Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
On February 1, 2025, Yanis Varoufakis spoke at an event organised by @DiEM25official in Amsterdam with Jeremy Corbyn, TNI's Bríd Brennan, and Diem25's Lucille Cornelius.
Yanis Varoufakis critiques Europe's economic and political decline, blaming austerity policies that benefit the wealthy while leaving the majority behind. He highlights the 6 trillion euros printed for bankers, which were not invested in the economy but used to buy back stocks, leading to stagnation in Europe. This lack of investment, particularly in emerging technologies like AI and green technologies, has caused Europe to fall behind other regions, resulting in a decade and a half of economic stagnation. Varoufakis argues that this stagnation fuels political fragmentation, rising far-right movements, and a lack of European unity in confronting global issues such as the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza. He critiques European leaders for being complicit in the status quo, aligning with the US while failing to uphold international law and human rights.
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On February 1, 2025, Yanis Varoufakis spoke at an event organised by @DiEM25official in Amsterdam with Jeremy Corbyn, TNI's Bríd Brennan, and Diem25's Lucille Cornelius.
Yanis Varoufakis critiques Europe's economic and political decline, blaming austerity policies that benefit the wealthy while leaving the majority behind. He highlights the 6 trillion euros printed for bankers, which were not invested in the economy but used to buy back stocks, leading to stagnation in Europe. This lack of investment, particularly in emerging technologies like AI and green technologies, has caused Europe to fall behind other regions, resulting in a decade and a half of economic stagnation. Varoufakis argues that this stagnation fuels political fragmentation, rising far-right movements, and a lack of European unity in confronting global issues such as the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza. He critiques European leaders for being complicit in the status quo, aligning with the US while failing to uphold international law and human rights.
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![Short documentary: Barcelonas water business scam/Lestafa del negoci de laigua [es & eng]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YXfm6J0jl44/mqdefault.jpg "Short documentary: Barcelonas water business scam/Lestafa del negoci de laigua [es & eng]
Presented at the Future is Public conference 2019: https://futureispublic.org/
We are living in a crucial moment. Cities are on the front lines of today’s most urgent challenges, including fighting climate change and rising inequality, as well as the need to support refugees and provide universal access to public services that are human rights including housing, drinking water and sanitation services, energy, health care and education. These global problems call for public solutions.
A growing network of progressive, green municipalities is developing strategies to tackle these and many other critical issues. Cities are well positioned to explore direct democracy, and advance innovative economic models that build community wealth and create decent jobs. At the same time, we need a national level of coordination and ambition to reverse market fundamentalism, which is the root cause of our collective economic and social crises. Profit-driven, market-based policies led to the privatisation of our public services and to the denigration of solidarity and public service.
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