Britain needs to choose its dominant Brexit strategy – The Telegraph
Imagine that we knew the day of our death. Our lives would change drastically. Though we know we shall surely die, not knowing precisely when the mortal coil will be shuffled off makes all the...
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A Speech of Hope for Britain – The NewStatesman, 20 MAR 2019
The memory of past greatness can be debilitating for a people who feel they have failed to rise to a historic occasion. We Greeks have been burdened by this sensation at various moments in our...
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Why Norway plus gives Britain the time it needs to get out of its Brexit mess...
Brexit is, undeniably, important. The Prime Minister’s faulty negotiations have now turned what the majority of the British people considered an opportunity into a national crisis. However, now is...
View ArticleBBC Question Time, Sheffield 27th March 2019
“Britain needs a People’s Debate on its business model and its Constitution independently of how Brexit pans out… The most sensible way would be for the UK to exit the EU but stay in both a Custom’s...
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Brexit: On May’s mistakes and the best road ahead – Financial Times video
Sharing a taxi with the FT to give my view on how Prime Minister Theresa May undermined herself – and on the steps that must be taken next. https://www.ft.com/video/01aef2cb-81b9-4dbb-9f8b-85a0c9559097
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FT Alphachat 28 MAR 2019: On Democracy, Europe, the UK and Greece
Alphaville’s Jemima Kelly and Izabella Kaminska sat down with Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and current organiser of a trans-European group, DiEM25, of what he calls “radical...
View ArticleDiEM25 and the European Parliament election in the UK: A proposal
DiEM25 members are currently debating our collective stance viz. the European Parliament elections in the UK (that, remarkably, may or may not take place). Since 2016, DiEM25 has been on the right side...
View ArticleShould Jeremy Corbyn commit to a second referendum? The Independent
Should Jeremy Corbyn adopt an unequivocal commitment to holding a second referendum? Under normal circumstances, it should be an easy question to answer: democrats who think of referendums as a useful...
View ArticleSince the Withdrawal Agreement cannot be re-negotiated before Brexit, only a...
Theresa May’s sequence of strategic errors has rendered impossible a soft Brexit. By adopting red lines consistent solely with a hard Brexit, while denying herself the option of walking out without a...
View ArticleWhat the Labour Party-DiEM25 collaboration is all about – speech by Yanis...
On Sunday 14th July, the Labour Party and DiEM25 leadership teams agreed to embark upon a common agenda for Europe and beyond. Later that day, the collaboration was announced at the closing plenary of...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn’s finest hour? IRISH EXAMINER (Project Syndicate)
Jeremy Corbyn must expose Boris Johnson’s no-deal Brexit as a Trump-deal Brexit and put forward Labour’s plan to end the interminable Brexit ordeal immediately, suggests Yanis Varoufakis Boris Johnson...
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IQ Squared presents Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno on Money, Power and a Call...
The liberal order is under threat. Increasing inequality, the rise of far-right nationalism and the climate emergency pose unprecedented challenges. It’s time for some radical thinking. On November 4th...
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Boris is doing a troika, not a Varoufakis – IRISH EXAMINER
ATHENS – Ever since Boris Johnson moved into 10 Downing Street vowing to re-negotiate the United Kingdom’s withdrawal agreement with the European Union, the conventional wisdom among many Brexit...
View ArticleProgressive Internationalism & why a Corbyn government is the only cure for a...
At this year’s The World Transformed, we caught up with some of the key figures in the movement for a new economy and politics. In the grand finale of our exclusive series, Yanis Varoufakis speaks to...
View ArticleCaroline Lucas & Yanis Varoufakis search for what went wrong with democracy –...
The Green Party MP and the MeRA25 leader journey from democracy’s inception through the tumultuous Brexit period and through to the year 2035 There’s chaos on the streets of Westminster as the...
View Article“Brexit, for all its ills, has reinvigorated British democracy”– Cambridge...
Last Friday (8th November 2019), I delivered a Cambridge Union address on (what else?) Brexit. My opening message was: “Instead of moaning about the state of British institutions, rejoice! For all its...
View ArticleWhy is economics not a force for good and what must we do to make it so?...
On 8th November, at the invitation of Professor Antara Haldar of Cambridge University, I presented this talk in the context of a fascinating group of academics who gathered in the Cambridge Union’s...
View ArticleLabour’s 2019 Manifesto: My assessment on BBC Radio 5, 21 NOV 2019
As an economist, Labour’s 2019 Manifesto strikes me as a sensible, moderate and well-targeted program in view of Britain’s needs and capacities. Independently of what one thinks of Corbyn and McDonnell...
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