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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

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The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It

19.12.2024 60

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump

ATHENS – Donald Trump is as sincere as he is capable of being in his determination to eliminate the US trade deficit. But the US trade deficit is...

02.12.2024 30

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Yanis Varoufakis

The Spirit of Brexit Has Infected the EU

ATHENS – When the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum yielded its unexpected result in 2016, the European Commission enlisted three men to ensure...

31.10.2024 30

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Yanis Varoufakis

Draghi’s Report Confirms Europe’s Irreversible Decline

ATHENS – When the euro crisis was young, some of us became convinced that a massive public green investment program was necessary to save Europe...

23.09.2024 30

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Yanis Varoufakis

The Road from Fascism

ATHENS – The recent riots in the United Kingdom have demonstrated, yet again, the inability of liberals and leftists to figure out how to appeal to...

19.08.2024 20

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Yanis Varoufakis

Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

ATHENS – France’s political impasse reflects an economic conundrum that is insoluble under the present European construction. After four years of...

26.07.2024 30

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Yanis Varoufakis

Three Myths Haunting the West

ATHENS – Confident elites reflect viable regimes. Today, elites on both sides of the Atlantic are anything but confident. For the past year, they...

26.06.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Strict Separation Is Not the Answer for Palestine and Israel

ATHENS – Recognizing a Palestinian state is the moral thing to do and the only way to achieve a just peace in the Middle East. To convince the next...

29.05.2024 60

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Yanis Varoufakis

Banned By Germany

ATHENS – Three weeks ago, I was banned from entering Germany. When I asked the German authorities who decided this, when, and under what rationale,...

30.04.2024 60

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

A European War Union?

ATHENS – Europe has become unrecognizable. Advocates of European unity used to celebrate the European Union as a peace project pitting a splendid...

03.04.2024 20

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Yanis Varoufakis

A Tax on Robots?

When robots began stealing jobs from humans, it was easy to panic and call for some sort of tax by which to restore the humans’ competitiveness. In...

11.03.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Economics Is Irredeemably Sexist

ATHENS – Economics has an intractable “women problem.” High-school girls avoid it. Female undergraduates abandon it. And the problem runs deeper...

06.03.2024 80

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Yanis Varoufakis

The Two Faces of the Euro

ATHENS – Of all European politicians who never led their countries, Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble had the greatest impact on Europe. Between...

19.01.2024 50

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Yanis Varoufakis

Europe’s Bad China Bluff

ATHENS – On the December 7, the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission, Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen,...

19.12.2023 50

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

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