The most outrageous political moments of 2025 with Yanis Varoufakis

A year-end livestream exposing the hypocrisy, authoritarianism, and economic injustice that defined 2025 – with live audience voting and analysis from Yanis Varoufakis

As 2025 draws to a close, those who hold power are already busy rewriting the story of the year – smoothing over scandals, normalising the unacceptable, and presenting failure as inevitability. At DiEM25, we refuse to let that happen. In this special year-end livestream, Yanis Varoufakis takes a sharp, uncompromising look back at the political moments of 2025 that most clearly revealed how power really operates in Europe and beyond.

This is not a conventional recap, and it is certainly not an exercise in polite commentary. Instead, we present the deliberately unofficial Shamelessness Awards: a satirical but deadly serious review of the year’s most outrageous acts of hypocrisy, authoritarianism, corruption, and economic injustice. Each category comes with a carefully curated shortlist of nominees – and the final decision is made live by you, the audience.

As the votes roll in, Yanis responds in real time, unpacking not just what happened, but why it happened. He will connect the dots between individual events and the deeper structural forces driving them, explaining what these moments reveal about the trajectory of European politics, global power struggles, and the future of democracy itself.

This interactive livestream is also a space for collective reflection and resistance. By naming shamelessness, we strip it of its power. By understanding the mechanisms behind it, we equip ourselves to challenge it.

Tune in, vote, and make your voice heard. Join us in deciding which moments of 2025 deserve to be remembered – not as footnotes rewritten by the powerful, but as warnings, lessons, and calls to action. Hosted by Mehran Khalili.