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The IMF confesses it immolated Greece on behalf of the Eurogroup

TIME FOR RESIGNATIONS AT THE IMF, THE ECB & THE COMMISSION TIME FOR AN APOLOGY TO THE PEOPLE OF GREECE TIME  FOR A POLICY U-TURN, BEGINNING WITH IMMEDIATE DEBT RELIEF, THE END OF AUSTERITY & THE CESSATION OF FIRE SALES TIME FOR THE … Continue reading →

EU ECONOMICS MEETS DEMOCRACY – interviewed by the Green European Journal

The architecture of the European Union institutions is flawed. Its leaders seem to deny the ineffectiveness of the response given to the financial and economic crisis as we see inequality and extremism on the rise. The European Union will be … Continue reading →

“Artists should be feared by the powerful” – complete pdf transcript of my Keynote at the Moscow Biennale, October 2015

The complete pdf of the Keynote with which I closed the 6th Moscow Biennale on 1st October 2015 is now available:. Click here (And for an audio file, click here)  Filed under: Art and Culture, DiEM, European Crisis, Ελληνικά

The Eurozone After Brexit – Die Zeit (in English and German)

For the German language version, as published in Die Zeit on 18 July 2016, click here. For the English version (as I wrote it originally)… The euro has failed, both as an economic and a political project. Moreover, its failure … Continue reading →

On the present and future of capitalism – my TED debate with Dambisa Moyo

Click here or… Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis calls himself a libertarian Marxist Keynesian — or “completely confused,” as he jokes. So it was hard to predict how he would react to Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, a more traditional … Continue reading →

On homelessness, street papers & Brexit – in The Big Issue

Yanis Varoufakis on the consequences of Brexit – and why homelessness in Greece is set to rapidly escalate Click here for The Big Issue sire or… In the white heat of Greek recession, the rise of anti-austerity party Syriza and … Continue reading →

Who was planning a coup? Tom Strohschneider in Neues Deutschland

This article by Tom Strohschneider was first published in the German newspaper Neues Deutschland. Read the German original here or the English version on the DiEM25 site.  In Athens, the opposition is currently trying to suck political honey out of a … Continue reading →

Stefano Fassina’s reply to our la Repubblica article on democratising Europe

Stefano Fassina wrote the following letter to la Repubblica’s editor, in response to the article that I published in the same newspaper with Lorenzo Marsili. Over the next few days, I shall be replying to Stefano here. Meanwhile for the original … Continue reading →

Advice to the Australian PM for his next term – from eight of us, courtesy of ABC Radio National

As Malcolm Turnbull prepares to return to Canberra to take the reins of government again, ABC Radio National has compiled eight pieces of advice on how he should approach his next term. The advice comes from: Ian Thorpe, Ursula Yovich, … Continue reading →

On the anniversary of the Greeks’ OXI, we say NO to a retreat to leftist nationalism – op-ed in La Repubblica

by Yanis Varoufakis and Lorenzo Marsili. Click here for the la Repubblica site. For the English language version… A year ago, the OXI vote in Greece was a thumping NO to an authoritarian, austerian, troika-controlled EU and a majestic YES … Continue reading →