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“La crisis se está haciendo más profunda, más tóxica, más permanente” (“The crisis is getting deeper, more toxic, more permanent”) – El Diario interview, 13/1/2018 (including the original English text of the interview)

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“Europa es exactamente lo opuesto a democracia”, asegura el ex ministro griego de Finanzas y cofundador de DIEM25, que ajusta cuentas con los protagonistas de la crisis del euro en  “Comportarse como adultos“

“El Gobierno español actuó firmemente en Bruselas contra los intereses de la inmensa mayoría de los españoles”
“El bitcoin es una espléndida burbuja y nunca podrá operar provechosamente como moneda”

Internationalism vs Globalisation – op-ed in The Globe & Mail, published as “Globalization is stuck in a trap. What will it be when it breaks free?” – 12 JAN 2018

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Back in 1991, a left-wing friend expressed his frustration that “really existing socialism” was crumbling, with exaltations of how it had propelled the Soviet Union from the plough to Sputnik in a decade.

I remember replying, under his pained and disapproving gaze: “So, what? No unsustainable system can be, ultimately, sustained.” Now that globalization is also proving unsustainable, and is in retreat, its liberal cheerleaders resemble my friend when they proffer similarly correct, yet irrelevant, exaltations of how it lifted billions from poverty.

Μια εξαιρετική γερμανική ιδέα για το 2018 – ΕφΣυν 29 Δεκεμβρίου 2017

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Το 2017 ήταν άλλη μια χαμένη χρονιά για την Ευρώπη. Το 2016 ακόμα και οι πιο δύσπιστοι Ευρωπαίοι κατανόησαν ότι το πράγμα δεν πάει άλλο και ότι απαιτούνται ριζικές θεσμικές αλλαγές στην Ευρώπη. Παρ’ όλα αυτά, οι απαιτούμενες αλλαγές εμποδίστηκαν από τη συνήθη διαφωνία ως προς το τι πρέπει να γίνει – μια διαφωνία που ο Μακρόν είχε περιγράψει ως τον «ιερό πόλεμο» μεταξύ των γερμανικών και γαλλικών ελίτ.

The High Cost of Denying Class War – Project Syndicate op-ed, 8th December 2017

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ATHENS – The Anglosphere’s political atmosphere is thick with bourgeois outrage. In the United States, the so-called liberal establishment is convinced it was robbed by an insurgency of “deplorables” weaponized by Vladimir Putin’s hackers and Facebook’s sinister inner workings. In Britain, too, an incensed bourgeoisie are pinching themselves that support for leaving the European Union in favor of an inglorious isolation remains undented, despite a process that can only be described as a dog’s Brexit.

One Schulz does not a federation make: Comment on Martin Schulz’s belated federalist speech

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Isn’t it remarkable how establishment European politicians speak common sense once they have lost power and are about to begin their long slide into oblivion? Martin Schulz just copied that pattern with his passionate federalist speech and his pronouncement that “the EU cannot afford another four years of German European policy à la Wolfgang Schäuble”.

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