Negotiating Brexit – On Channel 4 News
Interview begins at 1’45”Filed under: DiEM, European Crisis, Politics and Economics
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The Cambridge Union’s 2016 London Debate – Friday 23/9
Varoufakis’ speech last Michaelmas was thought to attract over a thousand students [The following is re-posted from the Cambridge Union’s The Tab] With the Autumn Statement of the new Government looming, the Cambridge Union takes over Inner Temple hall to question the … Continue reading →
A message for left wing comrades – Berlin, 17 September 2016
The above is an extract from a joint pre-election speech, for the Berlin state election, by Varoufakis and Kipping and Lederer at Astra Kulturhaus Berlin, Revaler Str. 99 Filed under: DiEM
On the need to face the facts about big business before democracy gets a chance – NYT Athens Democracy Forum Debate
Paul Krugman, Ross LaJeunesse (Google), Yanis Varoufakis (DiEM25) and Yasheng Huang, economist, M.I.T.Filed under: DiEM, Politics and Economics
My letter to supporters of Another Europe Is Possible
In a letter addressed to supporters of Another Europe Is Possible, Yanis Varoufakis makes the case for the organisation to unite with the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 Dear friends, Before the referendum we worked together to convince the people … Continue reading →
Speech at DiEM25’s pavilion, Fête de l’Humanité 2016
“It is time for Europe’s humanists to reclaim Europe” Last year, I came to La Fete with a message from Greece. The Athens Spring had just been crushed by the Troika because Europe’s Establishment was planning to bring the Troika … Continue reading →
Stefano Fassina on my ‘Europe’s Left After Brexit’
Stefano Fassina was kind enough to respond to my article entitled Europe’s Left After Brexit. His reply follows. On Sept 6, Yanis Varoufakis offered an interesting review here of the progressive positions addressing EU problems. The first one, he underlines … Continue reading →
Democratising Europe – a transnational project? A debate with openDemocracy
YANIS VAROUFAKIS, ROSEMARY BECHLER, ALEX SAKALIS, and ANTHONY BARNETT 13 September 2016 (Click here for the openDemocracy site) What role does national self-determination and ‘self-government’ play in European and human emancipation today? Yanis Varoufakis replies for DiEM25. Yanis Varoufakis has recently … Continue reading →
Interview with the Berlin Policy Journal in 140 characters
You left office about a year ago – any regrets? None whatsoever. Once it was no longer possible to do good for Greece as minister, there was no reason to stay in office. Your proudest moment as #Greece’s Minister of … Continue reading →
Europe’s Left after Brexit
In reply to Tariq Ali, Stathis Kouvelakis, Vicente Navarro and Stefano Fassina on DiEM25’s plan for resisting within the European Union Preface: This article (published in edited form in Jacobin, Neues Deutschland, Il Manifesto, Mediapart and elsewhere) addresses left-wing critics … Continue reading →