"Democracy, Socialism, Europe and Scottish Independence – four clips on STV" - Yanis Varoufakis

Entrevista

"Liberal Totalitarianism" - Yanis Varoufakis

It used to be an axiom of liberalism that freedom meant inalienable self-ownership. But liberal individualism seems to have been defeated by a totalitarianism that grew out of its own success at legitimizing the encroachment of branding and commodification into our personal space.

"Spain’s Crisis is Europe’s Opportunity" - Yanis Varoufakis

The Catalonia crisis is a strong hint from history that Europe needs to develop a new type of sovereignty, one that strengthens cities and regions, dissolves national particularism, and upholds democratic norms. Imagining a pan-European democracy is the prerequisite for imagining a Europe worth saving.

"Trump, the Dragon, and the Minotaur" - Yanis Varoufakis

If Donald Trump understands anything, it is the value of bankruptcy and financial recycling. He knows all about success via strategic defaults, followed by massive debt write-offs and the creation of assets from liabilities. But does he grasp the profound difference between a developer’s debt and the debt of a large economy? And does he understand that China’s private debt bubble is a powder keg under the global economy? Much hinges on whether he does.

"Europe’s Left after Brexit" - Yanis Varoufakis

Preface: This article (published in edited form in Jacobin, Neues Deutschland, Il Manifesto, Mediapart and elsewhere) addresses left-wing critics of DiEM25 claiming that DiEM25 is pursuing the wrong objective (to democratise the EU) by means of a faulty strategy (focusing at the European rather than at the national level). This response, while addressed to left-wing supporters of Lexit (the strategy of calling for referenda in favour of leaving the EU, Brexit style), is pertinent also as questions raised often within the other political traditions that DiEM25 seeks to unite in the struggle to democratise Europe; i.e. authentic liberals, ecologists, feminists, members of pirate parties, activists unwilling to be embedded in existing parties, progressive conservatives even.

"L'Union européenne est en train de s'écrouler" - Entrevista com Varoufakis

Il y a un mois, l’homme ayant tenu le rôle de ministre grec des Finances de janvier à mars 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, faisait son retour sur le devant de la scène. Il lançait un mouvement politique pour tenter de sauver une Europe menacée, selon lui, de désintégration sur fond de crise des réfugiés. L’iconoclaste économiste, chantre de l’anti-austérité, est désormais à la tête d’un mouvement paneuropéen qui veut agir pour plus de démocratie et de transparence. "L’Echo" l’a interrogé (par mail) sur cette Europe qu’il critique tant.

"Europe and the Spectre of Democracy – interviewed by Michel Feher"

"Our movement to democratise Europe & developments in Latin America and China – Interview with Brazil’s GLOBO TV"- Yanis Varoufakis

Recently I was interviewed by Brazil’s Globo TV. The extensive interview covered a large number of issues – from the European crisis and our fledgling movement to democratise the European Union (to be launched on 9th February in Berlin – WATCH THIS SPACE!), to the Middle East, the global economy, Brazil, the rest of Latin America and its economic reliance on a slowing China.

"In Defense of Varoufakis"

From blaming him for the renewed collapse of the Greek economy to accusing him of illegally plotting Greece’s exit from the eurozone, it has become fashionable to disparage Yanis Varoufakis, the country’s former finance minister. While I have never met or spoken to him, I believe that he is getting a bad rap (and increasingly so). In the process, attention is being diverted away from the issues that are central to Greece’s ability to recover and prosper – whether it stays in the eurozone or decides to leave.