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2nd anniversary of the OXI vote & our parallel payments system: Its importance confirmed by the oligarchic press’ continuing, ritualistic distortions
, 05/07/2017
Today, on the anniversary of the stupendous NO with which 62% of Greek voters responded to a third predatory loan ultimatum from Greece’s ‘official’ lenders (the troika: IMF, ECB, EU), Greece’s oligarchic press – in cahoots with the troika itself – is hard at work in its attempt to demonise the people of Greece for having dared […]
Adults in the Room – reviewed by Adam Tooze (Columbia University)
, 02/07/2017
Reading Varoufakis: Frustrated Strategist of Greek Financial Deterrence (click here for the original site) by Adam Tooze Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. He is currently at work on a history of the global financial crisis 2008-2018, which will appear […]
Why Europe is failing – video
, 30/06/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y5ZjXwPxGU&feature=youtu.be&a
Europe’s Gradualist Fallacy – Project Syndicate op-ed
, 28/06/2017
ATHENS – Europe is at the mercy of a common currency that not only was unnecessary for European integration, but that is actually undermining the European Union itself. So what should be done about a currency without a state to back it – or about the 19 European states without a currency that they control? […]
On Snowden, Putin & NATO
, 27/06/2017
Extracts from an event that took place on 3rd December 2016 in Zagreb’s National Theatre.
Martin Wolf, in The Financial Times, on ‘Adults in the Room’: “A tragedy because Varoufakis was – and is – right. The bulk of Greek debt should indeed be cancelled outright.”
, 24/06/2017
This is a superbly written account of the struggle to alleviate the austerity imposed upon the Greek people by the eurozone. Greece, argues Varoufakis, has been put in a debtors’ prison and robbed of autonomy and dignity for the indefinite future. Critics would argue that he failed as finance minister in 2015 because he was […]
Interviewed by Chris Newlands for the Financial News – 19 June 2017
, 21/06/2017
It is no surprise that Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, turns up to our interview without a tie. The 56-year-old famously arrived at Downing Street in 2015 for a meeting with the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, with his shirt untucked. More surprising is that the left-wing economist, who led negotiations […]
The markets will not fix themselves – interviewed by Emma Walden for FundForum
, 19/06/2017
“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 […]
Looking back in anger – review of Adults in the Room, The Hindu Times
, 19/06/2017
A former minister’s account of how Greece handled a financial meltdown is a tell-all political memoir like no other G. Sampath Whether it is agricultural policies that hurt farmers’ interests or labour ‘reforms’ that erode workers’ rights, or welfare cuts that hurt the poor, it has been seen time and again in democracies around the […]
On the eve of the Brexit negotiations’ commencement – on BBC Radio 4’s BH program
, 18/06/2017
Sunday 18th June 2017
Five talks on Power, Populism & the Future of Europe
, 17/06/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFIyqertbKQ
A 90 minute exchange with Russell Brand on everything: politics, aesthetics, religion, dialectics
, 16/06/2017
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Russel-Brand-podcast-Under-the-Skin-June-2017.mp3
DiEM25’s New Deal for Greece
, 16/06/2017
Yesterday, the Eurogroup came up with another fudge, another extend-and-pretend loan tranche, for Greece. It is, as this annotated version of the Eurogroup statement explains, a further boost to Greece’s never-ending crisis. Greece’s creditors, the EU and the IMF, are refusing even to discuss Greece’s recovery, Greece’s escape from debtor’s prison. So, what should be done? DiEM25 […]
The Annotated 15th June 2017 Eurogroup statement on Greece
, 16/06/2017
Extending (again) the extending-and-pretending Eurogroup policy on Greece’s never-ending crisis Back in August 2015, while sitting gloomily in the Greek Parliament during the sad, long night leading to the voting in of the 3rd MoU, I found solace in annotating the MoU’s text. Last night, I felt the need to repeat that wretched ritual once […]
LIBERATION: Bruno Le Maire dans les pas de Yánis Varoufákis?
, 14/06/2017
Le ministre de l’Economie va proposer une indexation du remboursement de la dette grecque en fonction de la croissance du pays. Neuf thérapies en forme d’austérité budgétaire, trois plans d’aides, un changement de gouvernement et, au bout du compte, un énorme fiasco. Malgré l’obstination de la «troïka» (BCE, FMI et Commission européenne), qui n’a cessé d’imposer (le pistolet […]
der Freitag: Eine neue Partei für Europa
, 14/06/2017
Eine neue Partei für Europa DiEM 25 Ein radikales und zugleich seriöses Programm, gute Leute, ökonomische Expertise: Wird Yanis Varoufakis’ Bewegung zur Konkurrenz für die Linke in Deutschland? „Ein anderes Europa ist möglich“: Dafür kämpfen viele, aber bisher noch keine transnationale Partei Löscht eure Paypal-Konten und helft, das Monopol privater Finanzkonzerne über Europas Zahlungsverkehr zu […]
What lies behind the euro crisis, Brexit & Trump: Keynote at the FundForum International, Berlin & a discussion with Megan Greene
, 12/06/2017
Keynote at the FundForum International conference in Berlin, 12th June 2017. Followed by a discussion with Megan Greene.
On Documenta 14, Athens – in conversation with iLiana Fokianaki, Art Agenda
, 12/06/2017
“We Come Bearing Gifts”—iLiana Fokianaki and Yanis Varoufakis on Documenta 14 Athens Created in 1955 by artist and curator Arnold Bode, Documenta sought to advance the cultural reconstruction of Germany within the postwar European order. Reoccurring every five years, it has since unfolded into a periodic forum for contemporary art. When Adam Szymczyk was appointed artistic director […]
Jeremy Corbyn’s night was one for the true believers. Onwards now!
, 09/06/2017
In September 2015, soon after Jeremy Corbyn’s election, I was asked to offer advice to the freshly elected Labour leader. My response was, following our experiences in Greece of defeating a resurgent, oligarchic media twice during that year: Do not get scared by the character assassination attempts of the systemic media. The systemic media will try […]
DiEM25 supports Jeremy Corbyn & John McDonnell – except in our own special way!
, 07/06/2017
After DiEM25 published its collective decision to back fifteen Parliamentary candidates in tomorrow’s UK General Election, we received some interesting missives – mostly critical that included non-Labour candidates, including (lo and behold) Nick Clegg. This is a welcome ‘backlash’, in the sense that it gives us an opportunity to put things straight. DiEM25 was not […]
The 15 parliamentary candidates DiEM25 endorses for Thursday’s UK General Election
, 06/06/2017
DiEM25 was formed to build a Progressive International across Europe. The UK, especially since Brexit prevailed in last year’s referendum, is a major battleground for European democracy. The way Brexit is handled will be crucial for the future of Britain but also for European peoples far and wide. DiEM25 could not be absent from this election campaign. […]
Jane Goodall’s review of Adults in the Room – Insider Story
, 30/05/2017
Dragged behind a chariot, watched by the crowd If you studied economics at Sydney University in the 1990s, you might have had the good fortune to be taught in first year by a charismatic young lecturer who earned the nickname of the Greek God. Yanis Varoufakis, who in his youth bore some resemblance to John […]
ADULTS IN THE ROOM
, 30/05/2017
What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe’s hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power. ‘One of the greatest political memoirs of all time’ (Guardian) The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller Varoufakis sparked one of the most […]
El Confidential: ¿Qué fue de Varufakis?
, 30/05/2017
Creó un movimiento paneuropeo desde el que diseñar su regreso: Diem25, con sucursales ya en capitales europeas. También en Madrid. Sus miembros decidirán si se presenta o no a las elecciones 30.05.2017 – 05:00 H. Yanis Varufakis desembarca de nuevo en Grecia después de una travesía por el desierto que ha durado casi dos años. […]