On Greece & Brexit – BBC2 tv Newsnight, 9th May 2016
Filed under: And the Weak Suffer What They Must? - the book, DiEM, European Crisis, Greek Crisis, Politics and Economics
Greek crisis
On CNN, discussing Greece and its creditors with Fareed Zakaria
How Greece was turned into a permanent debt-deflationary trap through unsustainable extend-and-pretend bailout loans. And how difficult it was to negotiate with creditors who do not really care about getting their money back. CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE OR CLICK … Continue reading →
Europe and the Austerity Fallacy – at the The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
The European Union is a house of cards threatening regional stability and global prosperity, argues Yanis Varoufakis. The flawed architecture of the EU’s institutions, which struggled to develop an effective or coordinated response to the Eurozone crisis, has never been … Continue reading →
On CBC Radio: Former Greek finance minister says Greece was fiscally waterboarded by creditors
Click here or on the image above to listen to the interview.Filed under: And the Weak Suffer What They Must? - the book, DiEM, European Crisis, Greek Crisis
Council of Foreign Relations, NYC: The Future of Greece and the Eurozone – in conversation with Standard & Poor’s Chief Economist
On 25th April 2015 I had the pleasure to engage in an open discussion with Paul Sheard, Chief Economist with Standard and Poor’s, at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. Watch the video of our discussion and/or read … Continue reading →
Is a More Democratic Alternative to the EU Possible? James Carden in The Nation
Yanis Varoufakis—the leftist former finance minister of Greece who experienced the crushing power of eurozone austerity firsthand—thinks so. By James Carden For The Nation website click here. Otherwise… Chicago is, among many other things, the home of what is, for better … Continue reading →
Der Spiegel op-ed: Endgame for the IMF-EU Feud over Greece’s Debt
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 … Continue reading →
THE IRISH TIMES reviews ‘And The Weak…’
For the site of The Irish Times click here. Otherwise… Eight months after his abrupt resignation as Greece’s finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis is back in the thick of things, leading a new pan-European political movement and promoting a new book … Continue reading →
Can two leftwing gurus save Europe? Chronicles by Thomas Piketty; And the Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis
Review by Paul Mason At the battle of Gettysburg, the defence of the Union army’s flank was entrusted to a man whose biggest responsibility until then had been as professor of rhetoric at an east coast university. In the 1993 … Continue reading →
Guardian Long Read – Why we must save the EU
5th April 2016. For The Guardian site, click here. Otherwise… The first German word I ever learned was Siemens. It was emblazoned on our sturdy 1950s fridge, our washing machine, the vacuum cleaner – on almost every appliance in my … Continue reading →