Yanis Varoufakis's Blog, page 157

A tu per tu con Varoufakis, senza peli sulla lingua (sull’Europa e non solo) -Marcello Foa, Il Giornale

Origina source: http://blog.ilgiornale.it/foa/2016/02... Visto da vicino, Yanis Varoufakis convince. Ho avuto il privilegio di intervistarlo pubblicamente a Lugano e poi di trascorrere alcune ore assieme a lui. E mi ha fatto un’eccellente impressione. Mi verrebbe dire che è un greco tutto … Continue reading →

DiEM25 is in the air – a preliminary Q&A

DiEM25 is, indeed, in the air. Our website (www.diem25.org) has made its first appearance on the airwaves, as have our Facebook and Twitter (@diem_25) pages. DiEM’s Manifesto will appear in the next few days and our webpages will ‘mature’ into a fully fledged … Continue reading →

Why a pan-European democracy movement? Interviewed by Nick Buxton

Yanis Varoufakis speaks to Nick Buxton, and Red Pepper, about why a pan-European movement for democracy is necessary What do you see as the main threats to democracy today? The threat to democracy has always been the disdain the establishment … Continue reading →

Are we heading for a crash? The Guardian

Click here for The Guardian site or if you want to read the longer version of my entry… Aditya Chakrabortty: A glimpse of what a real crash looks like This episode doesn’t smell to me like apocalypse now. But what … Continue reading →

How the ‘Troika Effect’ was dubbed the ‘Varoufakis Effect’ – Project Syndicate Op-Ed and beyond

As part of an impressive campaign to discredit the Athens Spring, and those of us who continue to honour and propagate its spirit, a cabal of journalists and ‘analysts’ have joined forces to depict me as the “destroyer of the … Continue reading →

Capitalism vs Democracy vs Capitalism: My TED Global Talk

Filed under: Politics and Economics, Post-MinFin missives

How Do the Economic Elites Get the Idea That They ‘Deserve’ More?

Evonomics (The next evolution in economics) is a new site trying valiantly to infuse economics debates with relevance, sense and sensibility. Here they retrieved a paper that I published, together with Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, in The Economic Journal. Below you will … Continue reading →

On Podemos, Greece and DiEM – Interview in El Mundo

For the El Mundo site (in Spanish), click here. To read my original English language responses… Why did you resign the very next day after the ‘no’ victory in the Greek referendum? Because the Prime Minister told me, on the … Continue reading →

On the need to democratise Europe – Real News Network

Filed under: Democratise the Euro!, European Crisis, Politics and Economics, Post-MinFin missives

In conversation with Gerardo Pisarello on democracy, Europe and municipalism

Gerardo Pisarello, Barcelona’s First Deputy Mayor, posing crucial questions on the state of capitalism, whether democracy has room to breathe nowadays, the need for a pan-European movement, the place of City Halls and municipalism in such a movement…  Filed under: Democratise … Continue reading →