Climate Change
Yanis Varoufakis: My plan to revive Europe can succeed where Macron and Piketty failed
Under my Green New Deal, €500bn a year can be created without raising taxes – and it may tempt Britain back to the fold. Read here
Yanis Varoufakis
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – TIME magazine’s report on DiEM25’s German party campaign for the European Parliament
This is an interesting foray into desolate German politics by the pan-European movement DiEM 25. By Billy Perrigo Cross-posted fromYanis Varoufakis´s blog On Sunday morning, the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis picked up a microphone in […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis: “The EU declared war and Theresa May played along”
The former Greek finance minister on how a bad Brexit deal became inevitable and his plan to transform Europe. We at Brave New Europe don’t take a position on Brexit. While we recognise that many […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – The euro and Steve Bannon’s Fascist International
On 17th October 2018, Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice President of the European Commission, addressed the Oxford Union in support of the motion that “the euro has never been stronger“. Today, Friday 16th November 2018, Steve Bannon […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – Can you take on the EU and win?
The former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis staked his political career on getting a deal with the European Union – and lost. Now, as Theresa May enters the Brexit endgame, he looks back at the […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: On Europe’s austerity drive and DiEM25 – an OECD podcast
One country that symbolised the crisis of the last 10 years was Greece. Its insolvency embarked the country on a long regime of bail-outs and austerity. This August, Greece officially emerged from the crisis, with […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – The new Italian government is continuing the failed Renzi strategy
This is the English language (original) interview with Arcangelo Rociola, published on the AGI site in Italian, on the Italian government’s clash with Brussels over its budget deficit, the plans for a flat tax (that is […]
EU politics
Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Ken Loach, Brian Eno, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and 21 others: Flawed reporting on antisemitism claims against the Labour party
This is a brilliant example of how corporate media function s in order to destroy any attempts at rolling back neo-liberalism. The coverage was an asbolute disgrace. Read here
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – 2008 and the International New Deal we need for the post-2018 world
This was Yanis Varoufakis´s keynote address at the OECD on 14 September. Although a long read, it is a good analysis of the past, present, and what could be the future. Yanis Varoufakis is co-founder […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: Our new international movement will fight rising fascism and globalists
Maybe there is an international leftist movement gaining traction – although this would just be a beginning. See the piece by Yanis Varoufakis on this topic here Read here