Posts By: Yanis Varoufakis

Reflections on 2019 — Yanis Varoufakis

27.12.2019

Campaigning across Europe nearly broke me. But it also convinced me of the deep well of progressive energy waiting to be tapped.

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Interview: Yanis Varoufakis on Capitalism, Democracy and Europe

4.11.2019

As harsh austerity and xenophobic nationalism fester in Europe, Yanis Varoufakis discusses his antidote with Tellus Senior Fellow Allen White.

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Yanis Varoufakis: I just pulled out of a conference in Turkey in protest at the invasion of Northern Syria’s Kurdish region

11.10.2019

TRT World’s enthusiastic support of the recent invasion of Northern Syria makes it impossible for me to attend.

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Yanis Varoufakis: "I Am Not Boris"

27.08.2019

Lazy analogy: Leading Brexiteers and many Remainers have sought to portray Yanis Varoufakis as one of their own.

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MeRA25 as the only ray of hope on the day the recalcitrant Greek Right returned to office

8.07.2019

Greece’s Tories, the New Democracy party and its leader, Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis, today are the victors in our general election. However, their ...

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Today, DiEM25 has every reason to celebrate. Tomorrow we get down to work, again – message to our magnificent activists

29.05.2019

We have planted a beautiful, radical idea in the minds of Europeans. Our task is now to help this seed of hope grow.

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Against the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

5.04.2019

DiEM25 opposes the censorious incursion into freedom of expression that the European Parliament voted for in the form of the EU Directive on ...

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DiEM25’s online art auction: A new way of funding democratic movements and a new relationship between participatory politics and art

1.02.2019

DiEM25 is changing the way we do politics and fund our campaigns. From our first day, we declared that we shall not be receiving money from ...

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Our plan to revive Europe can succeed where Macron and Piketty failed | Yanis Varoufakis

13.12.2018

Under my Green New Deal, €500bn a year can be created without raising taxes – and it may tempt Britain back to the fold.

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