Interviews
Paul Laverty’s & Ken Loach’s haunting & elegiac film: Why Labour must win this Thursday
, 10/12/2019
There is a fork in the road. A mighty choice is coming. We can have a plan. An imperfect plan maybe. But one for the planet, not the corporations. For the many, not the few. A plan for the ‘we’, not the ‘I’.
DiEM25 2.0 – Prague Address
, 10/12/2019
On the next phase of Europe’s transnational progressive movement PRAGUE ADDRESS, 22nd November 2019 We come from all over Europe. From across borders, party lines and with different views of the good society. We are united by these differences. Europe will be democratised. Or it will disintegrate. This is not a scare tactic. It is […]
Is capitalism past its expiry date? Munk Debate (K, Vanden Heuvel & Y. Varoufakis vs A. Brooks & D. Brooks)
, 08/12/2019
The capitalist system is broken. It’s time to try something different. For my 3 minute conclusion of this debate, jump to 1 hour 59 minutes There is a growing belief in western societies that the current capitalist system no longer works for average people. Economic inequality is rampant. Life expectancy is falling. The environment is […]
Labour’s 2019 Manifesto: My assessment on BBC Radio 5, 21 NOV 2019
, 22/11/2019
As an economist, Labour’s 2019 Manifesto strikes me as a sensible, moderate and well-targeted program in view of Britain’s needs and capacities. Independently of what one thinks of Corbyn and McDonnell (Nb. my friendship and comradeship with both is well known), most people agree that: Exceptional investment in the green transition and technologies, possibly of a […]
Why is economics not a force for good and what must we do to make it so? Cambridge 8th NOV 2019
, 22/11/2019
On 8th November, at the invitation of Professor Antara Haldar of Cambridge University, I presented this talk in the context of a fascinating group of academics who gathered in the Cambridge Union’s upstairs seminar room to revive Keynes’ original idea of the Cambridge Circus – a radical circle of economists seeking the kind of economics that […]
Sophisticated Heretic – Interview with the Cambridge Union magazine TCS
, 22/11/2019
Yanis Varoufakis has been adamant that he is not a politician. He might be an economist, though his conversation with Margaret Levi – a Stanford political scientist – at the Cambridge Union last Thursday evening on 7th November 2019 smashed the academic boundary walls of economics in style. His critical principles come from his characteristic […]
“Should liberal capitalism be saved?”A debate between Martin Wolf & Yanis Varoufakis, Today, London, Wincott Foundation
, 14/11/2019
On November 14, 2019, The Wincott Foundation will host an evening debate at the Financial Times to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. This special event takes the place of the usual annual Harold Wincott Memorial Lecture. The Foundation was set up in honour of Harold Wincott, who was widely regarded as the finest economic journalist of […]
Quantitative Easing: Its rationale, impact and the future of the world economy – Audio of speech delivered at ICA 2019
, 12/11/2019
Hosted by Bahrain Financial Market Association, the two-day conference organized in cooperation with the Central Bank of Bahrain themed “Reshaping Finance in a Changing Economy”. The ICA hosted the Greek former Minister of Finance Professor Yanis Varoufakis at a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Jarmo T. Kotilaine the Chief Planning and Monitoring Officer of Tamkeen. Other […]
“Brexit, for all its ills, has reinvigorated British democracy” – Cambridge Union address, 8 NOV 2019
, 11/11/2019
Last Friday (8th November 2019), I delivered a Cambridge Union address on (what else?) Brexit. My opening message was: “Instead of moaning about the state of British institutions, rejoice! For all its many ills, Brexit has reinvigorated British democracy.” Unlike most continental European parliaments, the House of Commons remains at the heart of decision making and, […]
Capitalism, Democracy and Europe – Interviewed for the Great Transition Initiative
, 04/11/2019
As harsh austerity and xenophobic nationalism fester in Europe, Yanis Varoufakis discusses his antidote with Tellus Senior Fellow Allen White. What inspired your career trajectory from academic economist to prominent supranational activist? I went into politics because of the financial crisis of 2008. Had financial capitalism not imploded, I would have happily continued my quite […]
“El ‘establishment’ y la ultraderecha se necesitan” – El Mundo
, 21/10/2019
Costa Gavras adapta al cine su libro autobiográfico en la película ‘Comportarse como adultos’ que se estrena el viernes. Yanis Varoufakis es el autor del libro en el que se basa la última película de Costa-Gavras. SANTI COGOLLUDO Yanis Varoufakis (Falero, 1961) es de los pocos ex ministros de finanzas (con o sin moto) que puede […]
Caroline Lucas & Yanis Varoufakis search for what went wrong with democracy – THE BIG ISSUE
, 21/10/2019
The Green Party MP and the MeRA25 leader journey from democracy’s inception through the tumultuous Brexit period and through to the year 2035 There’s chaos on the streets of Westminster as the activists of Extinction Rebellion bring traffic to a standstill to highlight the urgency of action on the climate crisis. If the old democracy […]
Progressive Internationalism & why a Corbyn government is the only cure for a terrible Brexit – openDemocracy video interview
, 21/10/2019
At this year’s The World Transformed, we caught up with some of the key figures in the movement for a new economy and politics. In the grand finale of our exclusive series, Yanis Varoufakis speaks to ourEconomy about Brexit, the coming UK general election, a constitutional assembly for Britain, and his agenda of a new Bretton Woods, public […]
I just pulled out of a conference in Turkey in protest at the invasion of Northern Syria’s Kurdish region
, 11/10/2019
It is with profound regret, and after much reflection, that I am pulling out as a speaker at an interesting and worthy international conference organised by TRT World in Istanbul on 21st October. I do so in protest of the Turkish armed forces’ invasion of Northern Syria. The ongoing invasion is not only an assault […]
Naomi Klein supports MeRA25-DiEM25’s campaign against oil & gas extraction in Greece
, 02/10/2019
This morning, in Greece’s Parliament, MeRA25’s parliamentarians are staging an all-out struggle against the ratification of disastrous contracts between the previous (SYRIZA) government and multinational oil companies. The contracts to be ratified give the companies (including Exxon-Mobil and Total) full licence to drill, extract and exploit gas & oil reserves across Greece’s beautiful seas (Ionian, […]
Θέσεις του ΜέΡΑ25 για την Θεσσαλονίκη, την Ελλάδα, την Ευρώπη – ΔΕΘ 2019
, 19/09/2019
«Μας κυβερνά ένας υποδειγματικός κρατούμενος ενώ η νέα ύφεση είναι ήδη εδώ». Από τη συνέντευξη τύπου του Γραμματέα του ΜέΡΑ25 στη ΔΕΘ, Παρασκευή 13η Σεπτεμβρίου 2019. Εισαγωγή Είναι χαρά για εμάς στο ΜέΡΑ25 ότι βρισκόμαστε εδώ, στην Θεσσαλονίκη, για την πρώτη σημαντική μετεκλογική πολιτική αντιπαράθεση εκτός Βουλής ενώπιον του τύπου και των πολιτών. Είναι χαρά που για […]
Must we replace the dollar with a shared international currency unit? On the BBC World Service’s REAL STORY
, 06/09/2019
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, recently said that we need a new international currency unit to replace the US dollar. In this BBC World Service program, I was asked what I thought of the idea. For more of a background to my answer click here. (For the whole BBC program, click here.)
The IMF functions like the US-European bankers’ bailiffs – Varoufakis and Rogoff on BBC World Service’s World Business Report
, 28/08/2019
The International Monetary Fund’s latest $56 billion loan to Argentina is at risk of failing again. The Argentinian peso has slumped and opposition leader Alberto Fernandez wants to ditch the austerity conditions attached to IMF bailouts that have so far failed to reduce inflation, stabilise the currency or halt recession. The Washington-based multilateral organisation monitors […]
IQ Squared presents Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno on Money, Power and a Call for Radical Change – London, 4th November
, 09/08/2019
The liberal order is under threat. Increasing inequality, the rise of far-right nationalism and the climate emergency pose unprecedented challenges. It’s time for some radical thinking. On November 4th Intelligence Squared is bringing to its stage two of the world’s great radicals – Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister known for his trademark leather jacket, motorbike and […]
Το Πανεπιστημιακό Άσυλο χρειάζεται Περιφρούρηση, όπως και οι πορείες – Απάντηση στο ΚΚΕ σε 1′
, 08/08/2019
Συνάδελφοι του ΚΚΕ, Εμείς στο ΜέΡΑ25 εκτιμούμε ιδιαίτερα τον τρόπο με τον οποίο το ΚΚΕ περιφρουρεί αποτελεσματικά τις πορείες και τις διαδηλώσεις των μελών του στο κέντρο των πόλεων μας. Το κάνετε με υποδειγματικό τρόπο, με συντρόφους σας που φορούν περιβραχιόνια ώστε να αναγνωρίζονται από τους υπόλοιπους διαδηλωτές (μια μορφή διακριτικών, στολής). Το ΜέΡΑ25 θεωρεί […]
Η ταξική, ολιγαρχική πολιτική φιλοσοφία πίσω από το επιτελικό κράτος της ΝΔ – ομιλία στη Βουλή
, 06/08/2019
«Ο κ. Μητσοτάκης θα ήθελε να έχει καταγραφεί στη συνείδηση του ελληνικού λαού σαν μεταρρυθμιστής αλλά διαβάζοντας το νομοσχέδιο νομίζω ότι συμπεριφέρεται ως νεαρός Άγιος Αυγουστίνος που προσευχόταν θερμά στον Θεό λέγοντας «κάνε με αγνό αλλά όχι ακόμη. Βλέπουμε μια σειρά από συνηθισμένες πρακτικές. Νομοσχέδια που ενώ αφορούν ζωτικά ζητήματα είναι αποσπασματικά ή να χρησιμοποιούνται […]