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Le cinéma est politique: conversation Costa Gavras-Yanis Varoufakis – Mediapart
, 18/10/2017
Rencontre entre l’ancien ministre et celui qui s’apprête à le transformer en héros de cinéma. Costa-Gavras envisage en effet de tourner un film autour de ce bras de fer de 2015. « Je veux parler de l’émotion que j’ai eue en lisant ce livre, par son personnage principal – c’est quand même un personnage de […]
Capitalism is making itself obsolete – The Independent (reporting on a talk at UCL)
, 18/10/2017
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has claimed capitalism is coming to an end because it is making itself obsolete. The former economics professor told an audience at University College London that the rise of giant technology corporations and artificial intelligence will cause the current economic system to undermine itself. Mr Varoufakis, who took on EU institutions over Greek debt […]
‘I would like to live in a world where we’re all privileged’ – Interviewed by The Guardian, on the occasion of the publication of ‘Talking to My Daughter About the Economy’
, 16/10/2017
The economist Yanis Varoufakis was the finance minister in Greece for six tumultuous months in 2015, before resigning from the Syriza government. Last year he launched the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). He is also the author of several books. His latest is Talking to My Daughter About the Economy. Your new book, explaining the history […]
Le Monde – Yanis Varoufakis: « Macron a déjà échoué face à l’Allemagne »
, 13/10/2017
L’ex-ministre grec des finances de gauche radicale soutient le projet européen du président, mais désapprouve sa stratégie. LE MONDE ECONOMIE | 13.10.2017 à 10h56 • Mis à jour le 13.10.2017 à 14h47 | Propos recueillis par Marie Charrel Si elle ne change pas de logiciel, la zone euro court à sa perte, estime Yanis Varoufakis. Economiste anticonformiste, ministre des finances du gouvernement […]
Costa Gavras: I will make a film based on Adults in the Room
, 10/10/2017
Costa Gavras, whose films shaped the conscience of the internationalist struggle for democracy everywhere, yesterday issued the following statement – in the context of the launch of the Greek edition of my Adults in the Room. Needless to say I am chuffed and deeply grateful. When the crisis began, the tragedy that the Greek people are […]
DiEM25’s tour of Italy forges alliances & a plan for 2019
, 09/10/2017
Last week, DiEM25’s Yanis Varoufakis and Lorenzo Marsili toured Italy, meeting activists, movements, municipal coalitions and political figures across the Eurozone’s third largest economy to put forward our proposals for tackling Europe’s common problems, and to introduce our ongoing debate on DiEM25’s role in the 2019 European elections. Over five days our team visited six cities, […]
Why Europe Needs a New Deal, Not Breakup – op-ed in The Nation, with James K. Galbraith
, 07/10/2017
The American New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt’s first two terms combined the goals of financial stabilization, reconstruction, conservation, and employment—jobs for the jobless; public works; power systems and new industries, especially in the South; soil conservation and reforestation to battle the Dust Bowl; and a potent mix of regulations and insurance to assert public power […]
DiEM25’s European New Deal explained – video
, 07/10/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geGTs6PFW0A
People, Power & Varoufakis – VPRO documentary, now with English subtitles
, 07/10/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RurKArj81GM
Spain’s Crisis is Europe’s Opportunity – Project Syndicate op-ed, 6 OCT 2017
, 06/10/2017
The Catalonia crisis is a strong hint from history that Europe needs to develop a new type of sovereignty, one that strengthens cities and regions, dissolves national particularism, and upholds democratic norms. Imagining a pan-European democracy is the prerequisite for imagining a Europe worth saving. ATHENS – To revive the ailing European project, the ugly […]
“Mes 162 jours au coeur de l’Europe”. Review in L’Obs of ‘Adults in the Room’, by Pascal Riche
, 05/10/2017
Click here for the pdf of the review
Article on DiEM25 in the Boston Globe – by Thanassis Cambanis, 29th September 2017
, 29/09/2017
WHEN THE PUBLIC is disillusioned with an entire political culture, it’s not a problem that technocrats alone can fix. But an unlikely band of Greek reformers may have an answer for an unsettled Europe — and the entire Western world. Over the last seven decades, Western Europe, with support from the United States, built a liberal […]
Schäuble leaves but Schäuble-ism lives on
, 28/09/2017
Wolfgang Schäuble may heave left the finance ministry but his policy for turning the eurozone into an iron cage of austerity, that is the very antithesis of a democratic federation, lives on. What is remarkable about Dr Schäuble’s tenure was how he invested heavily in maintaining the fragility of the monetary union, rather than eradicating it in order […]
On negotiating with the EU & fiscal money – with Anatole Kaletsky & journalists from El Pais, Handelsblatt – Project Syndicate video
, 28/09/2017
Yanis Varoufakis discusses how to negotiate with the EU and his proposal to introduce fiscal money with Anatole Kaletsky, Co-Chairman of Gavekal Draganomics, David Alandete, Managing Editor of El Pais, and Torsten Riecke, Handelsblatt’s international correspondent.
Perspectives of Democracy & the German election | video | actitvism
, 23/09/2017
In this video, former finance minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, Yanis Varoufakis, provides his perspective on democracy and how his movement practices it internally. In addition Varoufakis talks about the context under which the European Union was formed and also surfaces concrete examples from the current period in how the EU employs double […]
To lead Europe Germany needs to come to terms with its crucial role in it – op-ed in Der Freitag (in German & in English), 21 SEP 2017
, 21/09/2017
Wahlkampf Die deutsche Rolle in Europa war kaum ein Thema – als werde alles so bleiben, wie es ist. Das aber ist ein Irrglaube Yanis Varoufakis | Ausgabe 38/2017 16 [For the English language original please scroll down.] Der Mitgründer der Bewegung DiEM25, Yanis Varoufakis, bemängelt die deutsche Selbstbezogenheit im Wahlkampf Foto: Pacific Press Agency/Imago Es ist normal, dass sich […]
On China – Talking with Project Syndicate’s Anatole Kaletsky, David Alandete (El Pais), Torsten Riecke (Handelsblatt’s)
, 20/09/2017
Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, discusses China’s growing role in Southern Europe and EU politics with Anatole Kaletsky, Co-Chairman of Gavekal Draganomics, David Alandete, Managing Editor of El Pais, and Torsten Riecke, Handelsblatt’s international correspondent. Published on Sep 20, 2017.
Discussing China’s role in Europe, with Anatole Kaletsky & journalists from El Pais, Handelsblatt – Project Syndicate video
, 20/09/2017
Yanis Varoufakis, discusses China’s growing role in Southern Europe and EU politics with Anatole Kaletsky, Co-Chairman of Gavekal Draganomics, David Alandete, Managing Editor of El Pais, and Torsten Riecke, Handelsblatt’s international correspondent.
Adults in the Room: The Sordid Tale of Greece’s Battle Against Austerity and the Troika – by Dean Baker, Huffington Post
, 15/09/2017
Yanis Varoufakis begins his account of his half year as Greece’s finance minister in the left populist Syriza government (Adults in the Room, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) with a description of a meeting with Larry Summers. According to Varoufakis, Summers explains that there are two types of politicians. There are those who are on the […]
Germany needs a frank debate, not this tepid election campaign – Op-ed in Deutsche Welle
, 13/09/2017
The Greek people are paying dearly for having been lulled into a false sense of security, writes former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Germans, he says, are laboring under the same illusion today. Complacency is a country’s worst enemy. My compatriots were, once upon a time, lulled into a false sense of having “made it.” I […]
DiEM25 gives a wake-up call to Europe’s establishment – Eye on Europe reports on DiEM25’s Bozar assembly, 9 September 2017
, 12/09/2017
At Bozar (Brussels) the movement co-founded by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis presented a critical account of the state of affairs in the European Union, which they fear at risk of disintegration, and their proposals to change it. “Europeans must set aside the propaganda coming from the Commission”. Brussels – Let’s change Europe now, […]
Germany needs a frank debate – Deutsche Welle op-ed (in English & German)
, 12/09/2017
OPINION Yanis Varoufakis: Germany needs a frank debate The Greek people are paying dearly for having been lulled into a false sense of security, writes former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Germans, he says, are laboring under the same illusion today. Complacency is a country’s worst enemy. My compatriots were, once upon a time, lulled into […]
‘We’re coming for you, Juncker!’ DiEM25 vows END to cosy existence of Brussels elite
, 11/09/2017
A NEW movement being spearheaded by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is vowing to shake up the cosy Brussels elite and threaten the jobs of euro bigwigs like Jean-Claude Juncker. By NICK GUTTERIDGE, BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT PUBLISHED: 13:54, Mon, Sep 11, 2017 | UPDATED: 22:11, Mon, Sep 11, 2017 [CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL SITE] Varoufakis: Juncker is in […]