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Jane Goodall’s review of Adults in the Room – Insider Story
, 30/05/2017
Dragged behind a chariot, watched by the crowd If you studied economics at Sydney University in the 1990s, you might have had the good fortune to be taught in first year by a charismatic young lecturer who earned the nickname of the Greek God. Yanis Varoufakis, who in his youth bore some resemblance to John […]
ADULTS IN THE ROOM
, 30/05/2017
What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe’s hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power. ‘One of the greatest political memoirs of all time’ (Guardian) The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller Varoufakis sparked one of the most […]
El Confidential: ¿Qué fue de Varufakis?
, 30/05/2017
Creó un movimiento paneuropeo desde el que diseñar su regreso: Diem25, con sucursales ya en capitales europeas. También en Madrid. Sus miembros decidirán si se presenta o no a las elecciones 30.05.2017 – 05:00 H. Yanis Varufakis desembarca de nuevo en Grecia después de una travesía por el desierto que ha durado casi dos años. […]
How to build a democratic Europe in a post-Brexit landscape – interviewed for Jacobin by Doug Henwood
, 22/05/2017
Yanis Varoufakis negotiated with the EU elite over the Greek bailout, witnessed firsthand the callous mathematics used to keep the union together. Today — after OXI, after Brexit, and after Trump — he and his comrades in DiEM25 are calling for a New Deal for Europe: a plan that can stabilize the European Union and […]
Only Theresa May can end this inhumane tug of war over EU citizens – THE HOUSE Magazine op-ed
, 21/05/2017
The HOUSE Magazine is the inhouse publication of the UK’s Houses of Parliament. This piece was commissioned to discuss what the British government should do in relation to EU residents post-Brexit. For the sake of Britain’s economy, and soul, Theresa May must immediately and unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU citizens currently residing in the […]
The day DiEM25 came to Athens – 19th May 2017
, 19/05/2017
On 19th May 2017 , DiEM25 held its first-ever event in Athens, ground-zero of the Euro Crisis and of course our co-founder Yanis Varoufakis’ home turf. Here’s a timeline of the event: The week started off with a bang: Greece’s opposition party shamelessly attacked us, so we responded in kind. The DiEM25 Greece team put […]
John Kampfner’s review of Adults in the Room – The Observer
, 15/05/2017
Maybe Barack Obama isn’t such a saint after all. Before welcoming Greece’s embattled finance minister to the Oval Office, the then president told his Greek-American audience: “I might as well walk up to him and ask to borrow some money.” The presidential joke fell flat. Greece had become the object of mirth and bullying by […]
Congratulations, President Macron. Now We Oppose You! – Project Syndicate op-ed
, 15/05/2017
ATHENS – Prior to the second round of the French Presidential election, DiEM25 (the pan-European movement of democrats, mostly of the left, that I helped to found) promised Emmanuel Macron that we would “mobilize fully to help” him defeat Marine Le Pen. This we did – incurring the wrath of many on the left – […]
Paul Tyson’s review of Adults in the Room – openDemocracy
, 11/05/2017
PAUL TYSON 11 May 2017 (Click here for the openDemocracy.net site) A lot, maybe the future of Europe, depends on how you read the opening conversation with Larry Summers in ‘one of the greatest political memoirs of all time.’ Theological Review. Greeks in Syntagma Square to celebrate the win of the ‘Oxi’ (Greek for no) […]
Discussing Adults in the Room with Phillip Adams, Late Night Live, ABC Radio National
, 11/05/2017
Insider account of Europe’s Establishment Economist and academic Yanis Varoufakis was always a political outsider, who gained notoriety when he challenged Europe’s political leaders, the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the IMF during Greece’s economic crisis. He exposed these leaders and institutions as being self-serving, while not considering the disastrous effects of austerity […]
Talking about Adults in the Room on Sweden’s EFN
, 05/05/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGt82RFfg3U
A state of political disrepair: On Brexit, the EU, and trashing the establishment
, 05/05/2017
Interviewed by openDemocracy
Why the French left should have backed Macron in the 2nd Presidential Round – The Guardian
, 04/05/2017
In 2002, Jacques Chirac, the French right’s leader, faced Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the racist Front National, in the second round of France’s presidential election. The French left rallied behind the Gaullist, conservative Chirac to oppose the xenophobic heir of Vichy collaborationism. Fifteen years later, however, large sections of the French left are […]
Paul Mason’s review of Adults in the Room in The Guardian
, 03/05/2017
Yanis Varoufakis once bought me a gin and tonic. His wife once gave me a cup of tea. While dodging my questions, as finance ministers are obliged to, he never once told me an outright lie. And I’ve hosted him at two all-ticketed events. I list these transactions because of what I am about to […]
The Brexit traps that will defeat Theresa May – The Guardian
, 03/05/2017
“It’s yours against mine.” That’s how Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s finance minister, put it to me during our first encounter in early 2015 – referring to our respective democratic mandates. A little more than two years later, Theresa May is trying to arm herself with a clear democratic mandate ostensibly to bolster her negotiating position with […]
The six Brexit traps that will defeat Theresa May – Guardian op-ed 3 May 2017
, 03/05/2017
“It’s yours against mine.” That’s how Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s finance minister, put it to me during our first encounter in early 2015 – referring to our respective democratic mandates. A little more than two years later, Theresa May is trying to arm herself with a clear democratic mandate ostensibly to bolster her negotiating position with European powerbrokers – […]
Why we support Macron in the second round – op-ed in Le Monde (English original) and DiEM25 France in Mediapart
, 02/05/2017
In today’s Le Monde I call upon French progressives to vote for Macron in the second round of France’s Presidential election. The article explains my recommendation to French voters and finishes off with the following promise to Emmanuel: “I shall mobilise fully to help you beat Le Pen with the same strength that I shall […]
On Theresa May’s EU negotiating tactics – BBC Radio 4 World at One, 2nd May 2017
, 02/05/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glQaXrWgV-U&feature=youtu.be
Daily Telegraph’s serialisation of Adults in the Room
, 29/04/2017
Prior to the publication of my ADULTS IN THE ROOM, the Daily Telegraph serialised ten of the events the book turns on: A strange visit by Merkel’s go-between The blocked Chinese deal The key Berlin meeting Osborne meeting Tapped phone calls Coup d’état: How the government overthrew the… voters Dressing with dash: The story of that leather jacket The […]
DiEM25’s position paper on why we supported Macron in the second round – Mediapart
, 28/04/2017
Pour faire opposition à Le Pen, DiEM25 appelle à voter Macron 28 AVR. 2017 PAR LES INVITÉS DE MEDIAPART ÉDITION : LES INVITÉS DE MEDIAPART Le Mouvement pour la démocratie en Europe DiEM25, mouvement politique pan-européen lancé en 2015 par l’ancien ministre des Finances grec Yanis Varoufakis, appelle à faire barrage à l’extrême droite « […]
Ecuador has much to teach us in the Eurozone
, 27/04/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ooX3I_mwjE
A message from DiEM25 Barcelona – The European Revolution Starts with You
, 13/04/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EiTE47CoXo
DiEM25 practises democracy internally, before preaching it… The case of the French Presidential elections
, 05/04/2017
DiEM25 practises democracy at home before preaching it! Like other campaigns and elections (e.g. the referenda in the UK and Italy), DiEM25’s position is decided by means of a comprehensive internal debate and a vote involving all DiEM25ers – even those who live in Latin America or the United States (yes, we have an ideological […]
DiEM25’s Rome 25th March 2017 Launch of the European New Deal – from Teatro Italia
, 03/04/2017
On 25th March 2017, as Europe’s leaders gathered in Rome to celebrate the… disintegration of the EU, DiEM25 was there, at Teatro Italia, launching our major Policy Paper The European New Deal – a comprehensive economic and social policy agenda, applicable to the whole of Europe (not just the EU), by which to save Europe […]