εθνικής κυριαρχίας […]
Παρέμβαση στη Βουλή των Ελλήνων – 13 Αυγ. 2015
, 13/08/2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-dDsiXcbmYVindicated, while Lagarde emerges a loser? – David Marsh in MarketWatch
, 04/08/2015
In his Monday column on MarketWatch David Marsh entitled his opinion piece: “Varoufakis vidicated, while Lagarde emerges as a loser”. Of course the point is not whether I have, or have not, been vindicated. The crucial issue concerns the viability, or otherwise, of the latest Greek deal. From day 1 I have been arguing that Ms […]
Greek Tragedy – by Christos Tsiolkas (in conversation with Yanis Varoufakis), MONTHLY magazine
, 03/08/2015
Novelist Christos Tsiolkas (The Slap, Baraccuda etc.) wrote this piece (for the Australian magazine MONTHLY) from a Greek-Australian perspective (after the two of us had talked extensively over the telephone). Click on the photo above or…
In conversation with El Pais (Claudi Pérez), the complete (long) transcript
, 02/08/2015
Claudi Pérez, of El Pais, inteviewed me in our Athens apartment last week. Here is the article that emerged recently in El Pais. The complete, unedited, transcript (in English) follows:
Death by Debt: My Response to The German Finance Ministry, by Jeffrey Sachs
, 01/08/2015
Dr. Ludger Schuknecht, senior economist at the Germany Finance Ministry, explains his ministry’s viewpoint regarding Greece. This viewpoint essentially holds that Eurozone countries should live within their means; adjust to their debt burdens; and take their reform medicine as needed. If they do so, they will be successful, as illustrated by Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. Greece […]
Something is rotten in the eurozone kingdom – my op-ed in the Financial Times
, 01/08/2015
Plan would have eased Greece’s chronic liquidity shortage, writes Yanis Varoufakis in the Financial Times. A paradox lurks in the foundations of the eurozone. Governments in the monetary union lack a central bank that has their back, while the central bank lacks a government to support it.
In favour of Varoufakis’ Plan B – by Paul Tyson
, 01/08/2015
In a recently released recording of a teleconference between Yanis Varoufakis and a group of hedge fund managers, Mr Varoufakis spoke frankly about the contingency plans he had developed when he was the Finance Minister.
Yanis Varoufakis is being pilloried for doing what had to be done – by Philippe Legrain in The Guardian
, 01/08/2015
For the Guardian site click here. Or…
Will the IMF throw the spanner in the works? – as I feared and Dr Schäuble hoped?
, 30/07/2015
IMF cannot join Greek rescue, board told … reports Peter Spiegel from Brussels in today’s Financial Times. He adds:
The Defeat of Europe – my piece in Le Monde Diplomatique
, 30/07/2015
Click on the image above for the LMD site. Or…
In… my defence – by Mohamed El Erian
, 30/07/2015
In Defense of Varoufakis by MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN Click here for the Project Syndicate site. Or…
A Most Peculiar Friendship
, 30/07/2015
Crises sever old bonds. But they also forge splendid new friendships. Over the past months one such friendship has struck me as a marvellous reflection of the new possibilities that Europe’s crisis has spawned. When I was living in Britain, between 1978 and 1988, Lord (then Norman) Lamont represented everything that I opposed. Even though I […]
Treason charges: What lurks behind the bizarre allegations
, 29/07/2015
The bizarre attempt to have me indicted me on… treason charges, allegedly for conspiring to push Greece out of the Eurozone, reflects something much broader.