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Speech at DiEM25’s pavilion, Fête de l’Humanité 2016

“It is time for Europe’s humanists to reclaim Europe” Last year, I came to La Fete with a message from Greece. The Athens Spring had just been crushed by the Troika because Europe’s Establishment was planning to bring the Troika … Continue reading →

Stefano Fassina on my ‘Europe’s Left After Brexit’

Stefano Fassina was kind enough to respond to my article entitled Europe’s Left After Brexit. His reply follows. On Sept 6, Yanis Varoufakis offered an interesting review here of the progressive positions addressing EU problems. The first one, he underlines … Continue reading →

Democratising Europe – a transnational project? A debate with openDemocracy

YANIS VAROUFAKIS, ROSEMARY BECHLER, ALEX SAKALIS, and ANTHONY BARNETT 13 September 2016 (Click here for the openDemocracy site) What role does national self-determination and ‘self-government’ play in European and human emancipation today? Yanis Varoufakis replies for DiEM25. Yanis Varoufakis has recently … Continue reading →

Interview with the Berlin Policy Journal in 140 characters

You left office about a year ago – any regrets?  None whatsoever. Once it was no longer possible to do good for Greece as minister, there was no reason to stay in office. Your proudest moment as #Greece’s Minister of … Continue reading →

Europe’s Left after Brexit

In reply to Tariq Ali, Stathis Kouvelakis, Vicente Navarro and Stefano Fassina on DiEM25’s plan for resisting within the European Union Preface: This article (published in edited form in Jacobin, Neues Deutschland, Il Manifesto,  Mediapart and elsewhere) addresses left-wing critics … Continue reading →

Varoufakis-Kipping-Lederer in Berlin, 17.09.2016

SATURDAY, 17.09.16, DOORS 16:00, START 17:00 Address: Astra Kulturhaus Berlin, Revaler Str. 99, 10245 Berlin GOOGLE MAPS Contact: Club: +49 30 200 567 67 Office: + 49 30 69566840 Filed under: DiEM

Poetry in prose? Letter in the FT

AUGUST 20, 2016 – From Vijay Kumar. Sir, One often hears that people on the left of the political spectrum tend to be more intelligent, more articulate, better read and generally more fun to be with. Sir, One often hears … Continue reading →

KURIER: Österreichs Sozialdemokra­tie hat ihr Ende erreicht

Der griechische Ex-Finanzminister sagt, der Geist Bruno Kreiskys sei verloren gegangen. 31.08.2016, 14:01 Der frühere griechische Finanzminister Gianis Varoufakis hat in Alpbach bei einem Pressegespräch auch zur österreichischen Innenpolitik Stellung genommen. Er kritisierte dabei die von den Sozialdemokraten übernommenen Inhalte … Continue reading →

Markets vs States in today’s Europe: An Alpbach Keynote Debate

In October 2015, I had the opportunity to debate, in Munich, Professor Hans Werner Sinn on the European Monetary Union and, more broadly, Europe’s economy . On 30 August 2016, at the Alpbach European Forum, I debated Professor Sinn’s successor … Continue reading →

DiEM25: Bring it on! – J.K. Galbraith in the Boston Globe

From the destruction of Greece to democracy in Europe By James K. Galbraith (Click here for the Globe’s site) IN PROTESTING the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, John Maynard Keynes wrote: “The policy . . . of depriving … Continue reading →