Yanis Varoufakis on Angela Merkel’s Legacy, European Politics & the “Sordid Arms Race” on the Seas 

He’s absolutely right. As a German, nothing will change. Some cosmetic variation of the same

He is a man that understands our times, many governments would benefit from his wisdom. Also, Another Now is a great read.

Thank you Yanis for cutting through the nonsense. SPD, DSU, Greens are one and the same on the issues that impact people's lives.

Thank you Yanis, I was thinking here in lock-down Sydney Australia what you would have thought of the Submarine fiasco and you answered it. I am also in agreement with one of our ex Prime ministers Paul Keating who stated that with this deal we could lose our sovereignty. What a mess! P S Yanis was right about Julian Assange, they are trying to kill him slowly. What a world we live in.

The first words out of his mouth, " Let's stop hyperventilating" . 👏

I always love what yanis has to say.

Im always impressed by the clear insights and thoughts of Varoufakis. A true leftist intellectual.

Yanis, you're the best! You speak truth, even if it endangers your career or life.

When this man speaks my brain expands! Wonderful understanding of the hypocrisy in Europe!

Solid podcast. Very informative and Yanis Varoufakis is very eloquent. Thanks to both Amy and Yanis.

Ah, just like the U.S. Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else.

just one small correction: German SocDems put austerity measures in place in Germany in 2003 not 2009, when they were the leading party the last time under Gerhard Schröder.

This man’s intellectual understanding of events is greatly appreciated

THANKS for the very first sentence Yanis. Indeed not much has changed. As someone who lives in Germany I find it very irritating when the SPD is portrait as this leftist-proworker force. Yeah maybe that's historically true but most certainly not for the last 20-30 years. The SPD is along with the CDU responsible for all sorts of neoliberal policies in Germany and the EU

Thank you again for your continued commitment to excellence in journalism.

Varoufakis is always a pleasure to listen to

France: France 🇫🇷, please relax and just make an equal deal to build us more trains and busses. We all love your public transportation equipment.

I’m living here in Czech.. it seems through this view, that it’s difficult in Czech for Czech companies to put products on shelves of German supermarket chains, yet logistics centres here mostly owned by German based multinationals are popping up like mushrooms. Soaking up much of the lower cost labour.. is this the legacy of Merkel?

Yanis again thank you for your insights. People share this video far and wide, in fact there are a few of his videos that should be circulated. By sharing we can hopefully enlighten the snoozing. Major change starts with a whisper.

I love listening to Yanis.

Thank you, dear Yanis 🙏🏽

I like Varoufakis but what he says about "green transition", the germans want to do that but the math doesn't check out. Where should the energy come from if coal and nuclear are gone? That is a big question mark. In the end Germans will have to return to nuclear. I disagree with him on the refugee issue: Europe cannot receive all the refugees of the world.

What most people outside the EuroZone don't fully appreciate, is that the EZ has de facto no Central Bank. Taxpayers need to bail out states - hence the highest rates of savings and complete lack of meaningful investments.

The United States government and the American people would do well to seek out this man's wisdom.

Simply love Tanis 👍💙 he talks TRUTH and lots of sense!🌍

“Another Now” indeed comrade? How about helping the Syrian workers by not arming and hoarding Islamic mercenaries by the European countries-NATO- if I remember correctly?

Sehr gute Darstellung und hochinteressante Inhalte. danke für Ihre wertvolle Arbeit

Amy the audio issue is not so much with skype as it is the usual: speaker phone instead of a mic, echo chamber room instead of a soft room. Many people like you and Yanus simply talk far too fast for the electronics, so WE suffer. I wish you would take this to heart for once…

guuuurrrlllllll !! Katya sent me here ! u wud not believe what she said. the shade !!!

Thank you

Well… As a social democrat, here in Germany 🇩🇪 myself, I mostly agree with what Yanis is saying … Minor twitches … Germans are by their very Nature, risk avoiders … I will not get into the psychology details as to WHY that is, let’s just say that others country’s around Europe are much more willing to throw out a sitting government or have their country up in arms, so to speak, about any number of issues. Like the French for example, wich Germans secretly admire for that, by the way … However… As far as the leading candidates for the ruling party’s at the moment, the CDU and the SPD … have to do the trick as to implement change, or signal their voters a willingness for change, but not as much as to scare them away… Besides the fact that any federal government in Germany does not have as much influence on general policy terms, unlike any other European government… because of our decentralization of power… THX to WW2 … In fact some argue that we almost always have a grand coalition because the sixteen states PLUS the federal government have constant battles about laws and influence… and the individual States are very protective of their constitutional powers. That is somewhat mitigated on the international stages, where the federal government has sole responsibility, but even THAT changed couple of years ago … when NOBODY was making a fuss, in a election cycle about foreign policy’s until that is … until a social democrat, G. Schröder made the point, in a election year of not getting into the quagmire that was the Irak 🇮🇶 war … and the opposing conservatives lost that election. So as you can clearly see … it is not as clear cut and easy … is it anywhere … not easy to talk about a country and determine it’s politics from the outside view… nevertheless… Yanis insights are always welcome since a OUTSIDE view, makes it clear to insiders who can’t see the forest, because of all the trees 🌳 Keep up the good work you folks doin … 👍 Even so I don’t always agree … I will always listen what you have to say… Stay safe and … get the „shot“ …👋

Long live freedom and democratic communism

Excellent idea to ask Varoufakis who has first-hand knowledge of the power-conscious and ruthless real Merkel who is a far cry from the media Merkel.

Many people do not understand or do not want to understand that membership in the Eurozone is a legal obligation to observe certain stability and financial rules, including the ban for the ECB on public financing, compliance with debt limits, and the no bailout clause. Austerity is a consequence of legal binding rules of the Eurozone.

I guess that it's the same, no matter where you are, so we're all screwed.

Question: why or how does the US have any say in what military gears is sold internally between EU members, or is the deal under aegis of NATO?

Mr. V! Respect, sir.

Finance minister AND vice chancellor. An EXCELLENT interview. Thanks.

The real problems of our herds called politicians is that they don't know whom they are. That they are public not private agents. So, they should defend the general public including public companies, including public banks and all other publicly supply services, like health, education, electricity, water, transports, etc. But, in capitalist based world, the public governors/politicians oppositely defend firstly the private Vis a vis the public. It shows that even apparently they are public and receive public salary, but in reality they are private politicians work a small group and they live more from what receive from the private sector. Or in the best case, just corrupt public politician who receive public salaries but, throw abuse of power, receive bribes from the private minority sector.

I can't believe this is happening in Europe too.😱

Varoufakis is just a professor sitting in his ivory tower. He has no real solutions.

As he began his assessment, "Nothing is changed", because it's always NOW, only the perceptions flip from one side of the Right-Left paradox of the blame game.

Thanks Yanis. Your common good sense is an inspiration. Let's hope and keep working towards the change in system that's desperately needed before it's too late to mitigate the worst of the climate and environmental crisis. I think this is what it must have felt like living in the last decades of the decaying Roman empire.

How come there is no word about the role of NATO in the creation of the Syrian mayhem?

Yanis Rocks ✊

Who the Fakis takes this guy seriously?

Of course she has her 'pragmatism '. The austerity has allowed the German economy to prosper and invest in the green future like no other country apart from a few. And you cannot allow millions more people into EU - the one million Was already enough to swallow. It's exactly that pragmatism that allowed her to rule for that long and must Germans liked her for that.

As a Canadian I always held Europe above America as it's older and has a colorful history and I thought they would act independently from America and I was wrong.

Love Yanis.

It will be interesting to see how Germany survive this one.

Interesting

Bullseye 🎯 a year later! He knew what he was talking about. Well done, handsome.

Next to Dr. Wagenknecht he is Europe’s best left thinker (which means of course the best thinker period) 👍

Run 2024 here in States. We all vote for you...

I love this guy, he's a genius that says things as they are. What I don't forgive of him, is that he killed Nairobi in Money Heist.

There has always been an arms race on the seas, much more so than the lands.

It is international law saying refugee status is only applicable until the next save country. Otherwise people would travel across the world and use it to settle in the country of their choice... wait they actually do. Since 2015, more people applied for asylum in EU than people live in Slovakia... and significantly more people came than there are citizens of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia combined. Maybe 4 more years and we can populate Greece with them.

To understand Yanis' ideas is to understand Cuba and Venezuela's marxist demise.

Remember the Austerity fad was based on an erroneous publication by a well respected economist. You can't completely forget that at the time, it was thought to be good policy. That doesn't mean that the critics were wrong to be in opposition at the time, but there was reason to believe that austerity was a good idea at the time. It's not like they were being intentionally cruel or hoping to realize only the downsides of the policy. But this is an outcomes based evaluation so Merkel has to accept the judgement

Yanis has started to look like Valdemort in Harry Potter -could this be his next career move?

All such so called politicians, in Capitalist/Corporation economy, are just employees, docile recruited servers, for such corporates. So, they have no free vote, just fulfill the orders that down to them from their bosses/the big corporates, including the big banks. Policy is moral duty, only can and should be served by volunteers. Similar to the example of NGOs, Green Peace, frontierless doctors, etc. Policy neither profession nor should be paid, in money or salary. True honest service, only happens when such service be realized by volunteers.

This guy was good!

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Yikes. Bad news.

Thanks

16 years and then just somewhere in their mind this can't be called dictatorship years, just in Latin America.

Yanis

I remember the IMF squeezing the Greeks for loan repayments - 15 years ago? Creating havoc and suffering for Greece. How was that tragedy resolved? Or is it open ended? This is an interview from previous times. How would this interview be presented now, to include the Ukrainian/Russia War?

It means we now pay 2 euro per liter gasoline

Is it not true that the first millions of refugees who entered Western countries came with $; not so since then.

This is some ww1 type shit, the imperialist powers are fighting and trying to out maneuver each other. It’s gonna be a interesting decade💀

The change, that can possibly come in Germany, once Merkel is actually out of the Kanzleramt, is that the grip of the chancellors office on public media via their black list of Merkel critics who are not supposed to have a say in the public is going to end, possibly, and so Merkel's "softauthoritarianism" could give way again to a more mature and wide ranging discussion in the German public.

aaaand canada, canada is involved too

Chancellor Merkel's decision to invite all were capable of making the journey (and paying people smugglers), had a decisive impact on the Brexit Referendum. The footage of migrants stream across Europe was a gift to the Leave side of the Brexit Referendum. Their slogan, "Take Back Control" gained traction.

OMG!!

Wow, yanis looking deadly thin 😕😕

Money IS THE GOVERNMENT.

Thank You

Yanis is on another level 🔥

The political left has another key problem (which Varoufakis has talked about earlier) - they cant stop fighting and arguing amongst each other. At the same time the right movement is much better at making alliances and cooperating for common goals. Why is it so? Why cant the left side of politics put their differences aside and create these strong alliances that the right wing are doing? Even the environmental organizations are arguing against each other - and they are almost 100% agreeing.

You can't absorb you unemployed, so how can you absorb 1 million refugees? Who are also have different culture?

Yanis!

YEAH!!!!

We need more diversity or we'll still keep ppl of color, poor whites, minority & Hispanics poor Asian oppressed!!!

I do not think that Mr. Varoufakis is an expert on German politics, and clearly he holds grudge due to the austerity measures imposed on the Greek government. His opinions seem to be a classic beer-table rambling.

Best guy ever!!!!!!

Ich heise München!

Traditionally imperialist Turkey? Only Turkey? I think he's forgotten Greek history. And regarding the French deal, it's funny how it's always forgotten to mention that the US had pushed France to offer convential subs as opposed to nuclear powered ones and then swept in to provide nuclear subs themselves. Classic backstab and classic American.

We left are a trouble haha

Why did Greece need to be bailed out?

"Evil begets evil." "Shooting it, will only make it grow stronger." - The Fifth Element.

The actual capitalist/professional so called election democracy, of 51% wining over 49%, is arbitrary system of democracy. Since, the 49% legitimately can ask democracy for whom? For the 51% for the 49%? Why isn't it/can't be called dictatorship of the 51% over the 49%? Answer it in one way or another, can't be except subjective/arbitrary. Which means yes/true and no/false at the same time. This, proves, why consider policy as profession and pay for it is wrong and never generally leads to genuine/neutral policy. The policy neither profession nor payable financially, so the only genuine way for that service is by volunteers.

He sounds like Bernie Sanders discussing the Republicans, but in the US the "socialism for the bankers" and the harsh capitalism for working people is many degrees kinder to the bankers and harsher on the middle and working class.

Such capitalism/big corporates servers, so called politicians changing their policy from one day to another/even quicker than the light speed, from one extreme policy to the opposite, out of any logical reason. Only reason, is to defend the big corporates rule/dominance, taking in consideration the circumstances/population reactions, but within the only strategic goal of keep alive the capitalism. In America dominate the policy two big parties: Democratic/Center Left and Republican/Center Right. CENTER=CAPITALISM, is the common Victor between the two dominating parties which make them practically the same one/capitalist parties. Similar trick of two parties in one is. either faithfully/strategically applied in EU.

Greek Voldemort has a point

Yanis's previous book is a good read on the Greek crisis :) Very knowledgeable writer.

Yanis always has the pulse of reality with his stern voice, he understands all to well what has been the stink in "GREAT CHANGES" especially in the new SO CALLED German Government. 🌬🕯

Yanis is one of the greatest leaders of our time. If only men like him were in power right now. The world would be a better place to live in.

Super regret I couldnt come to drink Rakı with Yannis: I was a HOSTAGE and being TORTURED by psychopaths. Next time hes around Muğla, We shall drink Rakı (or uzo).

Merkel has such a good reputation !!! I don't understand why?? And yanis is right nothing much is changing.