Interviews
On China as a patient investor – Project Syndicate Video
, 27/10/2017
With President Xi Jinping’s signature ‘Belt and Road’ initiative gaining momentum, more countries will be negotiating with China for inward investment in infrastructure. Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek Finance Minister, says that his own experience was highly encouraging. Greece and China, two ancient civilizations, two countries whose peoples have had a long experience and quite […]
Interview for VOX with Sean Illing, occasioned by ‘Adults in the Room’
, 24/10/2017
“The alternative is a gigantic dystopia, because the way we are moving today is creating nothing but hopelessness and despair and a shrinking middle class.” Those aren’t the words of Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. They’re from someone who watched his nation get hammered first by a financial crisis not solely of its own making […]
Did the Greek crisis contribute to Brexit & Trump? Interviewed at Radio WhoWhatWhy
, 20/10/2017
After the world financial crisis of 2007/2008, Greece became the world’s Lehman Brothers. In 2010, France, Germany and all other major European economic forces tried to impose loans upon Greece that it could never pay back and, some Greeks claim, were really a way to bail out French and German banks. According to former Greek […]
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 […]
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, […]
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.
“Προαπαιτούμενα ελπίδας” – Ομιλία Γ. Βαρουφάκη στην Πάτρα 25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
, 25/09/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmi1HxPOKo DiEM25 Greece Το DiEM25 και ο Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης βρέθηκαν στο θέατρο Royal στην Πάτρα που γέμισε με ανθρώπους κάθε ηλικίας που θέλησαν να ακούσουν από κοντά την πρόταση του κινήματος για την αντιμετώπιση της κρίσης στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη. Για περισσότερα διαβάστε εδώ: http://bit.ly/2hvSXSl
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 […]
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.
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 […]
On a radical vision for Brexit – interview with the New Statesman
, 01/09/2017
I warned Jeremy Corbyn about Brexit – now Labour must regain its radicalism Yanis Varoufakis on a radical vision for Brexit. 1st September 2017 (Click here for the original NS site) From the beginning of my conversations on Brexit with the Labour leadership, I advocated a “radical Remain” stance: the UK should be for the […]
The Great Crash (2007/8) ten years on – talking on BBC Radio 4’s World At One special program
, 11/08/2017
In this BBC World at One program dedicated to the Crash of 2007-8, I try, in the space of two and a half minutes, to explain why those momentous events, ten years ago, changed the world in a manner that it no longer makes sense in terms common prior to 2007. Of why I claim […]
Για την έξοδο στις αγορές. Στον ΣΚΑΙ, με τον Νίκο Ευαγγελάτο. Τον Απρίλιο του 2014!
, 26/07/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqAVFH4meGw
Insolvent Greece goes to market 2.0
, 24/07/2017
Why do I refuse to be impressed by the news of Greece’s return to the markets? “It is because the Greek state and the Greek banks remain deeply insolvent. And, their return to the money markets is a harbinger of the next terrible phase of Greece’s crisis, rather than a cause for celebration”. The above was […]
Βοηθήστε να διαχωρίζεται η Αλήθεια από το Υποκινούμενο Ψεύδος – Ομιλία αποδοχής επίτιμου διδακτορικού από το Πανεπιστήμιο του Σάσσεξ
, 23/07/2017
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 […]
Help separate truth from motivated error: My acceptance speech at Sussex University on the occasion of an honourary doctorate conferment
, 23/07/2017
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
, 17/07/2017
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
, 05/07/2017
Δείτε ακόμα: Πέντε συμπεράσματα από το Δημοψήφισμα του 2015
Why Europe is failing – video
, 30/06/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y5ZjXwPxGU&feature=youtu.be&a
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 […]