Interviews
Interview by Nuit Debout's own social media
, 22/04/2016
Published on Apr 16, 2016 Yanis Varoufakis sur TVDebout, interviewé par l’AlterJT ! Lors de la Nuit Debout, L’Alter JT a rencontré Yanis Varoufakis, ex- ministre grec et fondateur du mouvement DIEM 25.
Yanis Varoufakis et Alain Badiou: la rencontre – Ce soir (ou jamais !) – 15/04/16
, 19/04/2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZ2FUCYHwcOwen Jones meets Yanis Varoufakis | 'Europe is staring into the abyss'
, 16/04/2016
This interview-discussion was recorded at Union Chapel, Islington, on 7th April 2016
Is Finance Fit To Purpose?
, 14/04/2016
Yanis Varoufakis speaking at John McDonnell’s Economic Lecture Series Event, City of London, 30th March 2016
My statement on the Jan Böhmermann case
, 14/04/2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fs4bzNQg1AAn Agenda for a Democratic, Recovering Europe: At the European House of Ambrosetti, 9th April 2016
, 13/04/2016
This panel, organised by the House of Ambrosetti (Cernobbio), included: Martin Wolf (Chair), Jyrki Katainejn (Vice President of the European Commission), Yves Mersch (ECB Executive Board Member), Yanis Varoufakis (DiEM25), Jens Spahn (State Minister, Finance Ministry, Germany)
Answering a Slovenian journalist's questions on the Athens Spring
, 11/04/2016
When Syriza won the elections in Greece in January 2015, the Slovenian right wing leader, obviously afraid that Slovenia’s New Left could follow its steps, said: Luckily this experiment will fail in Greece and will not be put into practice in Slovenia. Any comment?
Der Spiegel op-ed: Endgame for the IMF-EU Feud over Greece’s Debt
, 11/04/2016
For the Der Spiegel site click here. Otherwise… The feud between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European side of Greece’s troika of creditors is old news. However, Wikileaks’ publication of a dialogue between key IMF players suggests that we are approaching something of a hazardous endgame.
THE IRISH TIMES reviews ‘And The Weak…’
, 10/04/2016
For the site of The Irish Times click here. Otherwise…
Brexit would be the worst of all worlds – at THE GUARDIAN LIVE event
, 10/04/2016
To listen to the debate, click For THE GUARDIAN site, click here. Otherwise…
Michael Gove’s Review (The Times) of ‘And the Weak…’
, 10/04/2016
Click here for a pdf of Michael Gove’s review of And The Weak Suffer What They Must?
Guardian Long Read – Why we must save the EU
, 10/04/2016
5th April 2016. For The Guardian site, click here. Otherwise…
Telegraph profile – by Mick Brown
, 10/04/2016
For The Telegraph site, click here. Otherwise… ‘Europe is too important to be left to its clueless rulers’
Discussing Panama papers & UK referendum – Channel 4 News, 4 April 2016
, 05/04/2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZjqicN8ZugOn BBC Radio 4’s, Start of the Week, with Andrew Marr and friends
, 05/04/2016
/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/starttheweek-20160404-greeceandtheeurozonewithyanisvaroufakis.mp3Lectio Magistralis (video) & Ugo Mattei on Varoufakis as economist – University of Torino
, 25/03/2016
Click here to watch the video of the Lectio Magistralis entitled: DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE – The Political Economics of an Epic Struggle. March 17, Torino, Italy. Professor Ugo Mattei’s eulogy follows below. From Abstraction to Phenomenology in Social Theory: Yanis Varoufakis the Economist di UGO MATTEI.* We are here to honor a great economist a very successful academic, […]
QUARTZ Magazine – DiEM25’s plan to save the European Union from itself
, 24/03/2016
[Click here for the Quartz site] After years of economic turmoil, a near-Grexit, a looming Brexit, and a refugee crisis that challenges the very principle of open borders, it’s safe to say that the European Union is struggling. According to Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s unforgettable former minister of finance, the only way to stop the EU’s […]
DiEM25 in Italy – watch video and sign the Transparency Petition
, 23/03/2016
ROME, 23rd March 2016 DiEM25 in Italy was launched, along with DiEM25’s TRANSPARENCY IN EUROPE, NOW! campaign. Watch the video below, join DiEM25 and sign the TRANSPARENCY IN EUROPE, NOW! petition!
La Repubblica: Diem25, un movimento per superare il fallimento dell’Europa
, 20/03/2016
For a copy of the (longer) interview in English, click: Original answers by Yanis Varoufakis, in English, to La Repubblica, 19 March 2016. Click here the LA REPUBBLICA site (Italian), or…
Professorship Honoris Causa, International University College of Torino – report in La Stampa
, 19/03/2016
Folla all’università di Torino per la lectio magistralis dell’ex ministro che racconta i duelli con Schäuble: «Gli dissi che le sue idee erano ottime per il Partito comunista cinese» SEPPE SALVAGGIULO, TORINO – Click here for La Stampa’s website or…
L’Union européenne est en train de s’écrouler – L’ Echo
, 14/03/2016
L’ancien ministre grec des Finances Yanis Varoufakis est désormais à la tête d’un mouvement paneuropéen qui veut agir pour plus de démocratie et de transparence. Publicité
Salmond’s ‘big mistake’ – in The Sunday Times
, 14/03/2016
The former Greek minister says that the stance on sterling was a serious strategic error in the fight for independence, writes Michael Glackin. Click here.