Adults in the Room

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.

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.

 
Dear Wolfgang,
I read carefully and listened your recent statements in response to journalistic questions emanating from my recent book “Adults in the Room” relating to our conversations during the first half of 2015.

“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 and then by a heavy-handed international push to bully his government into accepting draconian spending cuts that ravaged the lives of millions of his fellow citizens.

Costa Gavras, whose films shaped the conscience of the internationalist  struggle for democracy everywhere, yesterday issued the following statement – in the context of the launch of the Greek edition of my Adults in the Room. Needless to say I am chuffed and deeply grateful.

Click here for the pdf of the review

Η ελληνική έκδοση του βιβλίου του Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη για την Ελληνική Άνοιξη 2015, που έγινε best seller στην Βρετανία υπό τον τίτλο ADULTS IN THE ROOM, παρουσιάζεται την Δευτέρα 9/10 στις 7μμ στην Τεχνόπολη Δήμου Αθηναίων (Αεροφυλάκιο 1 – Αμφιθέατρο) υπό τον τίτλο ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΙ ΗΤΤΗΜΕΝΟΙ: Για μια ελληνική άνοιξη μετά από ατελειώτους μνημονιακούς χειμώνες.
Το βιβλίο παρουσιάζουν οι: Νάντια Βαλαβάνη, Βασίλης Βασιλικός και Νίκος Θεοχαράκης. Συντονίζει ο Κωνσταντίνος Πούλης (ThePressProject). Κείμενα θα διαβάσει η Μαρία Καρακίτσου

Wolfgang Schäuble may heave left the finance ministry but his policy for turning the eurozone into an iron cage of austerity, that is the very antithesis of a democratic federation, lives on.

Yanis Varoufakis  discusses how to negotiate with the EU and his proposal to introduce fiscal money with Anatole Kaletsky, Co-Chairman of Gavekal Draganomics, David Alandete, Managing Editor of El Pais, and Torsten Riecke, Handelsblatt’s international correspondent.

Yanis Varoufakis begins his account of his half year as Greece’s finance minister in the left populist Syriza government (Adults in the Room, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) with a description of a meeting with Larry Summers. According to Varoufakis, Summers explains that there are two types of politicians. There are those who are on the inside and play by the rules. They can just occasionally accomplish things by persuading others in the room to take their advice.