Yanis Varoufakis's Blog, page 137

A Call to American Friends on the day of the US Presidential Election

By Thomas Seibert and Yanis Varoufakis, members of DiEM25’s Coordinating Collective As in the case of Brexit, we refuse to respond in a binary manner (remain or leave, Clinton or Trump) to the question facing voters.For us, Clinton and Trump … Continue reading →

How the EU’s Greek Tragedy Became a British Farce – by James K. Galbraith

[Originally published in Zocalo] British citizens took to the polls to cast their “Leave” ballots—and their grievances—in the now-infamous Brexit vote last June, seeking to escape the overarching power of the European Union. Their triumph stunned British and global elites, … Continue reading →

PSOE’s Penchant for Repeating PASOK’s Disappearing Act – El Diario (English & Spanish texts)

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 … Continue reading →

The Universal Right to Capital Income – Project Syndicate op-ed

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 … Continue reading →

Varoufakis & DiEM25 a La Gabbia Open

 Filed under: DiEM

On BBC Question Time from Hartlepool – 20th October 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 … Continue reading →

Europe’s Ugly Future: A review of Varoufakis, Galbraith & Stiglitz – Foreign Affairs

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 … Continue reading →

How do you solve a problem like Europe? Interviewed by Eurofinance

Friday 23 September 2016 (in the context of this 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 … Continue reading →

Brexit & the Future of Europe – Keynote at Eurofinance Conference, Vienna, 14/10/2016

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What the United States needs: Investment & Progressive Internationalism – CNN op-ed

Click here for the CNN site. (Note that the title was chosen by CNN’s editor.) Arthur Miller once said that “an era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.” The faith in trickle-down economics, in the … Continue reading →