Interviews
The West needs a New Deal – BBC2 Newsnight
, 07/02/2017
This video, prepared by and for BBC Newsnight, foreshadows DiEM25’s European New Deal – which will be made available in full during February. The script follows:
Brian Eno & Yanis Varoufakis: The meaning of ‘Value’ – King’s College, London 30/1/2017
, 07/02/2017
Brian Eno’s talk Yanis Varoufakis talk Discussion NEW: A 3 minute edit of Varoufakis’ talk with a Brian Eno soundtrack (Thursday afternoon) – thanks Jason Ghionis!
Join DiEM25’s UK launch this coming Saturday, 28/1, Conway Hall London
, 22/01/2017
Introductory speeches by Brian Eno, Yanis Varoufakis, Elif Shafak, Srecko Horvat & Agnieszka Wiśniewska. To be followed by a two hour interactive meeting for the purposes of establishing DiEM25 UK as a movement in every British city and town. Our purpose? To harness the discontent that surfaced during 2016 in order to make 2017 the year […]
Congratulations Benoit Hamon!
, 22/01/2017
On 9th January 2017 I had the pleasure of linking up with Benoit Hamon in Paris, to discuss with him DiEM25’s Progressive Agenda for Europe and, in particular, our policy of constructive disobedience. See below for a report of that meeting. It is with great pleasure that I heard the news that Benoit has […]
Lunch with The Globe and Mail, in discussion with Eric Reguly
, 22/01/2017
by Eric Reguly for The Globe and Mail Having lost the old fight over Greece’s financial future, Mr. Varoufakis is focused on a different cause: preserving the European Union Click here for The Globe and Mail site and here for a pdf of the article. Alternatively…
Greek drama in review – on the Rubin Report
, 14/01/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DP_v8f8ihs
Becoming popular by opposing populism: A progressive’s task – The Guardian
, 20/12/2016
A few days ago I received an email from the Guardian: “We’re putting a panel together of writers and thinkers following the announcement that Jeremy Corbyn is planning to relaunch his image and policies as a leftwing populist. We are asking for 300 words in response to the question, “What should Corbyn’s leftwing populism look […]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide through a Collapsing Europe – by DiEM25ers Yanis Varoufakis & Srećko Horvat
, 13/12/2016
This event took place on 3rd December 2016 in Zagreb’s magnificent National Theatre in front of an audience of at least 1200 people. Thanks Zagreb!
Democratising Europe – interviewed by James Lock for NOW THEN magazine
, 10/12/2016
In recent years we have seen far more of the workings behind the curtain of neoliberalism than we ever have before. This is in part, I believe, due to the work of Yanis Varoufakis. A Greek economist educated in Britain, Varoufakis first made headlines for his integral role as Finance Minister for the Syriza government […]
Reflections on the nature & causes of global financial uncertainty – Amsterdam 4th DEC 2016
, 07/12/2016
On 4th December 2016 I delivered the keynote at the RiskMinds International risk management conference in Amsterdam. A summary of my talk, compiled by the organisers, follows.
Austerity doesn’t work, in <4 mins - from the Cambridge Union
, 02/12/2016
Click here for an 8 minute version, recorded at a later Cambridge Union event
Trump, the Dragon, and the Minotaur – Project Syndicate op-ed
, 28/11/2016
ATHENS – If Donald Trump understands anything, it is the value of bankruptcy and financial recycling. He knows all about success via strategic defaults, followed by massive debt write-offs and the creation of assets from liabilities. But does he grasp the profound difference between a developer’s debt and the debt of a large economy? […]
Austerity in 8 minutes: Why it does not work. Why it is still practised
, 23/11/2016
This speech was part of a Cambridge Union debate on ‘This House Has Lost Confidence in Austerity’. See below for the video of the whole debate.
How to mobilise under & against President Trump – on WBUR Open Source Radio
, 18/11/2016
Yanis Varoufakis, Ralph Nader, Tim Barker, Donna Murch and Simon Schama, interviewed by Christopher Lydon.
Angela Merkel’s last chance to deliver a Speech of Hope for Europe – Hamburg Keynote (audio), 15 NOV 2016
, 16/11/2016
On the same day that I addressed an audience of more than 1000 DiEM25 members in Hamburg, I was also kindly invited by Joachim and Renate Pawlik to address the Pawlik Group‘s Annual Conference. In my Keynote Address to the business representatives attending, I spoke of the need for a radical unionist campaign to counter […]
PSOE’s Penchant for Repeating PASOK’s Disappearing Act – El Diario (English & Spanish texts)
, 02/11/2016
el PASOK mordió el polvo por participar en el derrocamiento de su líder y, curiosamente, el PSOE ha tomado el mismo camino. EFE [For the El Diario site click here] History may repeat itself but never as quickly or as mindlessly as it does within Europe’s social democratic family. Spain’s socialists jettisoned Pedro Sánchez […]
The Universal Right to Capital Income – Project Syndicate op-ed
, 31/10/2016
ATHENS – The right to laziness has traditionally been only for the propertied rich, whereas the poor have had to struggle for decent wages and working conditions, unemployment and disability insurance, universal health care, and other accoutrements of a dignified life. The idea that the poor should be granted an unconditional income sufficient to […]
Varoufakis & DiEM25 a La Gabbia Open
, 28/10/2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Tz6iSqS9A
On BBC Question Time from Hartlepool – 20th October 2016
, 22/10/2016
On the panel are Conservative former chancellor Ken Clarke MP, Labour’s shadow education secretary Angela Rayner MP, runner up in the UKIP leadership election Lisa Duffy, DiEM25 initiator and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and the previous owner of the Daily Telegraph Conrad Black.
Europe’s Ugly Future: A review of Varoufakis, Galbraith & Stiglitz – Foreign Affairs
, 19/10/2016
Muddling Through Austerity By Andrew Moravcsik – click here for the Foreign Affairs website In This Review And the Weak Suffer What They Must? – Yanis Varoufakis Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and Europe – James K. Galbraith The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe – Joseph Stiglitz
How do you solve a problem like Europe? Interviewed by Eurofinance
, 17/10/2016
Friday 23/9/2016 (click here for the Eurofinance site & here for a related Keynote speech) How long can Europe go on like this? In mid-July Germany sold €4.038bn of 10-year zero-coupon bonds with a yield of minus 0.05 per cent. This added a few more billions to the more than €4.25 trillion euros-worth of euro-zone government bonds […]
