Videos
Πως η Ευρώπη έπεσε στην αγκαλιά της πολεμοκαπηλείας, και τι πρέπει εμείς να κάνουμε – Ομιλία στην Ευρωβουλή 10/6/2025
, 14/06/2025
Πριν από ένα χρόνο, θα ξεκινούσα την ομιλία μου αυτή μ’ έναν θρήνο για τον, έως πρόσφατα, αδιανόητο μετασχηματισμό της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης από ένα οιωνοί Πρότζεκτ Ειρήνης σε Πρότζεκτ Πολέμου. Σήμερα δεν θα κάνω κάτι τέτοιο. Από πέρσι, η πολεμοκαπηλεία έχει εισχωρήσει στον ίδιο τον ιστό της Ένωσης, έχει παρεισφρήσει σε κάθε πολιτική της, έχει […]
The Economics of Europe’s Descent into Warmongering – and our duty now!
, 13/06/2025
On Tuesday, June 10 2025, I addressed a meeting at the European Parliament, an event organised by The Left and M5S Europa, on the theme of “The Economic Conditions for Peace”, alongside Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte. My talk can be watched and read here. [INTRODUCTION] A year ago, I would have started this speech with a lament […]
Exposing Keir Starmer’s military spending scam – interview with Declassified UK
, 05/06/2025
Just days into his premiership, Keir Starmer announced the commissioning of a “root and branch” Strategic Defence Review (SDR), writes Kate Hudson. Under the leadership of Lord Robertson, former defence secretary and NATO secretary general, the review panel claims to have broken with tradition, by including a much wider range of participants than usual – […]
How Europe’s sheer stupidity combined with its ethical downfall to underwrite Israel’s genocide of Palestinians – Middle East Eye
, 20/05/2025
“A mixture of stupidity and nastiness… The liberal establishment is primarily responsible for the genocide of the Palestinians.” In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Yanis Varoufakis unleashes a fierce critique of Western liberalism, and tells us why he feels that the global system is in crisis. This episode explores the facade of Western moral superiority, the […]
Our New Economic World Order & Europe’s Suicide: In discussion with Glenn Diesen
, 13/05/2025
The hitherto US-centric economic model has exhausted itself, and Trump’s government is pushing to restructure the international economic architecture to maintain US hegemony. China is the main rival in this new reality, while the Europeans are becoming an impoverished appendage to the US. The Europeans could chart a more favourable path forward, except that they […]
UNHERD’s Freddie Sayers interviews Y. Varoufakis & W. Munchau on Europe’s prospects in the era of Trump
, 11/05/2025
UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers interviews renowned economist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Eurointelligence founder Wolfgang Münchau as they dissect the escalating trade war between Europe and the United States. With the US recently striking a so-called trade deal with the UK, and news of India signing a comprehensive agreement with the UK, tensions […]
Some thoughts on the 80th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism
, 08/05/2025
Eighty years ago today, the monstrous machinery of the Third Reich was finally ground to dust. The swastika was torn from the Reichstag, the death camps liberated, and Europe—bloodied, traumatised, but unbowed—emerged from history’s darkest night. It was not merely a military victory; it was the triumph of solidarity over fascism, of internationalism over racial […]
NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM – Project Syndicate op-ed & video
, 15/04/2025
Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it prevailed 50 years ago. Its great advantage was its sharp deviation from classical liberalism. Even though it paid tribute to liberal thinkers, neoliberalism shared neither their method nor their concept of the market. Today, we are on the cusp of another, equally profound, ideological innovation. Unlike […]
On the political economics and the history behind Donald Trump’s tariff war – Politics JOE
, 09/04/2025
In this interview with Oli Dugmore, for Politics JOE, I had a chance to lay out – in around 30 minutes – the political economics and economic history behind Donald Trump’s tariff war. As I said to Oli, those of us who oppose Trump have a duty to understand what his team are up to […]
How will Europe, Britain & China react to the Trump shock: On TIMES Radio & Unherd’s Undercurrents
, 03/04/2025
In this interview, I argue that how Trump’s Shock pans out will largely depend on whether Europe and China will act in concert or turn against one another. As for the UK, Trump has given Brexit a major boost. And here is another interview with Emily Jeshinsky of Unherd’s Undercurrents on the same subject: Trump’s […]
Will the Trump Shock prove as momentous as the Nixon Shock? UNHERD op-ed & on BBC tv
, 03/04/2025
“My philosophy, Mr President, is that all foreigners are out to screw us and it’s our job to screw them first.” With these words, the US Treasury Secretary convinced the President to deliver a colossal shock to the global economy. In the words of one of the President’s men, the objective was to trigger “a […]
Το ευρωπαϊκό όνειρο είναι νεκρό. Απόψε ξεκινά ένα νέο όνειρο – Εθνικό Θέατρο Βρυξελλών, DiEM25 7-3-2025
, 25/03/2025
Κάποτε είχαμε ένα όνειρο. Ένα όνειρο για το πώς θα μπορούσε να είναι η Ευρώπη. Μια Ευρώπη της κοινής ευημερίας, της αξιοπρέπειας, της ελευθερίας – μια Ευρώπη της Ειρήνης και της Ελπίδας. Αυτό το όνειρο εξαϋλώθηκε, διαλύθηκε, είναι νεκρό. Γιατί; Τι στα κομμάτια συνέβη στην Ευρώπη; Ξέρουμε τι συνέβη στην Ευρώπη! Ξέρουμε γιατί πολιτικοί καταφθάνουν από παντού […]
Trump’s tariff chaos explained – TIMES RADIO
, 09/03/2025
“He wants to reduce the value of the dollar… in order to make American exports more competitive and imports into the United States more expensive. At the same time he wants to maintain the hegemony of the dollar.” Yanis Varoufakis explains the secret behind Trump’s tariff strategy, and his new obsession with cryptocurrency. This interview […]
Ukraine, Europe, China and Technofeudalism – in conversation with Cyrus Janssen
, 01/03/2025
Donald Trump has upended the narrative on the Ukraine War. But what does it mean for the future of Europe? Plus a lot more on NATO, China, the US dollar, technofeudalism and our duty to stop the Palestinian genocide while fighting antisemitism. 0:00 – Intro to Yanis Varoufakis 2:26 – Did Ukraine Lose the War? […]
Trump, Europe’s Collapse & Why Liberals Keep Losing – interviewed by Rania Khalek
, 25/02/2025
Trump’s return isn’t just chaos, it’s a calculated strategy. While liberals dismiss him, Trump understands raw economic power in a way centrists fail to grasp. What is his master plan, and how could it backfire? Meanwhile, Musk & other billionaires are the new ruling class. As capitalism dies, we enter technofeudalism, where corporate overlords control […]
Το απεχθές παράδοξο των γερμανικών ομοσπονδιακών εκλογών του 2025 – Euronews
, 24/02/2025
Αυτές οι γερμανικές ομοσπονδιακές εκλογές μόνο ως ένα αρνητικό παράδοξο μπορούν να χαρακτηριστούν: Ταυτόχρονα ασήμαντες – με την έννοια ότι θα καταλήξουν σε μια άλλη παραλλαγή του ίδιου, σχεδόν μόνιμου, συνασπισμού Χριστιανοδημοκρατών και Σοσιαλδημοκρατών, ίσως με μια μικρή δόση ψευδο-Πράσινων – τον ίδιο δηλαδή συνασπισμό που έβαλε τη Γερμανία στο δρόμο προς την συνεχόμενη αποτελμάτωση. […]
The sordid paradox that was the 2025 German federal election – Euronews
, 24/02/2025
This German federal election is a paradox: Simultaneously irrelevant – in the sense that it will result into another variant of the same, quasi permanent, coalition of Christian & Social Democrats, perhaps with a splattering of the pseudo-Greens – the same coalition that put Germany on the road to a secular slump, will continue to […]
Γιατί ΜέΡΑ25 σήμερα; Από την εκδήλωση στον Πειραιά 21η Φλεβάρη 2025
, 22/02/2025
Η ομιλία στον Πειραϊκό Σύνδεσμο του Γραμματέα του ΜέΡΑ25 στην εκδήλωση της ενωτικής πρωτοβουλίας ΜέΡΑ25 – Ανατρεπτική Οικολογική Αριστερά. Θέμα: “Η Αντίσταση δρόμος για τη ζωή και τη δικαιοσύνη”.
How Europe succumbed to the US & the financial sector and now fights their wars
, 21/02/2025
Jakob de Jonge sits down with Yanis Varoufakis to discuss the structural flaws of the European Union, the rise of warmongering, and the complicity of Europe’s political mindset in the genocide in Gaza. What is the path forward? Varoufakis argues that resistance is not only necessary—it is both meaningful and, as he puts it, “fun […]
Η αυτοπροδοσία της Ευρώπης: Πόλεμος, Λιτότητα, Παλαιστίνη κι ο Αγώνας για Ειρήνη – Ομιλία στο Μόναχο, 15-2-2025
, 21/02/2025
Φίλες και φίλοι, πολίτες απ’ όλο τον κόσμο, συνοδοιπόροι. Είχαμε, κάποτε, ένα όνειρο. Ήταν το όνειρο του τι θα μπορούσε να είναι η Ευρώπη. Δεν ονειρευτήκαμε την ενιαία αγορά, τον κοινοτικό προϋπολογισμό, το κοινό νόμισμα. Όχι, ονειρευτήκαμε την Ευρώπη ως ένα Πρότζεκτ Ειρήνης με Δικαιοσύνη. Εκείνο το όνειρο χάθηκε, εξατμίστηκε, διαλύθηκε υπό το κρύο και […]
Europe’s Self-Betrayal: War, Austerity, Palestine and the Struggle for Peace – Munich Speech, 15-2-2025
, 21/02/2025
Friends, Germans, citizens from all over, sisters and brothers. We once had a dream. It was the dream of what Europe could have been: Not a single market, a single currency or a common budget. No, we dreamt of Europe as a Peace with Justice Project. That dream has gone, it evaporated in the cold […]
The Argentinian President’s crypto scam exploited the dangerous illusion of apolitical money
, 21/02/2025
On Friday 14th February, President Milei of Argentina tweeted about the $LIBRA coin, encouraging his followers to buy it on the grounds that it would “help fund small businesses and start-ups”. As if that weren’t enough, he shared a link for people to buy it online. Naturally, within a few hours, $LIBRA’s price shot up. […]