Posts By: Yanis Varoufakis

Europe’s 15-year slump

Opinion

22.11.2023

Europe is languishing in a long-term economic slump whose origins lay in Wall Street’s near-death experience in 2008

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Yanis Varoufakis answers FAQs on Israel-Palestine

20.11.2023

I answer a number of questions I am frequently asked by friends and critics on the Israeli-Palestinian issue

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The big idea: Has the digital economy killed capitalism?

Opinion

15.11.2023

Rather than turbo-charging the free market, Amazon et al have brought back a kind of feudalism

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Capitalism is dead: Long live Technofeudalism

Opinion

27.09.2023

We have returned to our former status as serfs, contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labour

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Europe’s fading democracy

Opinion

14.09.2023

In recent years, three developments have all but destroyed the idea of the EU as an effective force for good within and beyond Europe

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Greece was destined to burn

Opinion

26.07.2023

Did we invite this Promethean punishment?

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Austerity ruined Europe, and now it’s back

Opinion

21.07.2023

Europe is responding to the US investment boom with a return to the austerity policies that caused it to fall behind the US in the first place

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Why the EU has out-Trumped Trump

Opinion

18.07.2023

Europe has proved far more adept at building walls than the former US president was

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Our defeat in context: Greece’s Erdogan-isation is almost complete

Opinion

22.05.2023

MeRA25 seems to have suffered because we tried to inspire our base with hard-hitting truths rather than soothing false narratives

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