Yanis Varoufakis's Blog, page 150

An Agenda for a Democratic, Recovering Europe: At the European House of Ambrosetti, 9th April 2016

This panel, organised by the House of Ambrosetti (Cernobbio), included: Martin Wolf (Chair), Jyrki Katainejn (Vice President of the European Commission), Yves Mersch (ECB Executive Board Member), Yanis Varoufakis (DiEM25), Jens Spahn (State Minister, Finance Ministry, Germany)Filed under: DiEM, European Crisis, Modest Proposal, Post-MinFin … Continue reading →

Corbyn to argue case for continued EU membership premised on workers’ rights and holding multinational companies to account

The Times reports that, in his first major intervention in the EU referendum campaign, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will talk of his “personal journey” from opposing EU membership to supporting it in a speech tomorrow. He is expected to frame … Continue reading →

Answering a Slovenian journalist’s questions on the Athens Spring

When Syriza won the elections in Greece in January 2015, the Slovenian right wing leader, obviously afraid that Slovenia’s New Left could follow its steps, said: Luckily this experiment will fail in Greece and will not be put into practice … Continue reading →

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 →