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Yanis Varoufakis: 'Nobody negotiates with the EU' - BBC Newsnight

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Theresa May has been in Brussels trying to finalise her Brexit deal.
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But is the prime minister's deal the end of the long journey towards Brexit? Diplomatic Editor, Mark Urban, asks German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier his thoughts on how likely reaching a deal really is and what the prospects of hard Brexit are.
In the studio, former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, and Political Consultant, Nina Schick, discuss the state of negotiations.
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@allypoum 5 лет назад

Always got a thumbs up for Yanis - even on the BBC...

@jebbo-c1l 5 лет назад

The whole point of countries clubbing together like the EU is to get more clout in negotiations such as these.

@TedATL1 5 лет назад

Ebbe B They wouldn’t have any more clout than the U.K. if May weren’t such a horrible negotiator. UK has tremendous importance to EU economies.

@tidbit1877 5 лет назад

The UK is pathetically small compared to the EU, so no, you don't matter that much. Get over yourself. The fact is that to preserve the EU they must economically hurt the UK, this is a fact, no amount of negotiating will change this. The UK will be treated punitively by the EU, the USA(after 2020), and the rest of the western world. You abandoned our principles in favour of money, we will not treat this lightly, I suggest we remove you from NATO as well. Canada doesn't need unfaithful allies.

@horusbaals6206 5 лет назад

Tidbit The Eu is not what you think it’s a globalist destructive force

@horusbaals6206 5 лет назад

Ebbe B No it’s to control the country’s ultimately take their power away

@jebbo-c1l 5 лет назад

@@horusbaals6206 Well yea no shit, all the countries agreed to transferring some of their sovereignty when they created the EU together. Because it has obvious benefits

@merbst 5 лет назад

I like Yannis, he speaks authoritatively against the excesses of Capitalism.

@jimwest7107 5 лет назад

Emily Maitlis: When the EU threatened to switch off your ATM's the next morning did you feel that was bullying behaviour? lol Good grief.

@anthavio 5 лет назад

Nobody wanted them to turn off ATM's. Troika just refused to give Greece more money to feed those ATMs as Greeks were withdrawing all money they could because of their deep trust how Greek government will resolve dept crisis.

@noIMspartacus2 5 лет назад

Fracking hell... does anyone still take this lying hypocrite that constantly contradicts himself seriously?!?!?! just look at the results of Varoufucknukle's "policies" and "predictions" - and why do you think he was dropped kicked out of government by hid "communist" comrades who were initially selling him as a "rock star politician"?!!!! Don't fall for his duplicitous bullshit and delusions of adequacy... he is little more than slimy, treacherous little stooge and US/IMF/Soros puppet and - to quote the moron himself - "a comedy of errors wrapped up in harmless waffle" which sums the pathetic, treacherous clown perfectly...

@littlehandsgivescovfefe4837 5 лет назад

But hang on Varoufoukis maybe an imbecile but the German and French banks that looked the other way and gave tons of loans to Greece fucked up in the first place. The onerous was on them to not give a loan to group/individual or country who has a shit record.

@michaelm3691 5 лет назад

@@noIMspartacus2 "Varoufucknukle" ...that's not just an insult. It's art.

@jds3816 5 лет назад

Doesn't her commentary seem a bit abrasive? Lets be honest, she is a small conservative who will poke wholes in anyones ideas that contradict her own... that is what newsnight has become... a centre right media channel....

@sirierieott5882 5 лет назад

Yanis has been accurately describing the EU’s approach to negotiation for the past 10 years... As a defacto European superstate, they simply don’t!

@endintiers 5 лет назад

One does not simply 'Walk' out of the EU :-)

@d3r4g45 5 лет назад

Brexit delusion meets hard reality.

@HermanWillems 5 лет назад

I don't understand what is wrong with Globalism if it's done well. Globalism is the future anyway. We just need to do it properly. Nationalism doesn't work.

@d3r4g45 5 лет назад

@@HermanWillems what we are seeing is not failure of globalism. It's the end of the system held in place by the USA, and their decline. It's followed by rise of autocracy and dictators, failure of the national justice system. Failure of freedoms and rights and towards a system where power rules. Spells bad for the average citizen.

@AliothAncalagon 5 лет назад

The idea of May "negotiating" with Brussels is like the idea of a single salesman "negotiating" with Amazon. How the fuck is that supposed to work?

@richardcohen2122 5 лет назад

EU making an example of British so the other EU countries thinks twice about leaving.

@leapsplashafrog 5 лет назад

Richard Cohen Exactly with Mays secretive help

@ianbuchan1793 5 лет назад

Richard Cohen Oh really well we need to make our own laws and control our own Borders unlike the rest of the European Sheep

@riae1329 5 лет назад

I have not seen anything from the EU countries that I'd consider "punishment". Maybe you can explain what you refering to as making an example?. But even if that is the case then GB makes it really easy by not being able to say what deal they actually want (as a country) and instead contradicting themself every two sentences... Of course the EU is not going to propose a deal that is favorable for GB. What kind of negotiator would do that? Its the job of the british negotiators to come up with a deal proposal that has the approval of their people. And then to try and negotiate for it...

@florianfelix8295 5 лет назад

Yes and No. The EU simply has a much stronger bargaining Position and its aware of that. Which is by the way one of the Main bonuses dir the actually people that exists in the EU, to be a block of nations with similar basic belief systems to be able to have a strong bargaining Position against the superpowers of the world. Now that you're out of that you'll get completely screwed over and bought out by the US and China, and the EU. Welcome to reality, now have fun with it. Btw i'm really concerned about the british education system, didn't believe it was as bad as reading through all those comments Shows.

@riae1329 5 лет назад

Ok but stronger position or not, the disagreement on the British side about what they acctually want weakens their position significantly. I mean can anyone here tell me what GB wants? No free movement but no checks on the border. Independence from EU norms but unrestricted trading. Leaving the EU but for the trade relations to stay the same. Trading on WTO terms but no tarifs... Most of it isn't even cherry picking but plain contradictory. Like wanting to keep gravity but gain weightlessness.

@leoh2502 5 лет назад

Bunch of people in the comments are saying that Brexit was supposed to detach Britain from the EU cold turkey - no deals, no backdoors... Do you know what that would mean? Hard borders in Ireland, disruption of business and delivery chains, British citizens in the EU would be forced out, many laws and regulations would be thrown in the trash.

@cmw3737 5 лет назад

I know plenty of people who voted for Brexit precisely because of the way they treated Greece. It proved their true motives.

@ngp1868 5 лет назад

Free Oil comes out of rigs 8 million worth per 24 hours on small rigs. Barrels are cheaper but petrols going up

@leapsplashafrog 5 лет назад

N GP French don’t like it but the globalist Eu likes to turn off atms and squeeze. U.K. needs a sharp reverse turn and regroup with a no deal

@horusbaals6206 5 лет назад

N GP Who’s got all the money in the world ?

@horusbaals6206 5 лет назад

N GP Oil was discovered well before the 1800’s. Officially oil was discovered in....cough cough ... in 1859.... George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. However, a proper bit of research yourself and you'll soon find that in 450BC Herodotus described oil pits near Babylon..i.e. the Middle East Also in 325BC Alexander the Great used flaming torches of petroleum products to scare his enemies... The romans also used oil lamps presumably coming up into underground leakage.

@alantracy6757 5 лет назад

N GP “The world power really consists of the major Fondi families behind the Swiss Banks; the survivors of the old Venetian-Genoese banking axis; the Big Five of the world grain trade; the (hapsberg/ coberg) “British” (they aren’t) combine, centered in the Bank of England and its chartered merchant banks, functioning through the Rothschilds and the Oppenheimers and having absolute control over their Canadian colony through the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal, their Canadian lieutenants being the Bronfmans, Belzbergs, and other financial operators; and the colonial banking structure in the United States, controlled by the Bank of England through the Federal Reserve System; the Boston Brahmin families who made their fortunes in the opium trade, including the Delanos and others and the Rockefeller Syndicate, consisting of the Kissinger network headquartered in the Rockefeller Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express, the present form of the old Rothschild representatives in the United States, which includes Kuhn Loeb Company and Lehman brothers” Note the non secular issue here amongst others like who prints the money

@venetiangenoesewarmachine5152 5 лет назад

Alan Tracy The alternative view based on history is The corporate (Venetian Swiss Genoese group of banking families (Fondi or Lombard’s or Guelph’s ) jointly founded the Confederatio Helvetica, the modern Switzerland, in 1291ad. Venetians created the jesuits ie the Vatican and they own everything you need. They started all the main banks (eg Bank of England, wissel, the BIS and the fed) and put the red shield out front. It's a control operation. Military/resources (eg oil, gas, minerals), spiritual/ beliefs (ie media, politics) and financial (eg debt, banking and usury). We are enslaved across all these areas. The goal is the new world order, a global control network. Enter the Europa project

@joewood5647 5 лет назад

I would like to remind everybody that the referendum we had in 2016 was to either completely stay in the EU or to come completely, out of it. there was no mention of deals backhanded handshakes or payment/ free movement. you cannot become an independent country with ties to another country. This is what the government emailed me. A clear majority of the electorate voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum. Almost three quarters of the electorate took part in the referendum, resulting in 17.4 million votes to leave the European Union. This is the highest number of votes cast for anything in UK electoral history. This was the biggest democratic mandate for a course of action ever directed at any UK Government. And that mandate for a course of action that was ever directed at any government, was to completely come out of the EU, no payment, no deals, no free movement No nothing to be an independent country, so how as the government upheld this mandate from 17.4 million people. By completely ignoring it and overriding democracy the voice of the people because who is the Prime Minister someone that wishes to stay in the EU and doesn't it just show. she is forcing through an agreement that goes against the mandate that 17.4 million people had given her. Something else that makes me laugh, so the government is going to ignore the voice of the people democracy where the majority rules and side with the minority to stay in the EU through the back door. this is what. John McDonnell said. John McDonnell believes it is “difficult to predict” whether Brexit will ever happen, due to "parliamentary democracy" where any process must "command a majority". Well what about Parliament acknowledging the majority vote of the country the people who voted them in power which without they could not be in power. why don't it practice what it preaches and uphold the referendum and take us completely out of the EU. talk about a pack of backstabbers. and these are the clown that preach democracy the people you keep voting for. so the majority vote counts in Parliament but not in the country, talk about two faces. we will recognise democracy and the majority rules when it suits us when it doesn't we totally ignoring it. because that's what is happening in the country I live in. which is showing it's governed by dictators. so we're going to have a Brexit in voice only. just like we are a democracy, in voice only.

@fullconsciousness1448 5 лет назад

Yes, that was the vote, but not all brits are completely that stupid, they are aware of the implications of Brexit Fantasy. Only ignorants cannot see that the actual Britain brexiters claim now, was indeed created by the EU too, just for starters. They are the cake and now want to still have it haha, naive

@jonase5457 5 лет назад

@ Joe Wood, I know I am wasting my time but just for the record: 1. The referendum was about leaving the EU and nothing more which is precisely the problem. It says nothing about how to deal with four decades of common laws and economic interdependency that won't just magically disappear on March 2019. 2. There are no alternatives to the EU that are now being denied from the UK that will open up. The rest of the world is poor, underdeveloped and far which is a problem because countries trade the most with similar and close economies. 3. WTO rules cease to apply to the UK once it's out of the EU despite its membership. Until new trade schedules are approved just for the UK by all 192 WTO members the UK gets the same treatment as North-Korea and Syria. On the bright side, those are the most "independent" countries in the world as they have little ties to other countries so maybe you'll get what you want. 4. I could go on about how trade deals take years to negotiate or the thousands of little things that the UK has no capacity of doing and did nothing to build in preparation of Brexit but its pointless. Have fun becoming North-Korea or would you rather be Syria?

@rotnem0017 5 лет назад

Joe Wood lol you sound so naive I feel sorry for ya!

@joewood5647 5 лет назад

@@rotnem0017 No! it is I that feel sorry for you , for it must be terrible to have to live in a constant state of denial because you are not capable of dealing with the truth.

@joewood5647 5 лет назад

@@jonase5457 Why is the world's poor and undeveloped because the world is overcrowded with people. if you live in a confined space the more you put into that confined space the more messy it becomes. there is your answer. I watched a programme not long ago it was about a find in Cambridgeshire Fens on Must farm, they found a 3000-year-old community settlement that didn't use money but they were trading with the whole of the world, they had a good quality of life . How can that be that people 3000 years ago could trade with the world without money and do it successfully? but we with all our technology cannot? Every think you are talking about is about a modern corrupt society where people high up bring in laws and regulations to control the movement of goods so they can have a good quality life while the many suffer. I am talking about a completely different system a different way of living that doesn't revolve around destroying your own environment. It's based on the community system not one of endless growth which you cannot have can you. If you cannot endlessly pour water into a cup that why do you think you can endlessly put people onto this planet , that's the problem with the human race that trying to break the laws of physics. They are trying to endlessly put something into something that is not endless. Which you all know it is not possible to do because you practice this law of physics every single day of your life. So why do you embrace a system that says it can endlessly put something into something that is not endless. Why do you vote in people to govern you who also believe they can endlessly put something into something that is not endless. That's the humans problem it cannot deal with reality. Everything the human race is doing is wrong it is why it is infested with all these problems which you are mentioning. 3000 years ago people showed you how to live in a confined space how to trade with the rest of the world and have a good quality of life. So nobody can say it cannot be done they did it 3000 years ago. the only reason it can't be done today is because of greed and corruption.

@starcrib 5 лет назад

Yanis is the truth teller. he never misses a beat. Marvelous man.

@noIMspartacus2 3 года назад

LOL... Oh really?!?!... does anyone still take this lying hypocrite that constantly contradicts himself seriously?!?!?! He just goes round regurgitating often contradictory "theories" and rehashing the obvious and his conflicting waffle depending on the audience and who's paying... Just look at the results of his "policies" and "predictions" - why do you think he was dropped kicked out of government by his "communist" comrades who were initially selling him as a "rock star" politician?!!!! Don't fall for his duplicitous waffle and delusions of adequacy... he is little more than a narcissistic, treacherous little "populist" stooge and - to quote the pathetic clown himself - "a comedy of errors wrapped up in harmless waffle" - which sums up this champagne socialist perfectly... Lets face it, he just regurgitates and adapts his conflicting waffle according to his audience and who's paying... just ask his former "communist" comrades who also betrayed Greece - or those holding his off shore accounts... Time to wake the fracking hell up! It's actually slimy treasonous "populist" stooges like this and little niggle fartmirage that are undermining Europe!

@albertspits8370 5 лет назад

As someone from the Netherlands, I know Peter Altmaier very well, he has appeared a lot of times on Dutch television. He is a mouthpiece of Merkel and a staunch defender of the EU. Nigel Farage has hit the nail on the head by saying the EU is run from Berlin, so in effect, the EU is greater Germany. Period. The problem is no-one voted for an EU or its derivative the Eurozone. These were all foisted upon the peoples without their consent. Most member states joined the Common Market (including the Netherlands in 1957), but there was never a vote or referendum on the EU (apart from a couple of countries such as Ireland and Denmark). Therefore, in reality, the basis of this entity is illegal, and every country has the automatic right to leave this political abomination without inducing penalties or fines for doing so. Believe it or not, but most EU member states are absolutely fearful of the post-Brexit period, for they will be hit hardest by the tariffs and import duties this will contain and hamper exports to the UK. If Theresa May was a Brexiteer, she could have easily pulled it off by playing hardball, since she had nearly all the trump cards, but unfortunately, she never wanted to leave in the first place. Thus, everyone is in a state of shambles obviously.

@d3r4g45 5 лет назад

Everyone voted and keep voting. Infact we have the next Euro parliamentary elections in April 19.

@venetiangenoesewarmachine5152 5 лет назад

“Say when you couldn’t get money to live was that bullying behaviour “ says bbc mantis

@horusbaals6206 5 лет назад

Venetian Genoesewarmachine Mind control she steered the point away

@horusbaals6206 5 лет назад

Yep a bit of distraction on his point about turning off the money atms

@ppsarrakis 5 лет назад

@@horusbaals6206 they didnt turn off the money atms,they put a capital control of about ~420 euros per week of money from atm's.

@jonathonisherwood401 5 лет назад

I voted to leave and I am actually glad that the EU is refusing to negotiate because if they were actually flexible/reasonable then we would probably end up with a half-Brexit. This way we get to just walk away with no deal because theres no chance that MPs will accept the terms as they currently stand.

@geeman.8081 2 года назад

Man, it's a shame we caved in at the end 😒

@unboxingtheboxx 5 лет назад

Stay together united only so are we strong.

@jeebusk 5 лет назад

there's another person talking in this video, but i don't hear anything from what that person is saying. mentioning random names of leaders in Europe does not make you sound smart next to Yanis.

@jeebusk 5 лет назад

I like how half of this video is spent educating the random comments from host and other guest eloquently enough to avoid outright humiliating or offending them.

@arekkrolak6320 5 лет назад

"some Scandinavian countries"... there are not so many involved Scandinavian countries you know, just two to be exact: Sweden and Denmark :)

@dannyboywhaa3146 5 лет назад

Lol there are indeed only three Scandinavian countries - so ‘some’ can never be used in such a manner, in relation to Scandinavia! 🙈 oopsy daisy lol ‘some’ is more than a ‘few’, which is considered more than two... tut, tut, tut!

@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer 5 лет назад

@@dannyboywhaa3146 Wrong. Some will always preclude to the correct existing. As some can be any, unless it's just some·one or some·thing. Somebody could be anybody.

@Tavernum 5 лет назад

Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway,... That's more than 3 isn't it?

@dannyboywhaa3146 5 лет назад

Tavernum are they in Scandinavia? I think you need to check a map... you seem to be confusing the terms Scandinavian and Nordic... we’re talking nations within geographical Scandinavia here not countries that speak Scandinavian languages or have Scandinavian culture etc... cheers!

@dannyboywhaa3146 5 лет назад

Dear Mr. _-isaiah-__ deringer;_ but your examples are of a different context, no? In this context, it’s used for the purposes of counting... you’re being facetious and pedantic to say the least lol! To use ‘some’ in that context suggests more than a few but less than several... so it cannot mean two - simple!

@horusbaals6206 5 лет назад

On 9 May 2018 govt said “The UK is leaving the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union. We are seeking to establish a deep and special partnership with the EU and a new customs arrangement outside the EU’s Customs Union” Her recent 570 page document says :- Out of Sm - x Out of Cu x Out of ec justice x Out of free movement ? X = mays 570 pages Brexit plan fails. It’s actually a remain with less plan

@alantracy6757 5 лет назад

Horus Baals May is a liar and traitor

@noIMspartacus2 3 года назад

Luckily it was 'oven ready' if somewhat rather fishy...

@irezsoh 5 лет назад

The Brits need to look up exactly what the EU has done for them. The misinformation and undereducation is mind-boggling. The country is arguing about bent bananas and light bulbs when in fact, the very people who voted for Brexit are only protected by the EU legislation (which the UK implemented the last among the EU countries). Not just long ago, there was no obligatory 28 days holiday (which is knocked down to 21 in England by the way), maximum of 48 hours working weeks and health care outside of the UK (and the line is long). And before anyone starts going on about fishing rights: they will not come back. The UK had its international quotas (not governed by the EU) - Teacher sold it to foreign companies. The fishery industry will get a nasty surprise (and I feel for them as this is their livelihood, but they were conned). It doesn't really matter to me if the UK leaves the EU or if it stays in but stop blaming the EU for the self-inflicted issues that the country will carry on facing after Brexit as well. All the problems that the UK is facing internally are only down to one thing: UK politics. For a few more years, you will be able to blame the EU (they didn't give us the cherries) but there will be a time when your politicians and media will not have someone else to point the blame.

@robertbrowne4049 5 лет назад

EU never had any intention whatsoever of “negotiating” only aim was humiliation and smack down. The only way for UK to act was to say we are leaving and we have no notion of entering into ANY negotiation with dictators.

@josefinenilsson8059 5 лет назад

When you terminate your membership in a club you don't get to demand special favors. The club decides if it wants anything to do with you in the future and on what terms. Britian could have left the club without a deal the day after the referendum if it wanted to. But Britian asked for negotiations and it's government thought the PM could go to Brussels and demand all the benefits of membership without paying the 27 members for access to their facilities or even obeying their rules. She thought Britiain was so important that she would get anything she asked for. That was a serious miscalculation. The 27 members are sick and tired of British politicians baffling theatrics and delusional demands and people are rolling their eyes all over Europe. Just get the hell out.

@Crashed131963 5 лет назад

I wish The America could join the EU just to show the other countries how easy it is to leave.

@popelgruner595 5 лет назад

Erm Guys. Peter Altmaier is German Minister Minister of ECONOMICS not FINANCE! Correct the text please.

@TimD.Morand 5 лет назад

Nobody said Altmaier is Minister of Finance: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SY3wj4gmv5s.html EDIT: Oh, you RIGHT! In the description of the video, he is indeed incorrectly stated as the Minister of Finance. Good eye and thumbs-up!

@popelgruner595 5 лет назад

@@TimD.Morand Those things happen. Thanks for correcting it.

@popelgruner595 5 лет назад

@K L No ;-) He is just the German Minister of Economy. He doesn't hold two offices at once. So no double Minister. :-)

@boptah7489 5 лет назад

There is no such thing as 'hard ' or soft' brexits. there is ONLY Brexit. and WTO is the very best Brexit you can have, It is ONLY large corporations that want to remain tied to the EU.

@mranimazing2190 5 лет назад

But there *is* 'hard' and 'soft' Brexit. A soft Brexit means getting a deal. A hard Brexit means getting no deal.

@OmmerSyssel 5 лет назад

Which part of free trade didn't you understand? Absolutely no "cooperations", what ever that means, is forced trading with EU. But ordinary sense would tell any business orientated 500 billion people, some of the wealthiest in the world, would be an interesting market. As well as world highest production standards provides fairly interesting products to rest of the world.. Except UNITED KINGDOM You are already capable of tackling such minor issues.. 😉😁👍 🍻 Skål. Wish you all fair winds & following seas 🐘

@ppsarrakis 5 лет назад

not really,my friends business lost good deals after the referandum came up with probrexit, and they are not big, if anything its large corporations that want to leave so tehy can keep their tax heavens.

@OmmerSyssel 5 лет назад

@@ppsarrakis Thx. Fair winds & following seas.. Regards from DK 🍻

@markkond8565 5 лет назад

@@ppsarrakis Really? A fucking Brit of all people is going to pontificate about tax heavens? Turks and Caicos and the rest of the BOTs (that means British Overseas Territorries for your Comprehensively uneducated ass) are the mother of all taxheavens. So don't virtue signal the rest of us about tax evasion, you're the biggest crooks in the planet in that regard.

@tomhermens7698 5 лет назад

Well then Janis We must this walk away!!! What is the point if we cannot negotiate!!!

@manetarofl 5 лет назад

EU is huge, Britain is tiny... Britain is delusional about their position in the world.

@R0B1NG5 5 лет назад

I'm starting to see this ladys point on the negotiations. As much as I don't like May, I'm not sure what else could be negotiated. Between the DUP, the split in her own party and most of the leverage being on the side of the EU, it leaves very little room to maneuver. The variability of the aspects of the deal are much narrower than it may seem and she is mostly snookered because it will be shot down by one of the factions involved. Brexit was always going to be tough and I think it was dishonest of leavers to paint it as being the easiest thing we have ever done.

@tramtrackharry 5 лет назад

You have to be stronger in negotiations; you can't just turn up with a ****ing smile and hope it all works out for the best

@R0B1NG5 5 лет назад

@@tramtrackharry What does being "stronger" entail in negotiations? And how does that affect the fact that the situation has multiple involved parties having several, potentially overlapping red lines that will pull support if they are crossed? The EU has to agree to the deal, obviously. The DUP has to agree or the government is no longer a majority. Her own split party, and some members of the opposition have to pass it through a vote. For it to pass all these criteria, and satisfy the half of the country that voted leave for various different reasons is an almost impossible task, and its one that leaves very little room to maneuver in negotiating, as I said. I think you could put many people in Mays spot and the outcome would be surprisingly similar once they realized the reality of it. I think thats why she is still there. Not because people like her, or the deal. But because deep down the other politicians know they can't spin brexit into gold and are happy to stand back and watch someone else take the fall. They just register their lip-service disapproval now, for full "I told you so" rights later, even though they didn't have the guts to take responsibility of this car crash themselves. There is nothing "strong" about any of these people.

@swanpride 5 лет назад

You also can't "win" in a negotiation when everyone knows that you have no cards on the hand. The sad truth is that the UK can't afford no deal. But for the EU, a bad deal is indeed worse than no deal. The EU was very gracious. They didn't have to offer the UK anything, but they gave it no less than three options. Trouble is: None of them is better than what the UK already had. And that would have always been the case.

@con_boy 5 лет назад

Ok Currently 5% of our VAT is sent to the EU. We stop that. Imported stuff from EU pays no VAT in its domicile. Add 10% to wto tariff minus 5% from VAT savings... means... We DON'T HAVE TO CHARGE AN EU TARIFF Without a deal uk->uk costs go down by 5%.. uk->eu costs down by local vat eu->uk costs down by vat up by wto 10%

@roadrunner6224 5 лет назад

@@tramtrackharry lets face it you have absolutely NO leverage in this negotiation, the only thing that keeps the UK a bit more relevant than some other countries are your nukes, which are of no use in this negotiation. If any country in the world could decide if it wanted to trade with Germany or the UK 90% would choose Germany simply as we are more important than you. And now you face Germany+26 other countries how do you ever thought you will get anything more than we would allow you, is beyond me. At this point I´m so fed up if the unwarranted arrogance of the UK, that I believe we should make an example out of the UK on what will happen, if you pick a fight with the EU.

@KIIXI 5 лет назад

Yanis puts it very WRONGLY 'nobody negotiates with EU' EU negotiates with everyone along the lines of rules set out by members for themselves. It cannot bend rules for only one and not for others.

@alexandrosanastasiadis3372 5 лет назад

And thats how you collapse... 🙂 the rules are to serve us...if they dont we change them

@ppsarrakis 5 лет назад

@@alexandrosanastasiadis3372 problem is,you got 28 members,rules that serve 1 punishes 27 and vice versa....

@NotUnymous 5 лет назад

@@alexandrosanastasiadis3372 there can't be a "we" in your way of thinking, only an "I". And btw that not how rules / law is working.

@alexandrosanastasiadis3372 5 лет назад

@@NotUnymous i dont mean that catholical...but in a crisis its obvious that the rules must change...how is the crisis going to be dealt if you wont react to the changes of the system?

@jonathonisherwood401 5 лет назад

Isn't that the problem? Complete lack of flexibility. You dont negotiate deals by handing the other side a piece of paper listing your demands. The end result is inevitably no deal. By trying to act like a monolithic country, the EU cant even perform simple tasks without tripping over itself.

@darkofius 5 лет назад

Mr. Varoufakis is respected economist, highly intelligent negotiator, Mrs. Nina Schick has as commentator qualities but lacks in depth understanding of international finance, who is beneficiary (banking sector) taking all and should listen to Mr. Yanis Varoufakis, he puts the dot on ' i ' intelligently.

@cyb3r1 5 лет назад

I love how the reporter refers to Syriza as a populist party and is certain that Varoufakis is on the same page but then Varoufakis goes defend mode on his old friends.

@venetiangenoesewarmachine5152 5 лет назад

U.K. needs to oust May for no deal

@Nathan-sc7hs 5 лет назад

@Phoenix 'Rebels'? More like defenders of democracy. These so-called rebels you speak of are seeking to uphold a free and fair vote in the form of a referendum that had a massive turnout? The easily propagandised, such as yourself, should be sent packing beyond the English Channel, and not repatriated until fully de-programmed. Remoaners are destroying the fabric of this nation, by not accepting the result and hurling condescension and insults at leavers, while believing, in their infinite unconsciousness and hypocrisy, that genuine democrats are to blame for the growing political and social turmoil. Get the bug out of your head, man! The EU is not Europe, either in geography or culture, it is a political entity where vast unaccountable power concentrates. This is why there is such a fierce defence of it in Establishment circles. All this stuff about this organisation's continued existence being necessary to peace and stability following the end of WW2, and healthy economies, is simply smokescreen and mirrors.

@Rundismutti2001 5 лет назад

I have to point this out: both the UK and Greece put themselves in their precaurios situation, NOT the EU. BTW UK now you can experience what it’s like to be Scotland and not be listened to. Stop UK whinning and just get out.

@inmysoul7 5 лет назад

So you say that if someone rapes you its your fault right? We all should sit with legs open for germany interests againts all EU?

@Clembo 5 лет назад

We will invade your shithole and take the shiny things.

@dreamingflurry2729 5 лет назад

@@inmysoul7 Which "German Interest" are you talking about? The average German (I am one!) isn't a rich fuck! Hell, it was/is OUR MONEY that you guys burn (be it the Brits, the Italians, the Greek, the Spaniards etc.)! Germans for example are less likely to own their own house or apartment, they are a lot more likely to work in badly payed jobs than Greeks (sure: We are more likely to be employed, but that is because a guy named Gerhard Schröder heavily damaged our social security systems, we've gone through what we now expect from the Greeks (and others!)! We still suffer because of it (our old people tend to be poor - a lot of them tend to collect bottles to turn in for extra cash!) while you continued to "party"! Most of us can't afford to not work - if you are alone that might work, but if you have family? No, that just will not fly!)...seriously, you guys could at least be a little grateful that we allowed our (often shitty!) government to bail you out and didn't storm parliament to demand they let you guys drown in debt!

@irezsoh 5 лет назад

@@inmysoul7 It is a bit rich coming from a country that colonized the world not even so long ago... and no, you were not raped. You were in it because it benefited you. Then the Trumpism came along and people were brainwashed to hate something that they have no real idea about (hence the Google searches after the referendum).

@crimson_Slime_ 5 лет назад

@@dreamingflurry2729 Germans did nothing like that for the UK in fact the UK did a bailout for Ireland and all the British people want is there sovereignty back, to have the laws decided in the land and to be able to hold the people making the laws to account which can not be done as part of the European Union as the European Union wants more of the sovereignty the member countries have left so they can create one European Nation.

@MalakAlMaut6860 5 лет назад

I can't remember a deal been on the ballot paper just in or out and this isn't out

@melthalin3559 5 лет назад

No. Not inevitable. This isn't a free trade deal, this is staying in the EU and giving up all power in exchange for ending free movement.

@MrLioncash 5 лет назад

WE VOTED TO LEAVE. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. It's not up to MP's. It's not up to the EU. It's the decision of the PEOPLE, through the system of democracy we all decide to take part in. The EU is in no position to negotiate. It was our decision. All that has been said so far is "Accept the deal or you won't like the consequences" It's not a deal. It's less than a deal. It's being a part of the EU but having NONE of the benefits but also none of the benefits from leaving. It's the EU turning us into a vassal state and punishing us until we eventually collapse back into it.

@ursus9104 5 лет назад

Then just leave!

@matthiase3287 5 лет назад

Actually the UK can leave without a deal. Noone is stoping them. Just not having a Deal will turn the UK to any other third nation. That is a consequence. You dont want to have that. IF UK accepts a deal they accept it because they think it is worth it. But you cannot blame the EU for not giving you the deal you want.

@OjoRojo40 5 лет назад

That's what we fucking want! @@ursus9104

@matthiase3287 5 лет назад

@Kevin Picton "although that has always been the problem in politics, western style democracy makes it so every nation is stuck with one or 2 crap parties full of crap leaders that nobody even wants and we are stuck voting between dickhead 1 and dickhead 2 who no one wants and who is out of touch with the people. " Actually that is a problem with "first pass the post" election system." CP Grey" has a video on that if you care. The Dutch for example have a parliament that consists of 13 parties. Btw possibly try to find out why these "elites" think that even quite a bad deal is better than no deal. Might help you understand the other side.

@Sm4shBG 5 лет назад

@Kevin Picton lol remember the election after breit where may, with her coalition, achieved the majority? MEMBER THAT U FUCKFACE

@katiemiaana 5 лет назад

"No one negotiates with the European Union" and yet he wants to be in it? I really don't get this guy.

@herculeholmes504 5 лет назад

I do. He's controlled opposition.

@alexandrosanastasiadis3372 5 лет назад

He says one simple shit...eu will change or die...he is on the change side

@jorgegomez524 5 лет назад

he is a globalist. but a soft globalist. money for everybody.

@mutebanshee 5 лет назад

Because you can only change it if you're in it. That is when you have a say in debates, rulemaking, legislation and reform. You cannot change the EU while being outside of it.

@heather725 5 лет назад

JUST WALK! Sack Theresa May, vote her out.

@orbazel 5 лет назад

As stated many times, Theresa May and here civil service cohorts treated brexit as a disaster that needed to be mitigated rather than the opportunity it offered. The last 2 years of so-called negotiations have been a sham. The real negotiation was when Cameron came back with the emergency brake that we turned down. At that point we were supposed to leave. No negotiations and use the 2 years to develop relations outside the EU while aiming for a free trade deal with the EU.

@mgBabylonRocker 5 лет назад

The opportunity to hasten the UK's economic demise?

@ursus9104 5 лет назад

British fools. You certainly cannot have other free trade deals other then Canada or Norway. It's not possible.

@orbazel 5 лет назад

@@ursus9104 A Canada style deal would of been great, but our own PM dismissed it straight away as it didn't solve the Irish problem. A solution to which the EU itself suggested but that too was turned down in private by Ollie Robbins. This is the problem, the EU has never really been the issue.....it has been or own parliament and Civil Service, most of who's members have financial interests, either directly or third party with the continent.

@LeedsUnitedJohn 5 лет назад

It was because of Greece I voted to Leave the EU. The EU treated them awfully.

@LeedsUnitedJohn 5 лет назад

@Phoenix How about the Brexiteers staying at Home and the EU Remoaners moving to the EU.

@ursus9104 5 лет назад

@@LeedsUnitedJohn Oh, they will and are already moving. Many to their summer houses in France, Spain and Portugal.

@Cjnw 4 года назад

Traitor

@michaelm3691 5 лет назад

Sure they do. You just don't negotiate from a position of self-inflicted weakness by making outrageous demands and insulting your opponent. Yanis didn't understand that and neither do the Leavers.

@christiaanhetzner1193 5 лет назад

well put. Varoufakis and his government essentially promised that a referendum against the bailout terms would give them negotiating leverage to cancel a portion of their debt. While debt restructuring in the private sector is commonplace, it usually wipes out investors and causes a haircut for creditors. There is no political support to restructure profligate governments especially those with overly generous systems of patronage like Greece. The Euro Zone already was forced to break its no bailout clause, but to then admit to the citizens whose tax money was used to prop up Greece that they will never see that money again (while logical given Greece's insolvency) would result in immediate retribution at the ballot box. Varoufakis' needed to take the message to the German, Dutch people etc directly and appeal to their solidarity rather than hope Merkel would give him what he wanted.

@jimwest7107 5 лет назад

What outrageous demands did we make? I don't recall any. Everything we wanted favoured the EU also in the long run.

@michaelm3691 5 лет назад

@@jimwest7107 The leave campaign promised you could get border control while keeping open borders. That you could get access to a single market defined by shared regulations without following the regulations. That you could still travel and live abroad freely to the same countries you now could restrict movement from.

@TheSpiritOfTheTimes 5 лет назад

@@christiaanhetzner1193 The Rodrik trilemma is a real thing. UK options are also very clearly only three: 1) continued membership (which isn't an option anymore really) 2) EEA taxation without representation basically 3) hard exit, WTO-rules. What happened with Syriza was a very clear demonstration that the current EU architecture doesn't allow for democracy and national sovereignty has to be further diminished, and urgently so.

@andrew300169 5 лет назад

CastAirLead Non of what you say is correct, there is an outline of intentions but the EU have been quite clear from the beginning that the four freedoms must remain intact and being outside you will not get the benefits of being inside, this will not change no matter how much you wish it.

@simonadamson9261 5 лет назад

Nina Schick... speaks very sensibly, not heard of her before.

@chrisjobson9544 5 лет назад

Firstly, May's deal will not pass parliament. Secondly, 12 weeks is nowhere near long enough for a 2nd referendum (i know...shame). When 29th March comes, we will have no deal signed and simply leave. If you read article 50, that is exactly what it states. Brexit means exit.

@Lixsna 5 лет назад

The Greek / Varoufakis "negotiation" experience was from a bankruptcy position where they couldn't make demands on anyone, whether it was the EU, or Mickey Mouse at the top of a Disneyland roller-coaster queue. With his laughable martyr reasoning, Varoufakis may as well travel the world portraying himself as a persecuted victim and declaring "Nobody negotiates with Mickey Mouse."

@awesomeavenger2810 5 лет назад

Very true. He was a failed finance minster who's only answer to Greece's problems was that the Germans should throw money at him.

@awesomeavenger2810 5 лет назад

@@turquoiseowl Thats called socialism. Spread the poverty.

@swanpride 5 лет назад

He is also absolutely dishonest there. He didn't demand a "restructuring" of the debt, he wanted giant debt relief, and Nina Schick is absolutely right, the Greeks might have "democratically" voted for it, but democracy does NOT mean that you can vote for something another country should do. Neither the German people nor the people anywhere else in the EU were in the mood to give Greece another debt cut before any attempts to restructure the country had been made, and THEY had a vote in the matter, too. That's democracy.

@TheSpiritOfTheTimes 5 лет назад

@@swanpride Horseshit. "Debt relief" could and should have happened aynway as a large part of it could be written off as odious debt incurred by the undemocratic military government propped up incidentally by the UK among others. The first bailout wasn't fucking done for the "Greek people", it was done for German and French banks lol. It's your understanding of "democracy" that is constrained to the point it's obvious the EU in current iteration would ultimately fail. You want it all: democracy, the EU and national sovereignity in the sense that there is no common fiscal authority and "the people" are responsible for the national govt fuck-up. You can only have 2 of the 3.

@dannyboywhaa3146 5 лет назад

turquoise owl both are at fault if the debt is insurmountable etc...

@d3r4g45 5 лет назад

You cannot have your cake and eat it too 🍰

@d3r4g45 5 лет назад

@Kevin Picton just don't blame it on the EU if your plan doesn't work out 😉

@PanglossDr 5 лет назад

Things would have been so different if David Cameron had done two things: 1. Talk to the Irish Taoiseach about haw to organise a Referendum 2. Talk to Yanis about how to deal with the EU

@fenhen 5 лет назад

But... they need us more than we need them! Right....?

@jurgenforster8314 5 лет назад

Why would we the New Reich compromise?

@MrJonnyl123 5 лет назад

It's madness we are not going for the Norway option

@venetiangenoesewarmachine5152 5 лет назад

MrJonnyl123 Mays delusional ego stopped it

@czarzenana5125 5 лет назад

Why wouldn't you go for the Norway option? Negotiations on the future trade relations haven't started yet. First we have the withdrawal agreement to get over with.

@OmmerSyssel 5 лет назад

The obvious madness is you whining leavers double standards. Ongoing howling (lies..) about awfully EU rules & still wrenching the best options. As always in life you can't have it all.. Please sail on.. Believe me, - no one will miss you 🙏

@KarmaChameleon274 5 лет назад

ArrigAutist it’s amazing how people can defend the EU and everything it stands for, Plans to build an EU army should be a scary enough thought. No wonder Russia feels threatened.

@OmmerSyssel 5 лет назад

@@KarmaChameleon274 Have you ever travelled outside your mother's dark cellar? In my lifetime entire Europe has gained a lot positive from unity & open trade. Why is Russia threatened by peaceful united neighbours? Any invation plans within EU? Do you think they Putin fears honest opposition to his megalomaniac expansion plans..? 👀 Are you supporting a dictatorship..? When you dare taking first step out of your mother's safe housing, try visiting former Russian territory. The might share their experiences with past oppression, & opinion of their wishes for future life in freedom & wealth. Have fun kiddy 🐘

@fleischwolf82 5 лет назад

Backstop clause is insane, with this clause the UK stay inside indefinetly. That is great for the EU and will give them a super huge advantage in negotiations. They will laugh at UK's request...

@ppkoning 5 лет назад

Why ask the opinion of a failed Greek minister? And how on earth do you want to compare the UK to Greece?! In short: BS

@jameswhiteley6843 5 лет назад

But remainers will happily have us tied to this cancerous union forever.

@andreisopon4615 5 лет назад

Leading and shaping it, you mean.

@MrMartinNeumann 5 лет назад

Yea, I prefer if the cancer (UK) is finally cut from the union.

@dannyboywhaa3146 5 лет назад

Andrei Sopon now that must be satire? Surely? If not, you’re mad and not very observant lol

@andreisopon4615 5 лет назад

@@dannyboywhaa3146 Single market was Margaret Thacher's creation. Not one law ever passed in the UK was ever interfered with by the EU. UK has the largest seat at the table relative to population size and money payed in. UK can Veto any EU law it doesn't like. UK Government white paper for exiting the EU declared UK has always been sovereign. Back to you.

@frankhofmann5910 5 лет назад

Boy, you could leave before Christmas without a deal. Just do it!

@SchnuckySchuster 5 лет назад

Janis, if Bavaria would have a democratic vote to reinstate the heirs of Otto the first to the greek throne, would you be willing to honor the result? After all it was a democratic decision.

@K-sp 5 лет назад

Which legal framework would support such a democratic decision? At least get the basics right if you want to conduct ridiculous comparisons.

@Argosh 5 лет назад

@@K-sp a couple gun boats perhaps? That's all the legalese that was required to subdue Ireland and Scotland...

@K-sp 5 лет назад

@@Argosh Bavaria doesn't have any gun boats. Mind you, we were talking about a democratic vote.

@campbell1213 5 лет назад

@@Argosh When was Scotland subdued?

@alexandrosanastasiadis3372 5 лет назад

@@Argosh oh you really wanna try that?

@bernardfinucane2061 5 лет назад

If the EU had opened up the 28 way free for all that May was hoping for, there would never have been any agreement. It would literally have taken centuries. I don't think the EU has much choice. They have to give Brussels a mandate to negotiate with very little flexibility because no government in Europe (including the British) has the time or manpower to restructure the enormous apparatus of interational relations that all countries are bound to and profit from. Put more simply, Brexit is a distraction from governing that nobody who knows what's going on wants or needs. If the British government wants to abandon governing so it can take time to shoot itself in the foot, they can't be stopped. But they shouldn't expect other European to drop everything and to play along. They have better things to do, so the leave it to the bureaucrats to deal with the mess.

@beardedroofer 5 лет назад

As an outsider looking in, I dont understand the problem. If the UK wants out of the EU, or any country member for that matter, then dissolve that members union. It'd be the same here in the US, to a degree, if a state were to secede from the union. In fact, it happened in the 1800`s. Unfortunately it led to a tragic civil war, so there's that to watch out for.

@mmarsh1972 5 лет назад

That's not the problem, nobody is preventing the UK from leaving. The EU charter specifically allows members to leave. The problem is the UK is insisting it leaves the EU but keeps all the goodies it gets from it, like access to the single market. Its like a member of a gym who wants to no longer wants to pay his membership or follow the gym rules, but still wants full access to the gym, swimming pool, spa, and sauna. Not surprisingly the EU is telling them to fuck off... The EU told the UK from the very beginning it was all or nothing, but Brexiters think this is "bullying".

@herculeholmes504 5 лет назад

*British People:* "We want to leave the EU". *EU:* "NO." *British Government:* "oh well, can't be helped, nothing we can do. So sorry."

@ngp1868 5 лет назад

Hercule Holmes As if the saxe coberg gotha Windsor family have no power ?! As if the people can’t just say no I’m not doing it get out May !

@alantracy6757 5 лет назад

N GP Hapsburg family original Windsor’s house of orange

@gerbenvanessen 5 лет назад

you ca n still leave. but that requires border checks between uK and EU so how would you fix the north irish border issue? because that is your main problem right there. the only actual problem solving action I've heard from Brits is "invade Ireland" And let's be honest, that will just increase the net ammount of problems inside the UK.

@xNovaservx 5 лет назад

The EU has not said no?

@herculeholmes504 5 лет назад

@gerbenvanessen There is no problem with the North/South Irish border. It is a trivial issue that the British Government is using as an excuse to oppose Brexit. A "hard border" means walls, fences, gates, security lights, border patrols; both North and South (NI and ROI) have already agreed on a "soft border" plan which has existed for many years, similar to the border between Canada and the USA.

@matthiaskomar8959 5 лет назад

I see. Yanis Varoufakis still plays the victim. Thank god the Greeks kicked him out

@Dragonfallz 5 лет назад

He tried to change the EU system but he was hit by a bureaucratic brick wall, what else could he do?

@alexandrosanastasiadis3372 5 лет назад

We didnt.kick him out...we greeks voted 62% for him...he resigned because our govt was sold off...like your govt sooner.or later 🙂 thats a global phenomenon

@ursus9104 5 лет назад

He was and still is mad.

@PhoebusG 5 лет назад

Pretty much what Alex said, he won the referendum. Tsipras backstabbed us all for his precious chair...

@peterhardie4151 3 года назад

Here is a small violin playing for all those people who still think the EU is a progressive institution.

@GStbadmoon 5 лет назад

Soft Brexit is not Brexit at all. A German smile is telling. But this deal will not go through. It doesn't wash.

@Yawnymcsnore 5 лет назад

The EU makes me sick

@abbofun9022 5 лет назад

BestBloke , that’s because all the news about EU has been warped and poisonous in past few decades. So many lies in the UK press, it’s incredible. No wonder people are angry.

@abbofun9022 5 лет назад

freebeerfordworkers, only this time the blockade is of your own making, you wanted WTO, isn’t it? WTO means extensive borders and customs, that means delays, that means shortages if you don’t prepare. It al simply follows from your own choices, read the bl..dy rules!! It aint no fairy land out there idiots.

@user-bi5ov8ev9y 5 лет назад

BestBloke are you sure your not sick from all the anti eu crap you’ve been putting into your head?

@KIIXI 5 лет назад

Bestbloke You are free to live somewhere else

@josselynemaire4745 5 лет назад

@freebeerfordworkers The EU is doing nothing. You did it to yourself.

@ilidiocarmona4827 5 лет назад

we were not a populist movement......you lost me there!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahaha

@markkond8565 5 лет назад

Yeah, that one had me scratching my head. Syriza was very much elected on populism but nowadays it's actually policy driven. But that's neither here nor there because in Greece, the opposition always gets elected on populism and after they become government they may keep on trucking with populism or switch to policy and get defeated next election. It's a crapshoot really.

@ReubenAStern 5 лет назад

I hate how she is trying to turn it into an emotional conversation. It's obvious everyone's miserable. I'm glad he doesn't fall for it, and keeps trying to give us relevant info.

@anderslee99 5 лет назад

What was the point in having on that EURO mouthpiece Nina Schick who didn't bring a single different or constructive thing to the conversation. What a waste of a time!

@rwilsonpaladin 5 лет назад

It sounds like that the EU is like the Iron Bank of Braavos in Game Of Thrones.

@ivykkb2975 5 лет назад

The other lady should do her homework before talking to the man or open her mouth.

@jblogs1000 5 лет назад

this is the hotel eu phobia you can check out any time you like BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE

@machoward6443 5 лет назад

Yanis is missing a point - the circumstances have changed considerably. The May deal was done when Britain (stupidly in my view) had taken a no-deal brexit off the table. Pushed by the remainers Britain said they would not simply walk away. This pushed the negotiations to the EU's advantage and allowed a deal very much in their favour. No wonder the 27 countries accepted it with little fuss. But now a no-deal brexit is very much on the cards - if nothing can be agreed then a no-deal brexit is the default position. The EU will suffer almost as much as Britain from that. In particular the Rep of Ireland will suffer more than any other, including Britain, because the majority of its trade is with Britain. May's deal will pass through parliament without the backstop. It's the Rep of Ireland that is insisting on the backstop - the rest of the EU are merely showing solidarity. Ireland is already beginning to show signs of vacilating on this. I wonder if May is not the helpless pawn many think (she never seemed fazed at the defeats she suffered in parliament) but she knows exactly what she's doing - walking the EU to the edge of the no-deal brexit abyss when Ireland will cave and decide May's deal with the backstop is better than the no-deal brexit scenario. Two alternatives The EU steps into the abyss Parliament forces a delay which pushes it back.

@machoward6443 5 лет назад

Four lines from the bottom - should have been WITHOUT not with.

@spasmae866 5 лет назад

Taking Varoufakis seriously is like believing Farrage or Boris.

@maghrebforever2012 5 лет назад

I believe his perspective is valuable; maybe even comprehensively reasonable. But he is also an actor on the field. Altogether worth considering his opinion earnestly

@Sillysod 5 лет назад

Incorrect. Thatcher does and the rebate benefits us to this day.

@lirsun9788 5 лет назад

EU didn't do anything to you Yiannis, it was the Greek governments of the last 3 decades that were responsible for the situation of Greece.. A quick analysis of what Yannis blames EU for. - Greeks 20-30 years ago : *Let's get some money from EU, we will cook our books to present our country as economic heaven* - EU : *Gives the loans for investment* - 2008 : *Greeks are found to have cooked their books for the financial status of the country, the country is heading towards total collapse* - Varoufakis 2015 : *EU gave us those loans while knowing we were bankrupt [it's their fault]* - Varoufakis 2018 : *EU bullied Greeks by closing their bank accounts in order to sign a deal*

@Dragon-gl1rw 5 лет назад

I only like the headline.

@hammerblack1859 5 лет назад

Who are Brussels and why are they so powerful

@cantcomprehend1 5 лет назад

THE UK JUST NEEDS TO GO OUT FOR A PACK OF CIGARETTES !

@pamazat 5 лет назад

This BBC interviewer is a fool. Trying to draw any parallels between Greece and Brexit is ridiculous. Democracy and transparency in Europe is where Varoufakis is coming from. He has huge intellect and understanding of the issues. She just wasted his and the viewers time.

@rodneyhenchliffe754 3 года назад

There is a lot at steak. A lot. Steak ... I'm hungry!

@laggeryt7558 5 лет назад

BBC used to be more unbiased...

@sv-bd5em 5 лет назад

this is so stupid im sorry. the divorce money was known BEFORE the referendum it's not like they just made it up. who do you think will pay for the pensions of the british citizens formerly employed by the eu and for the eu projects ongoing at british universities? we had A deal with the eu before we entered it so how thick can you be to not expect there would be one once we exit

@czarzenana5125 5 лет назад

Yanis doesn't seem to understand the difference between a withdrawal agreement and a trade agreement. A Norway-style agreement is a trade agreement and can only be negotiated after the withdrawal. In fact, the UK can still negotiate a Norway-style agreement or a Canada+ agreement or anything else.

@sniperpd9505 5 лет назад

The r German Chancellor and the French President always get what they want in the EU.. expect they initiate most of the legislation also. Other member states are afraid to say NO to them.

@joanofarc33 5 лет назад

Leave it!

@honeybeebadger 5 лет назад

UK always punches above it's weight.

@zaftra 5 лет назад

This is why the UK has to leave the EU, you have a club were most are net recipients dictating what the net contributers have to do.

@glenquinn6853 5 лет назад

Will the BBC and all tv media stop showing us the eu rag. And start show in the British union jack

@wemuk5170 5 лет назад

Varoufakis is absolutely right. Nobody negotiates with the EU. Read his book on how the EU treated Greece & democracy with disdain. May could easily have a deal: what Varoufakis termed as the 'Norway plus' option (pleasing the Remainers) or a Canada plus model (pleasing the Leavers). Instead May recklessly & heedlessly opted for her own half-baked nonsense which no one from all sides could swallow.

@marc21091 5 лет назад

Yanis Varoufakis is very clear about both what happened to Greece; and that the UK should have told the EU it was taking the EEA route - and not 'negotiated'. He has said that from the time of the Referendum so it is good that he repeats it in November 2018. Both Varoufakis and Ms Schick state that the EU does not negotiate - it is a set of bureaucrats with a line to follow. As usual the Newsnight interviewer could have done a lot better by allowing Varoufakis to talk for longer about how the UK should have proceeded. But compared to some Newsnight coverage (notably when Evan Davis or James O'Brien are in the chair) this was fairly good.

@GorinRedspear 5 лет назад

That's what the EU said back in the beginning: here's the packet we offer, take it or leave it, but if you walk away we'll have to start from square one.

@bergahorn4352 5 лет назад

A bloody genius, runs rings around most political commentators, has a depth of knowledge on finance & world economics currently perhaps second to none.

@salt27dogg 5 лет назад

berg ahorn wrong ! He’s a pseudo genius. He is brilliant about the economic issues but his economic vision is not realistic

@Crashed131963 5 лет назад

I wish The America could join the EU just to show the other countries how easy it is to leave.

@johnharris452 5 лет назад

I sincerely hope the deal is voted down and May is replaced by a Brexiteer. As it stands Parliament voted for article 50 and now we have a legal statute that says we leave on 29th March regardless of deal or no deal. Calls for another referendum/ general election is resisted and new Brexiteer M.P. plans for a 18 months extension to buy time ( it will cost us money) and goes flat out to prepare for no deal. Our £39b is held in escrow until we have achieved our exit to ensure cooperation by the E.U. We past a law that says U.K will not create a hard boarder in Ireland and play Eire's/E.U. bluff.There will be harm in the short to medium term, and those businesses that want out can go in an orderly fashion. We survived and rebuilt after two devastating world wars, we have transformed across several "revolutions" in our industrial base since the 1970's. With the advent of the A.I. revolution on the horizon we need to look to the future and gear up for that. Leaving the E.U. will shake up this country and reenergise it talents. It will give us a new purpose and focus around which to unite. Yanis told us right at the start not to enter negotiations with the E.U. and how right he has proved to be.

@jonathanwarner1844 5 лет назад

Remember that Yanis Varoufakis wants the UK to remain in the EU, so naturally he will push the "Norway" option, which leaves us in the Single Market, with Freedom of Movement, and on course to become part of the EU superstate, via the single EU citizenship that "freedom" of movement brings with it.

@Alfadrottning86 5 лет назад

It is a simple case - really .. and hardly anything new. Imagine that ... lets say the UK was still a member of the EU as it has been for decades (that is a semi leading member with special rights within the EU body) Imagine a 3rd country with BIG ambitions approaching the EU - asking to get a slice of its cake - offering ... well ... actually nice benefits. How would you imagine / wish the EU to act in such a case? - Of course .. be a tough negotiator, negotiate DOWN from a position of power - take as much as it can get, give as little as it needs to. And i am 100% certain that the UK as a member of the EU would 100% support such a stance. Only problem .. today the UK is this third country

@richarddriveways8874 5 лет назад

If we cannot negotiate we should walk, it's complete madness why any person would agree to deal with the EU. GET US OUT BEFORE WE END LIKE THESE OTHER POOR PRISONER COUNTRIES!!

@ArunPlaysPiano 5 лет назад

Can you hire Yanis as your political correspondent please?

@Ozymandias1 5 лет назад

Only 41 days left. But yes it will all go away. Pinky-promise!

@doemijmaarfriet 5 лет назад

The EU is simply a powerhouse, get over it, get real. Look at Trump, that house didnt act very different.

@PanglossDr 5 лет назад

I wish people, all over the Internet would use correct terminology. There have never been 'Negotiations' between the EU and the UK, there have been discussions. In a negotiation there is give and take. In this case there has been none. There never was the remotest chance of any. The EU said what it wanted and the UK has been struggling for 2 years to accept that. Finally, the UK has agreed, effectively, to all the EU requested. The current deal is second worst possible to No Deal. The UK tied in forever to compliance with EU rules, but absolutely no influence over them.

@heather725 5 лет назад

The Norway model should have been adopted by the UK! The current dictatorial EU model is flawed. A free, less regulated, more informal alliance which recognises national borders, cultural differences and varying national economic and social priorities would b e a better model for everyone.