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 return democracy to the people.
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 UK, says Yanis Varoufakis
Many of the same people lament the state of a broad, however amorphous western society that has succumbed to the trends of hyper-identity politics, political and economic sectarianism, brutal financial capitalism and the death of industry and censorship in societies that still preach the self-righteous yet vague cause of ‘freedom’.
Nigel Farage has given an interview with the German publication Zeit in which he came under attack from a reporter so self-absorbed that it is puzzling how he could call himself a serious interviewer.
Throughout the interview, Farage defended himself against a line of questioning that was absurd, pompous, self-important and downright immaterial. It was less of an endeavour to have a civilised question and answer session than it was a total hatchet job wrapped up in a police style interrogation.
Russia has always occupied a special place in the west’s imagination. The stereotype of Russians is long-standing and seemingly immutable – brutish, backward, drunken and menacing. Essentially the opposite of how the west thinks of itself. Indeed, in the western mind Russia and Russians are an important negative reflection of how the west defines itself.
May 9th, Europe Day, is meant to commemorate Robert Schuman's plan to ease trade between european nations. Today, however, the European Union doesn't exactly stand for free markets. But take care, the eurosceptic movement has been infested by opponents to the liberty movement.
While hard-line Remainers are convinced that people in poorer areas were somehow conned into voting against their own interests, Cornwall, the UK’s largest recipient of EU regional development funds, was widely mocked for voting Leave and then requesting reassurance that Westminster would fill the funding gap. As Cornish voters have clearly been aware, however, the money the EU has seen fit to spend in Britain is less than the amount the UK sends to the EU in the first place.
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
— Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary
Both candidates in the French Presidential election have been throwing around the term ‘Frexit’, a possible French withdrawal from the EU which France founded as the then European Economic Community or Common Market in 1957.
