The Economics of Europe’s Descent into Warmongering – and our duty now!

by Yanis Varoufakis, 13/06/2025

On Tuesday, June 10 2025, I addressed a meeting at the European Parliament, an event organised by The Left and M5S Europa, on the theme of “The Economic Conditions for Peace”, alongside Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte. My talk can be watched and read here. [INTRODUCTION] A year ago, I would have started this speech with a lament […]

A Chinese New Bretton Woods? – Quancha op-ed

by Yanis Varoufakis, 08/06/2025

Donald Trump has made it impossible for any sensible person to persevere in the delusion that global business can continue as usual. We should all welcome this, even if we are livid with Trump’s shocking behaviour, decisions and narratives. The global economy will either be rebalanced or it will crash in ways that may make […]

Trump Wants Big Tech to Own the Dollar – Project Syndicate op-ed

by Yanis Varoufakis, 05/06/2025

The IMF-World Bank Spring meetings are usually placid affairs that participating central bankers wish to forget soon after they are over. Not this Spring. This April the feeling several central bankers brought back home with them was not the usual relief but something far more visceral: dread, terror even. The reason? The spectre of the […]

Exposing Keir Starmer’s military spending scam – interview with Declassified UK

by Yanis Varoufakis, 05/06/2025

Just days into his premiership, Keir Starmer announced the commissioning of a “root and branch” Strategic Defence Review (SDR), writes Kate Hudson. Under the leadership of Lord Robertson, former defence secretary and NATO secretary general, the review panel claims to have broken with tradition, by including a much wider range of participants than usual – […]

On Bloomberg Live discussing Technofeudalism with Mishal Husain

by Yanis Varoufakis, 05/06/2025

In the EU nothing succeeds like gross failure: The astonishing case of Ursula von der Leyen – Der Freitag 29 MAY 2025

by Yanis Varoufakis, 05/06/2025

Failure, corruption and warmongering: Ursula von der Leyen is awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen for her contribution to the EU – because in Europe utter failure is not only tolerated, but celebrated! It is one of life’s guilty pleasures when one’s cynical prejudices are confirmed. One such moment, when I allowed myself a […]

On Channel 4: Is Donald Trump’s tariff war about to backfire?

by Yanis Varoufakis, 04/02/2025

Will Trump’s tariff wars backfire? And how should other world leaders, including Keir Starmer, react? In this episode of the Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy is joined by Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Erica York of the Tax Foundation think tank.

Rachel Reeves’ unbearable acquiescence to the City bankers – UNHERD

by Yanis Varoufakis, 16/01/2025

The curse of finance ministers whose country’s business model is broken is that they are powerless to transform the economy, yet too powerful not to take the blame. But when the economy is merely stagnating, not yet in free-fall, preventing the descent into a financial crisis should require no more than average competence. Sadly, the […]