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Der Spiegel op-ed: Endgame for the IMF-EU Feud over Greece’s Debt

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 … Continue reading →

THE IRISH TIMES reviews ‘And The Weak…’

For the site of The Irish Times click here. Otherwise… Eight months after his abrupt resignation as Greece’s finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis is back in the thick of things, leading a new pan-European political movement and promoting a new book … Continue reading →

Brexit would be the worst of all worlds – at THE GUARDIAN LIVE event

For THE GUARDIAN site, click here. Otherwise… Yanis Varoufakis has appealed for the UK to remain in the European Union because leaving would hasten the disintegration of the 28-nation bloc. The former Greek finance minister made the call at a … Continue reading →

Michael Gove’s Review (The Times) of ‘And the Weak…’

Click here for a pdf of Michael Gove’s review of And The Weak Suffer What They Must? Filed under: And the Weak Suffer What They Must? - the book, DiEM, European Crisis, Politics and Economics, Post-MinFin missives

Can two leftwing gurus save Europe? Chronicles by Thomas Piketty; And the Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis

Review by Paul Mason At the battle of Gettysburg, the defence of the Union army’s flank was entrusted to a man whose biggest responsibility until then had been as professor of rhetoric at an east coast university. In the 1993 … Continue reading →

Guardian Long Read – Why we must save the EU

5th April 2016. For The Guardian site, click here. Otherwise… The first German word I ever learned was Siemens. It was emblazoned on our sturdy 1950s fridge, our washing machine, the vacuum cleaner – on almost every appliance in my … Continue reading →

Telegraph profile – by Mick Brown

For The Telegraph site, click here. Otherwise… ‘Europe is too important to be left to its clueless rulers’ So, I say to Yanis Varoufakis, you were an obscure university lecturer, with a sideline in writing comment pieces about economics, who … Continue reading →

Discussing Panama papers & UK referendum – Channel 4 News, 4 April 2016

Filed under: DiEM, Politics and Economics, Post-MinFin missives

Discussing Panama papers & UK referendum – Channel 4 News4 April 2016

Filed under: DiEM, Politics and Economics, Post-MinFin missives

On BBC Radio 4’s, Start of the Week, with Andrew Marr and friends

Filed under: DiEM, Europe Unhinged - the book, Post-MinFin missives