Corruption
Yanis Varoufakis
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – Why the Deutsche Bank merger with Commerzbank must be stopped
The official story is one of creating a national champion, a German bank large enough to compete with American investment banks. The truth is far less heroic and a lot more sordid than that. Here […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – EU Court defends the ECB’s right to cover up its illegal closure of Greece’s banks
The European Union Court delivered its verdict: European citizens cannot be allowed to find out whether the ECB acted legally in closing down Greece’s banks in June 2015. Why? In the wording of the three […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Utopian science fictions legitimising our current dystopia
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. I chose the topic of Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities – my aim being to […]
Economics
David Adler and Yanis Varoufakis: The World Bank and IMF are in crisis. It’s time to push a radical new vision
The exit of Jim Yong Kim offers a chance to put the Bretton Woods institutions in the service of the many, not the few Read here
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing my candidacy for the European Parliament in… Germany
Get caught up on Yanis Varoufakis´ political activities and plans. Listen here Please begin at 1’20” for the English part (before that is in German).
Climate Crisis
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
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 […]