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Discussing European Democracy in Barcelona – 15th October 2015, 19.00

, 12/10/2015

At Barcelona’s Born Cultural Centre. at the invitation of Mayor Ada Colau, ion conversation with Monica Terribas. Live streaming here.

What to do about Europe? – At the Volksbühne Theatre, Berlin, 6th October 2015

, 08/10/2015

At the legendary Volksbühne Berlin theatre in discussion with Franco „Bifo“ Berardi, Srećko Horvat and Guillaume Paoli

Artists should be feared by the powerful – Keynote closing the 6th Moscow Biennale, 1st October 2015 (audio)

, 04/10/2015

Click above for an audio of my Moscow talk – which RT-tv was broadcasting live until I began to criticise the Putin government…

Entretien exclusif – YANIS VAROUFAKIS sur ECORAMA

, 01/10/2015

Yanis Varoufakis était l’invité de Boursorama mercredi 30 septembre dans l’émission Ecoramaanimée par David Jacquot. L’ancien ministre des Finances grec est revenu sur les coulisses des négociations de cet été, tout en livrant ses opinions sur l’économie française.

Europe revisited – 2hr interview on Mediapart, 25 SEP 2015

, 30/09/2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRH39j3Kmh0#action=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-B6PoHgqZU

Il Fatto Quotidiano interview on M. Renzi's 'comment' & my reply

, 23/09/2015

Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano just published an interview with me regarding PN Renzi’s recent comments on my “removal” and my reply to him. Here are is the original Q&A in English.

POLITICO: Interview

, 23/09/2015

VAROUFAKIS TOLD YOU SO By DAVID PATRIKARAKOS  ATHENS — Yanis Varoufakis lives in understated elegance. His apartment is spacious and pleasing to the eye. Shelves bulge with books on politics and economics, unsurprising for a university professor who was, until July, Greece’s finance minister. TO READ THE INTERVIEW ON POLITICO’s SITE, CLICK HERE. Or…

A message for Mr Renzi

, 22/09/2015

Italian PM M. Renzi (click here for his speech) rejoiced at having “got rid of me” – citing my ‘removal’ from the ‘scene’ as a sign that ‘apostates’ (i.e. those who divide their parties) are jettisoned. His is a motivated illusion. Last July ‘they’ ‘got rid’ of something much more important than me. Here is my […]

Tsipras' triumph vs the impossible task of implementing a program designed to fail – in The Guardian

, 22/09/2015

Alexis Tsipras has snatched resounding victory from the jaws of July’s humiliating surrender to the troika of Greece’s lenders. Defying opposition parties, opinion pollsters and critics within his ranks (including this writer), he held on to government with a reduced, albeit workable, majority. The question is whether he can combine remaining in office with being […]

Interview in Corriere Della Sera – 16 SEP 2015

, 16/09/2015

L’ex ministro greco delle Finanze: «Presto ci sarà il lancio ufficiale e una sinistra pan europea capace di offrire una politica alternativa all’austerità» For the Italian version as published in CDS, click here. But beware: The Italian text there is a summary of my answers and, in my view, offers a distorted version of my […]

On German Moral Leadership – English version of op-ed in Sunday's FAZ

, 14/09/2015

For the published version in Sunday’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung click here. For my original English text read on…

There is an alternative to austerity – Brighton, Sunday 13/9, organised by PCS

, 11/09/2015

Former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is one of four powerful speakers against austerity at a PCS public meeting in Brighton on 13 September.

HOW EUROPE CRUSHED GREECE – Yanis Varoufakis' op-ed in the NYT

, 09/09/2015

ATHENS — Since the beginning of Greece’s financial crisis in 2010, two prime ministers have been swept from office after they were forced to adopt an unfeasible package of austerity measures in exchange for a bailout from the troika, as the eurozone authorities — the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary […]

European countries must support the United Nations’ proposals for sovereign debt restructuring! – Open letter to the UN by 19 economists

, 08/09/2015

On September 10, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on nine principles concerning the restructuring of sovereign debts. Abiding by such principles would have avoided the pitfalls of the Greek crisis, in which political representatives gave in to creditor demands despite their lack of economic sense and their disastrous social impact. This public interest […]

On the state of the European Union – Address at the 41st Forum of The European House-Ambrosetti

, 07/09/2015

In a session entitled ‘Old and New Conflicts and Challenges in the EU’, featuring also Peter Sutherland (FT), Mario Monti and Otmar Issing, I used the unwillingness of the Eurogroup, and the troika, even to consider a document prepared by my (then) ministry  (entitled “A Policy Framework for Greece’s Fiscal Consolidation, Recover and Growth“) as a […]

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