DiEM25
DiEM25 tritt als Bewegung bei Wahlen an – der Freitag
, 14/11/2017
Europa zurückholen Mit Europa steht es nicht zum Besten. Die Bewegung DiEM25 will via Demokratisierung zu einem Europa der Menschen anregen. Statt zuzusehen, wie es “über die Klippen geht” Als die GriechInnen „Oxi“, nein, zu den europäischen „Reformen“ gesagt hatten und darob von den „Institutionen“ noch schlimmer gedemütigt worden waren, schrieb ich: Europa ist gestorben (dazu […]
UK needs ‘Norway-style’ deal post-Brexit, says Varoufakis – The Irish Times
, 12/11/2017
The UK should stay within the single market for five years after Brexit and Northern Ireland beyond that under “nominal” control from the UK, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has said. Speaking on a visit to Ireland, Mr Varoufakis, who was Greece’s finance minister in 2015, said Britain should apply for a five-year transitional […]
How Trump rose to power (in 2’33”) – Business Insider video
, 09/11/2017
Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and author of “Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment,” explains that the rise of Donald Trump and the alt-right is a symptom of the failure of the establishment and liberal capitalism. Following is a transcript of the video. Yanis Varoufakis: My name is Yanis […]
“BREXIT: What must be avoided and what must be done, now!” – Speech at the Royal Society, London, 7 NOV 2017
, 08/11/2017
No venue is better suited for a detoxifying discussion on Brexit than The Royal Society, whose motto (Nullius In Verba – On No One’s Word) ought to be the foundation of all rational debate. I was, thus, moved and deeply honoured by the EEF’s (*) invitation to deliver their annual lecture on Brexit in The Royal Society. […]
On Catalonia, the Muslim Ban and a Sustainable World Order
, 03/11/2017
We continue our conversation with economist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. His new book is entitled Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment.
On Nazi Resurgence in Europe & Why ISIS Loves Donald Trump – On Democracy Now tv
, 03/11/2017
We speak with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis about the rise of the far-right Golden Dawn party in his country and how their policies “have infiltrated the mainstream” in European politics, including anti-immigrant measures similar to those proposed by Trump. Varoufakis says Trump’s vow to crack down on immigration after the attack in New […]
On Global Capitalism & How Trump’s Tax Plan is Class War Against the Poor – On Democracy Now tv
, 03/11/2017
President Trump and House Republicans have unveiled their long-promised proposal to reform America’s tax code, with Trump calling it a “big, beautiful Christmas present” for the American people. Critics say the gift is a tax cut for the richest Americans. We discuss the proposal with economist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who argues, […]
Puerto Ricans Deserve an Escape from “Permanent Debt Prison” – on Democracy Now tv
, 03/11/2017
As the White House finally agrees to release FEMAdisaster aid with more flexibility to try to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s devastated power grid and other infrastructure, we speak with economist Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, about the history of the island’s debt crisis and what to do as it recovers from Hurricane Maria.
Review of ‘And the Weak Suffer What They Must?’, by Andy Hartropp, The Center for Enterprise, Markets & Ethics
, 02/11/2017
In this book, Yanis Varoufakis (Professor of Economics at the University of Athens) gives a highly informative and very well-informed account of the austerity measures enforced by the institutions of the European Union (EU) since the financial crisis which began in 2007-2008. He also sets these events and policies in the wider context and history […]
Lesbos’s Ghosts, Europe’s Disgrace – Project Syndicate op-ed, 31st October 2017
, 31/10/2017
Oct 31, 2017 YANIS VAROUFAKIS , GEORGE TYRIKOS-ERGAS In September alone, another 2,238 refugees arrived in Lesbos, despite Turkey’s attempts to cut the flow. A camp designed for 2,000 people now “houses” three times that number, behind rows of barbed wire, in a magma of mud, refuse, and human excrement. ATHENS – In 2015, hundreds of thousands of […]
Highlights from DiEM25’s STATE OF THE (European) UNION event in Brussels (9/9/2017)
, 28/10/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlQ5IflbDU&feature=push-u&attr_tag=sdmArCfKnRYLoZzN-6
BRUT: Merkel, Macron, Mélenchon et les banques : les vérités de Yánis Varoufákis (English with French subtitles)
, 28/10/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnCQ-lxPawo
Liberation: «En Europe, les chiffres prospèrent, les gens désespèrent»
, 28/10/2017
L’ancien ministre des Finances de Tsípras, qui a lutté bec et ongles contre l’austérité et vient de publier un livre au vitriol, dénonce les «mensonges» de la crise grecque. Et regarde d’un œil plus que sceptique la politique de Macron. Il l’avait promis, il a osé le faire : peu après sa démission du poste de ministre […]
Eine Nachricht für Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble
, 25/10/2017
Lieber Wolfgang, Ich habe deine jüngsten Antworten auf Fragen von Journalisten sehr genau unter die Lupe genommen. Diese bezogen sich auf mein neuestes Buch “Die ganze Geschichte” und unsere Unterhaltungen im ersten Halbjahr 2015. Ich habe einen Vorschlag für dich. Anstatt vager Aussagen und herabsetzender Bemerkungen möchte ich dich einladen und herausfordern, konkrete Seiten und […]
Interview for VOX with Sean Illing, occasioned by ‘Adults in the Room’
, 24/10/2017
“The alternative is a gigantic dystopia, because the way we are moving today is creating nothing but hopelessness and despair and a shrinking middle class.” Those aren’t the words of Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. They’re from someone who watched his nation get hammered first by a financial crisis not solely of its own making […]
‘I would like to live in a world where we’re all privileged’ – Interviewed by The Guardian, on the occasion of the publication of ‘Talking to My Daughter About the Economy’
, 16/10/2017
The economist Yanis Varoufakis was the finance minister in Greece for six tumultuous months in 2015, before resigning from the Syriza government. Last year he launched the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). He is also the author of several books. His latest is Talking to My Daughter About the Economy. Your new book, explaining the history […]
Le Monde – Yanis Varoufakis: « Macron a déjà échoué face à l’Allemagne »
, 13/10/2017
L’ex-ministre grec des finances de gauche radicale soutient le projet européen du président, mais désapprouve sa stratégie. LE MONDE ECONOMIE | 13.10.2017 à 10h56 • Mis à jour le 13.10.2017 à 14h47 | Propos recueillis par Marie Charrel Si elle ne change pas de logiciel, la zone euro court à sa perte, estime Yanis Varoufakis. Economiste anticonformiste, ministre des finances du gouvernement […]
DiEM25’s tour of Italy forges alliances & a plan for 2019
, 09/10/2017
Last week, DiEM25’s Yanis Varoufakis and Lorenzo Marsili toured Italy, meeting activists, movements, municipal coalitions and political figures across the Eurozone’s third largest economy to put forward our proposals for tackling Europe’s common problems, and to introduce our ongoing debate on DiEM25’s role in the 2019 European elections. Over five days our team visited six cities, […]
Why Europe Needs a New Deal, Not Breakup – op-ed in The Nation, with James K. Galbraith
, 07/10/2017
The American New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt’s first two terms combined the goals of financial stabilization, reconstruction, conservation, and employment—jobs for the jobless; public works; power systems and new industries, especially in the South; soil conservation and reforestation to battle the Dust Bowl; and a potent mix of regulations and insurance to assert public power […]
DiEM25’s European New Deal explained – video
, 07/10/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geGTs6PFW0A
People, Power & Varoufakis – VPRO documentary, now with English subtitles
, 07/10/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RurKArj81GM
Spain’s Crisis is Europe’s Opportunity – Project Syndicate op-ed, 6 OCT 2017
, 06/10/2017
The Catalonia crisis is a strong hint from history that Europe needs to develop a new type of sovereignty, one that strengthens cities and regions, dissolves national particularism, and upholds democratic norms. Imagining a pan-European democracy is the prerequisite for imagining a Europe worth saving. ATHENS – To revive the ailing European project, the ugly […]
Article on DiEM25 in the Boston Globe – by Thanassis Cambanis, 29th September 2017
, 29/09/2017
WHEN THE PUBLIC is disillusioned with an entire political culture, it’s not a problem that technocrats alone can fix. But an unlikely band of Greek reformers may have an answer for an unsettled Europe — and the entire Western world. Over the last seven decades, Western Europe, with support from the United States, built a liberal […]