Την 20η Ιουλίου 2017, το Πανεπιστήμιο του Σάσεξ είχε την καλοσύνη να με ανακηρύξει Επίτιμο Διδάκτορα. Η Καθηγήτρια Άνρεα Κόρνγολ, Πρόεδρος της Σχολής Διεθνών Σπουδών του πανεπιστημίου, παρουσιάζοντάς με την Συνέλευση και στον Πρύτανη εξήγησε τους λόγους που αποφασίστηκε η απονομή του εν λόγω τιμητικού διδακτορικού ως εξής: “Για την προσφορά του στην κατανόηση της […]
Interviews
Help separate truth from motivated error: My acceptance speech at Sussex University on the occasion of an honourary doctorate conferment
On 20th July 2017, the University of Sussex conferred upon me the degree of Doctor of the University Honoris Causa. Professor Andrea Cornwall, who kindly presented me to the Chancellor and the Congregation, explained the rationale of the award: “[F]or his contribution to our understanding of the global economy, for his advocacy of an authentic internationalism, […]
Συνέντευξη ΣΚΑΙ, με τον Γιώργο Αυτιά, για το παράλληλο σύστημα πληρωμών
ΑΝΤΙ ΣΧΟΛΙΟΥ: Κάποτε o Άπτον Σινκλαίρ είχε πει: “Μου είναι δύσκολο να κάνω κάποιον να καταλάβει κάτι όταν ο μισθός του εξαρτάται από το να μην το καταλάβει.” [‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.’]
Tο DiEM25 για τα 2 χρόνια μετά το ΟΧΙ στο δημοψήφισμα
Δείτε ακόμα: Πέντε συμπεράσματα από το Δημοψήφισμα του 2015
Why Europe is failing – video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y5ZjXwPxGU&feature=youtu.be&a
Interviewed by Chris Newlands for the Financial News – 19 June 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
“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 […]
Five talks on Power, Populism & the Future of Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFIyqertbKQ
A 90 minute exchange with Russell Brand on everything: politics, aesthetics, religion, dialectics
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Russel-Brand-podcast-Under-the-Skin-June-2017.mp3