Yanis Varoufakis » European Crisis

Advocates of European unity used to celebrate the European Union as a peace project. But well before Russia invaded Ukraine, the European vision of a peaceful road to shared prosperity had begun ...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/04/22/a-european-war-union-project-syndicate-op-ed/

“Europe and Australia are facing a common existential threat: a creeping irrelevance caused, on the one hand, by our failure properly to invest and, on the other hand, by our ill-considered sli...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/03/14/how-europe-and-australia-can-end-our-slide-into-irrelevance-servility-national-press-club-of-australia-speech-13-march-2024/

Of all European politicians who never led their countries, Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble had the greatest impact on Europe. Between them, the two men, who passed away within a day of each...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/02/03/the-two-faces-of-the-euro-jacques-delors-and-wolfgang-schauble-project-syndicate-long-read/

Wolfgang Schäuble was the embodiment of the political project of buttressing a monetary union in which he himself did not believe. To do so he had to impose violent austerity even in Germany and...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/12/27/wolfgang-schauble-1942-2023/

Against the backdrop of the new cold war between the United States and China, the European Union’s top brass seems to be adding to the pressure on China by issuing credible threats in response ...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/12/24/europes-bad-china-bluff-project-syndicate-op-ed/

As the 24th EU-China Summit concluded on Thursday, it is natural to want to look behind the declarations and official speeches to identify the deeper forces shaping the European Union’s relatio...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/12/11/why-europe-is-not-free-to-relate-to-china-china-daily-op-ed/

Since taking over as president of the European Central Bank in late 2019, Christine Lagarde has committed three major errors that play right into the hands of right-wing populists. Now, one can o...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/09/27/christine-lagardes-gifts-to-populists-project-syndicate/

The United States is experiencing an investment boom, owing to industrial policies that grant enormous subsidies – including to European firms – for investing in America, largely in green tec...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/07/17/austerity-ruined-europe-and-now-its-back-project-syndicate-op-ed/

From the Great Moderation to the Great Crash, the Great Recession, the Great Stagnation, the Great Inflation and, finally, to the Great Volatility. What are the forces driving this 50yr dynamic? ...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/02/26/whats-behind-the-great-volatility-audio-of-ssga-zurich-address/

A new cold war is upon us, but only China is in a position to push it beyond the point of no return. That moment will come when China’s policymakers cross the Rubicon and decide to wean Chinese...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/02/20/will-china-dump-its-dark-deal-with-america-project-syndicate/

The real problem confronting European manufacturing is not the threat of factory closures. It is that, compared to the United States and China, Europe has fallen far behind in the race to accumul...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/01/23/is-europe-deindustrialising-project-syndicate/

The post Europe, the War in Ukraine, Technofeudalism & the challenges ahead – at the 2022 Global Investment Forum appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis .

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/01/01/europe-the-war-in-ukraine-technofeudalism-the-challenges-ahead-at-the-2022-global-investment-forum/

Every fortnight, DiEM25’s coordinating team livestreams our internal discussions of topics central to Europe’s and the world’s current predicament. On 8th September 2022 we discussed the el...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/09/21/europes-electricity-market-the-scam-of-the-century-video/

Greeks and other southern Europeans could now be feeling schadenfreude as Germany faces the collapse of its economic model in the face of the Ukraine war and the new cold war with China. But with...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/09/18/24667/

Με άρθρο του στη γαλλική εφημερίδα «Les Echos» ο Pierre Demoux σχολίασε την κριτική που έκανε σε συνέντευξή του στην �...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/06/20/les-echos-les-temps-ecb/