DiEM25
An Agenda for a Democratic, Recovering Europe: At the European House of Ambrosetti, 9th April 2016
, 13/04/2016
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)
Corbyn to argue case for continued EU membership premised on workers’ rights and holding multinational companies to account
, 13/04/2016
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 his support for EU on its role in protecting workers’ rights and holding multinational companies […]
Answering a Slovenian journalist's questions on the Athens Spring
, 11/04/2016
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 in Slovenia. Any comment?
Der Spiegel op-ed: Endgame for the IMF-EU Feud over Greece’s Debt
, 11/04/2016
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 we are approaching something of a hazardous endgame.
THE IRISH TIMES reviews ‘And The Weak…’
, 10/04/2016
For the site of The Irish Times click here. Otherwise…
Brexit would be the worst of all worlds – at THE GUARDIAN LIVE event
, 10/04/2016
To listen to the debate, click For THE GUARDIAN site, click here. Otherwise…
Michael Gove’s Review (The Times) of ‘And the Weak…’
, 10/04/2016
Click here for a pdf of Michael Gove’s review of And The Weak Suffer What They Must?
Guardian Long Read – Why we must save the EU
, 10/04/2016
5th April 2016. For The Guardian site, click here. Otherwise…
Telegraph profile – by Mick Brown
, 10/04/2016
For The Telegraph site, click here. Otherwise… ‘Europe is too important to be left to its clueless rulers’
Discussing Panama papers & UK referendum – Channel 4 News, 4 April 2016
, 05/04/2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZjqicN8ZugOn BBC Radio 4’s, Start of the Week, with Andrew Marr and friends
, 05/04/2016
/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/starttheweek-20160404-greeceandtheeurozonewithyanisvaroufakis.mp3‘Europe is too important to be left to its clueless rulers’ – Telegraph profile
, 03/04/2016
By Mick Brown, 31 MARCH 2016 • 11:08AM [For the TELEGRAPH site, complete with photos and videos, click here] So, I say to Yanis Varoufakis, you were an obscure university lecturer, with a sideline in writing comment pieces about economics, who had also devised and plotted virtual currencies for computer games, but your only experience of political […]
Antonio Fazio, ex Govenor of Italy’s Central Bank, endorses Varoufakis’ analysis
, 02/04/2016
[The report below is an abridged English translation of an article in Katholisches under the title Varoufakis, DiEM25 und Papst Franziskus For the English translation of the whole article, click here.] Antonio Fazio, the ex Govenor of the Italian Central Bank, criticizes EU Economic Policy… Fazio who is an economist and a practising Catholic known for his outstanding knowledge of […]
What’s DiEM25, really? Reply to Open Letter by Souvlis&Mazzolini
, 02/04/2016
Shortly after DiEM25’s Rome launch, I received a splendid Open Letter from George Souvlis and Samuele Mazzolini. It reminded me of another such letter I had received from John Malamatinas prior to DiEM25’s Berlin launch. George and Samuele raise crucial questions about DiEM25 and our project to democratise Europe. Here comes a feeble attempt to […]
On Martin Sandbu’s FT review of "And the weak suffer what they must?"
, 02/04/2016
Martin Sandbu reviewed my new book (And The Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Great Threat to Global Stability, Bodley Head & Nation Books) for the FT. (Click here for the, unfortunately, paywalled site.) I wish to thank Martin, whose own book on the same subject (Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro […]
On the BBC's HARDtalk, talking with Stephen Sackur
, 02/04/2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZOAroRgIbY&feature=youtu.beInterview with The Economist – full transcript
, 01/04/2016
For The Economist’s site, where this interview with Jeremy Cliffe appeared. click here. YANIS VAROUFAKIS is a Greek economist who served as finance minister in his country’s Syriza government from January to September last year. After this approved the third bailout package, which he described as a surrender, he declined to stand in fresh elections and set about founding DiEM25, […]
The Eurogroup Made Simple
, 30/03/2016
The Eurozone is the largest and most important macro-economy in the world.
QUARTZ Magazine – DiEM25’s plan to save the European Union from itself
, 24/03/2016
[Click here for the Quartz site] After years of economic turmoil, a near-Grexit, a looming Brexit, and a refugee crisis that challenges the very principle of open borders, it’s safe to say that the European Union is struggling. According to Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s unforgettable former minister of finance, the only way to stop the EU’s […]
Transparency in Europe now! Sign/share the petition today!
, 24/03/2016
To: Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, President of the Eurogroup, the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), and Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), and Cecilia Malmström, EU Trade Commissioner PETITION TEXT […]
DiEM25 in Italy – watch video and sign the Transparency Petition
, 23/03/2016
ROME, 23rd March 2016 DiEM25 in Italy was launched, along with DiEM25’s TRANSPARENCY IN EUROPE, NOW! campaign. Watch the video below, join DiEM25 and sign the TRANSPARENCY IN EUROPE, NOW! petition!
La Repubblica: Diem25, un movimento per superare il fallimento dell’Europa
, 20/03/2016
For a copy of the (longer) interview in English, click: Original answers by Yanis Varoufakis, in English, to La Repubblica, 19 March 2016. Click here the LA REPUBBLICA site (Italian), or…