Lessons from 2008 for beyond 2018: Keynote this Friday 14th September at the...
Before 2008 we could all see that global trade imbalances were growing inexorably, creating a glut of savings in surplus countries that flowed into deficit countries, causing house price, stock...
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2008 and the International New Deal we need for the post-2018 world – OECD...
2008 marked globalised capitalism’s near death experience. A decade later we have no right to be looking at those events as part of our economic history. The reason? We are still entangled in the...
View ArticleDiEM Voice presents HERE & NOW: A CREATIVE VISION OF EUROPE, with Brian Eno,...
A culture war is underway in Europe – not between the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘nowheres’, but between those who use culture to divide – by class, by race, by nation – and those who use it to connect and...
View ArticleArt and Class War – Introducing DiEM25’s Art & Culture Policy Agenda. At...
Brian Eno correctly said that children play to discover how the world works and, once they grow up, art is the adult way of continuing to… play. But, then, he incorrectly surmised that art is not...
View ArticleThe euro and Steve Bannon’s Fascist International – Oxford Union address,...
On 17th October 2018, Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice President of the European Commission, addressed the Oxford Union in support of the motion that “the euro has never been stronger“. Today, Friday 16th...
View ArticleRealistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities – Oxford University, Taylor...
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. In my book was addressed to my daughter regarding the...
View ArticleAt the Edinburgh Festival, in conversation with Jeremy Corbyn on reviving...
In 2018, the good people behind the Edinburgh Festival kindly invited me to host a series of discussions under the title KILLING DEMOCRACY? My remit was: Further to explore the question of whether the...
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DiEM25’s online art auction: A new way of funding democratic movements and a...
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 bankers, Brussels, oligarchs and assorted vested interests –...
View ArticleOur moment in history, and what must be done. Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris,...
Monday 18 February, 20.00, live from Théâtre du Rond-Point. A discussion between Aude Lancelin and Yanis Varoufakis on politics and philosophy. Follow on @LeMediaTV.
View ArticleUtopian science fictions legitimising our current dystopia – 2019 Taylor...
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. I chose the topic of Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic...
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The European Spring in full bloom this Monday at the Bozar Theatre, Brussels....
In the last week of May European citizens will have their last chance to vote in a European Parliament election that makes a difference. It will be a paneuropean election where we can, perhaps for the...
View ArticleOn how DiEM25’s Green New Deal differs from the agenda of the European Greens...
To read DiEM25’s Green New Deal and join the many, including 18 parties from 13 countries, that have ‘taken the pledge’, click here.
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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...
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 Article“Should liberal capitalism be saved?”A debate between Martin Wolf & Yanis...
On November 14, 2019, The Wincott Foundation will host an evening debate at the Financial Times to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. This special event takes the place of the usual annual Harold Wincott...
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Sophisticated Heretic – Interview with the Cambridge Union magazine TCS
Yanis Varoufakis has been adamant that he is not a politician. He might be an economist, though his conversation with Margaret Levi – a Stanford political scientist – at the Cambridge Union last...
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...
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Is capitalism past its expiry date? Munk Debate (K, Vanden Heuvel & Y....
The capitalist system is broken. It’s time to try something different. For my 3 minute conclusion of this debate, jump to 1 hour 59 minutes There is a growing belief in western societies that the...
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