As an Englishman living Spain, I notice that there is a quite a bit of cronyism/corruption at council level, but at national. level politicians are stamped on hard and being sent to prison for 10+ years for corruption. Meanwhile in England, the Govt. accidentally loses 3 billion pounds to their friends and donors during the pandemic but can't be bothered to get it back. But the UK doesn't do corruption, so we'll call it an oversight..
@@petekdemircioglu Theft from the supermarket is a reality and is sustainable if it does not exceed a certain percentage. But the criminal act still remains. Ethics is not a percentage.
Glad to hear that, because the Dutch are among the worst in Europe. The Netherlands has been for ages one the world´s worst pro tax doding and pro money laundering centers.
Yes I agree. Most every nation state is that way. It's exactly the same in New Zealand Olaf, we've been that way since we were a colony of Britain, and since 1984 and hard right economic-politics we're still a colony, but it's a privatised one owned by the banks, industrial ag, and the construction industry. Like europeans, we're like the unthinking herd with iron rings through our noses being led by the same sort of people that lead Europe. Yet we will own nothing and we will be happy! If people in the west ever wake up. there will be revolution.
I try to explain this to my dad all the time about corruption in America, but he never gets it. All he sees is "street corruption". The cop that asks for $20; the building inspector that wants some cheddar. The corruption in America is much more advanced. It's the lobbying, the tax rates, the courts ruling that all contracts result from equal bargaining power, etc.
How could there be corruption in america if the economical power *is* the only political power? Lobbying is not illegal. It's not corruption. It's just an open display about the way in which you live in an oligarchy where your president responds to companies and not to citizens.
The most obvious corruption in the US is that Bernie Sanders can't win a presidential election. Its painted as some sop to centrism but in reality only a stuffed corporate friendly suit will ever be allowed to become president. Anyone who might upset the systemic corruption of snouts in the trough US politics is shut out.
@@jmmh1313 it's corruption if a congress person can change their position on an issue based on who is donating do there campaign. Their decisions can be bought
I've always understood the fact that corruption in the European Union is on a much more sophisticated level than corruption in the Balkans for example. But the term cheap corruption and industrial scale corruption brings it home . Great explanation.
I can agree that there is high level corruption in northern countries but I find it hard to believe that in the south the corruption just disappears when you move up the ranks. What people have to consider is that things like the corruption index only measure PERCEPTION of corruption where high level will have almost no impact, so that can be an explanation to why you may see maps that give of a distorted picture. Still I think there is more corruption in the south and ex Soviet countries.
@@christopherstein2024 Im from the Balkans, Serbia(corrupt country by mainstream studies). The way I see it is: For lower levels Enough money=no corruption Lack of money=corruption For example, an average cop in Serbia doesn't have enough money to send both of his kids to a school trip so he accepts small bribes to make up for it, while in Germany cops can cover it with their salaries so they don't feel the temptation. For the upper levels Varoufakis is spot on, they are all corrupted. Western Europeans do it on a much larger scale they just label it as lobbying. The same thing goes for wars and war crimes. Every month we over here hear lectures from EU or US about war crimes we did in the 90. while at the same time they killed 500k children in the middle-east. It's all about the narratives and who is powerful enough to build and maintain them.
I am a dual Czech and Slovak citizen, living in Denmark, so I follow the politics of these 3 countries and I voted in every one of them (Czech and Slovak parliament / presidential elections), and in Denmark I voted in EU parliament elections due to being an EU citizen. I noticed a common pattern. The prime minister sits on the EU council meetings, votes for whatever EU law proposal, and then comes home and then starts hallucinating about the "Dictate from Brussels". It's a disgrace how the heads of government avoid responsibility for decisions they themselves are part of. I agree, let's livestream all EU council meetings. Afterall, it is the equivalent of the US senate, which also has public sessions. There is one problem though, all of the deals will be done in backrooms instead, and the council will be a show. But at least there will be a videotape of the prime ministers voting for a certain law, which the public will be able to criticize them for.
some things are voted for ..others not. do you remember to ever have been voting for parking tickets? its the same at the high level. EU is full of bureaucrats that never were voted into office, who engage in creating rules and regulations
@@hotdog9262 All the people you are talking about are employed as experts to try to form proposals for potential new laws, that are at some point voted on by the elected members of every single member country. I know exactly that line of argument that you are using and it has been debunked for several years. This is a very prevalent Brexit line that was proven completely wrong.
Sounds a lot like the UK, especially with the Conservative Party. Can remember them thundering against the EU Constitution/Lisbon Treaty insisting they would never sign it, and giving us a "cast-iron guarantee" we would get to vote on it if they get in. Well, Labour get booted and the Conservatives get in...and promptly sign it. No say given to us. Bit them in the arse, as had the British public been given a say on EU issues they may have felt listened to and less inclined to leave altogether. And Brexit infuriated the Conservatives' international donors, and is looking likely to kill off their party.
@@hotdog9262 he's still correct though, all the stuff that the EU decides os decided by the same people we have in our gocvernments, if the EU sucks, it's because our own politicans suck.
He's right about surveillance...if you are in public office your actions should be up for scrutiny. They want to watch us 24/7 walking down streets, monitoring our online activity while they lurk in the shadows doing as they wish.
Exactly what happened during the "fearsome illness" 4 years ago, few complained, most obeyed like sheep, those who imposed it were the first to make parties and waste taxpayer money on overpriced "health products"
In the southern countries we are aware of the corruption we have. The other countries are just in denial about the corruption they suffer, which allow them to feel superior
I think you're right about this,a nd it's that superior arrogance which could lead to a downfall. Look at the United States. Corruption is renamed to Lobbying. It is a country of misery because of this.
@@jamescpalmer The US is superior. They call the shots in NATO. Even Yanis said the European oligarchs want to keep the EU in corruption so they can keep selling stuff to the US market. Yea the US is a rotten mess, but still a supirior mess to the Europe.
Having lived in the U.K. for quite a while before moving back to Hungary actually made me realise the same. Here corruption is crude and obvious, while the the Brits do it in a sophisticated way. We play with dimes while those countries play with the world.
They give it a fancy name such as lobbying and wearing suits, it's an exclusive club where they shake hands and be professional about it. its indeed sophisticated.
So you are saying that in UK they have sofisticated corruption and in Hungary you have primitive corruption. I think another big difference is that in Hungary the politicans are thinking about their own people first.
Varoufakis has been spot on for years about the ills of the EU architecture and the dangers the international/banking system pose to democracy everywhere.
@davidkoh7097 Jannis Bitteropolis uses EU and Germany interchangeably knowing full well people won't notice the sight of hand. Works on Brits all the time. The diesels scandal was a German affair not an EU affair. The EU is far less corrupt than the UK where people have even been groomed into accepting Divine Right of Kings. . .
He certainly has touched upon good points. At the same time I feel he's at times also downplaying things, as here saying there is only 'low level' corruption in S. Europe. It's perhaps not always as sophisticated as in the North, but that's because they don't need to be sophisticated they can just take the money :D
Hah, this is interesting. It reminds me of when I lived in Asia I had the same thought. There was a system of bakshish paying for so many things and foreigners like me would call the country corrupt but I realised the UK is also corrupt but in Asia the corruption was available to everyone fairly and in the UK it's only available to the rich. Hahaha
Very profound. So true in South Africa I can bargain with a cop over a drunk driving charge and come to a agreement. In UK no chance but the upper classes do it everyday In the third world at least I have a fair chance
Wherever you go, there is corruption. The richter the country the larger the scale, but the lesser obvious......🙄 It has always been like that and I have no Idea, what we can really do about it. But in the last 2.000 years mankond at least got rid of autocracy and absolutism and even slavery in some parts of the world at least. Maybe one day we will also be rid of corruption😂
Roberto Saviano reckoned the most corrupt place in the world was England, as the shenanigans in the financial city of London alone dwarfed the graft in countries on the corrupt lists.
For whom indeed ... We are talking about corruptions of corporations, of legal entities, not of persons. Do you send the Deutsche Bank into jail? Do you send the London Stock Exchange into jail? It is much more straightforward to punish a single bribed policeman or a single politician.
I was always convinced this is the case, as I just cannot imagine that humans are somehow more moral in countries where there is MORE money in circulation. My guess was that western success was essentially having enough money so that people in power can grab some for themselves, while also having enough money for that bridge to be built. While in other places, the bridge will need to be of lesser quality, so that those with access to funds can still get their share.
Why can't you imagine that? In a very immoral country that was full of corruption, I wouldn't expect there to be much money at all. Who would be stupid enough to invest in such a country?! I would expect most foreign investment to occur in the most moral and least corrupt countries.
@@Monaleenian Oh really? According to your point, countries who have looted most nations in the world and waged wars around the globe are to labled a heaven of morality while countries in areas such as LatAm and Eurasia are by far immoral and then much more corrupted?
I am still convinced southern europe is more corrupt then the north. He spoke about germany for the majority of the video. Germany isnt northen europe, the nordic countries are northern europe.
Wow, that conclusion at the end, _coming from Yanis,_ is extremely significant. That's the first time I've heard him say anything like that, as another commenter alluded to. I hope he expands on that more soon.
@@philip88154 to lovingly dismantle it and build a system of care in its place...i would imagine! remember 'the only war the capitalists ever won was the war on the imagination'..David Graeber.. bless his beautiful heart!
@@zantecarroll4448 non-participation is a way of peaceful rejection of the current system; like a quiet boycott against the system; there are non-violent ways of dismantling wrong human structures, but it starts with each one of us
I used to disrespect Varouvakis when I was in highshool back in 2014/2015 because I didn't understand what was realy going on. Now I view him as an absolute hero of a gerneration! ❤
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Actually... Yeah East Europe is BAD! Few people I met from East that studied, worked and had stable jobs. They RUN at the conversation of a desk job for example!!! This is not exactly a No Corruption vs Lots of Corruption discussion... There is an automatic benefit and privilege from being in those Central-North European countries! And I bet Yanis knows what I'm talking about... Because he has been in that EU parliament... Some political people in my country testified how some European countries are treated... They made a fool out of Yanis for example! Going on votes and putting him out of the room??!? How exactly is that Democracy and Sovereignty?!? He also talked about other stuff that were SHOCKING. I remember his talk about meeting some German minister... He bluntly said that "Democracy is worth jack-sh*t". And this war between Russia-Ukraine... Those NATO people go out there preaching Democracy, Freedom, Capitalism,.... It's ALL A BIG FAT LIE. There's no democracy!!! It's the power of the Big and the Rich that want more land, more resources, more $$$, more slaves, etcetcetc. Or something along those lines... When Putin called/mentioned "Neo-Nazis"... Yup, he's not mistaken. It kind of is a Nazi regime!!! This time it has some differences from WW2 but the same principles are there - all power to Germany (or central Europe), other countries are basically forced labour and cannon fodder hubs, if you're not White you get scraps, if you're not in their political preference you don't matter, etcetcetc. It's that Supremacy BS alllll over again. And btw, Americans and English are in the mix too but it's like... Their 'dirty secret'. They say they're against those things but secretly they help and support those dogmas/regimes. Europe is fuc*ed for sure!!! It's over! This stuff caused a lotttttt of damage... And actually, in my opinion, a lot of death and human suffering!!! It's not only in Ukraine, they're getting the WORST of it but... We already have a generation that is contemplating living on the streets or migrating to other countries. The development Indexes are receding to 1970-1980 levels. Europe is being attacked on multiple fronts... The Americans want to tear it down, the Russians want to tear it down, the Middle Easterns want to tear it down,.... Even europeans want to tear it down! Because we also are being sabotaged from the inside... Politicians made a disaster on the whole project. Can't run a Federation where some people get the end of the stick and others just sit on the couch
@@Trip4man I m from eastern europe and all the people I know work hard. They even go abroad to western countries so they can win good money for their work. If you search how many hours/weak people in Europe work you ll see that westerners work waaayy less in comparison to eastern europeans. Yes, the job they do is not as valued as what westernes work, but that still doesn t make them lazy. The truth is that southern and eastern europe weren t blessed by the money from colonialism and US-money after the WW2, not to mention communism that was broght by Russia post WW2. All these factors are to blame for the disparities between West and East, not laziness or corruption. The west is far more corrupt, they did it for centuries before us, but now they ve reached a level that it makes it very hard for the ordinary people to feel it first hand, in comparison to eastern europe where the “small corruption” is easily percived.
@@anonimus13ful Welllll by your logic then... Italy, Spain and Portugal should be filthy rich! Because Italy owned allll South Europe (Roman Empire). Spain has some part of South America as well as Portugal... Tell me... Which colonies do Germany, Norway, Denmark or Sweden have??? I actually heard one American saying that they got 1 week of vacation TOTAL... We have 1 month of vacations here! So yeah... Don't throw me those stereotypical stories man! They are rich because the system benefits and grants them privileges! There is some sort of Global Governance running in the background! They made sure that the populations from nice countries get Zero and the populations from nasty countries get Everything. And if you travel... Well you can see that people around the world face the SAME thing. Now you try to explain how a person on the other side of the world faces the same thing as you... Just by coincidence?!?? Because it can't be coincidence. You see... You're only deducing from what you see/perceive. There is something running in the background that we can't see or perceive! You can call it "Global Government", "Shadow Government" if you will because yeah... It sort of fits in that category
@@Trip4man That was 2000 years ago not 50-150 years ago(Italy). And they still live better than all eastern and southern europe. All countries you named had colonies except sweden and norway. Norway has a lot of oil and sweden exploits wood from third world countries. Both this countries have more billionares/1000 people than the USA!!! And about germany, think how many money did the USA invest in them after WW2!! Did poland,romania or hungary get something after the great war? No, they didn t. The people raised themselves out of pobertry, without external help.
Yanis is terrific in that he's got real power and can say this. He knows how to explain this stuff in such simple terms for the public, it is amazing that he doesn't have a vast majority vote. The public has to be informed better and be willing to accept this real, incredible reality of information about the real world we live in. The general public is programmed to focus on low-level corruption so as to let the elite in society go free with their high level, advanced systems of globalized corruption.
the guy namedrop a few bad apples and come to the conclusion the north is just as bad as the south. the guy is a bit ridiculous and without a doubt highly biased
@@prikipriki30 The corruption that takes place in Greece, and the corruption that takes place in Brussels cannot be compared a cop asking for a cup of coffee to get rid of a speeding ticket, and then massive military contracts from tax money being usurped are not equitable.
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The public mostly has no idea what is going on within the European council or parliament, we are too busy trying to survive! There is no oversight to protect the people!
Nothing changes inappropriate behaviour faster than the light of public scrutiny Our economic system must be completely transparent and visible. Visibility is another word for truth.
Thank you for talking about this. Corruption has many forms, they all should be revealed and stopped. Part of the problem is that most of us humans, even those who think they understand mathematics, really don't react much differently regardless if we are talking one million vs one billion. Obviously, there is one thousand times difference, but most of us, most of times, act or react as if it was almost the same amount. Transparency is the best way forward. However, decency, courage and servitude, are not the characteristics of most politicians, add to that the tendency of self graduating of most political groups about insignificant or imaginary victories and you will have a barely useful and often a time wasting yet costly almost a parasitic entity. In regards to Qatari lobbyists: You just talked about big money corruption vs small money corporation. Think the same way regarding the big American influence vs small Qatari influence. The question is why the Qatari one upsets you most? The problem is that people chose the representatives often because they dislike the other side more. Unfortunately most of these candidates have always thought of betraying the people they represent, for the right amount of money, long before they became elected officials or politicians. The whole thing was/is nothing but an opportunity to satisfy their own selfish needs, serving the people and standing for this or that was/is not their main focus their goal was just to do a good dance/show for the galleries in order to have some authority and get richer.
the funny thing is i think a lot of people sense this and yet have been conditioned to accept it ...they cant imagine anything else...i always come back to david graebers words.,,the only war the capitalists ever managed to win was the war against the imagination...which is why the oligarchs and corporations control the arts as much as they can .. the most insidious and fucking infuriating type of propaganda ...they fund the arts that tell the story that makes it appear as if no other system than the current system could be ...any other system ..or god forbid a free and caring system , would obviously immediately plunge us all into chaos and terror ..this is the subtext of so many films and television and books and ofcourse academia mirrors and feeds this ...only the maveriks tell another more hopeful story...which is why Yanis's book Another Now is so vital right now we all know the value of the artists who awakened us music such as Pink Floyd, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and writers, Orwell, Huxley, Chomsky, artists like Van Gogh who had the impudence to love nature and farmers and askew the bourgeois aesthetics of the day ..who loved a sunflower more than a rose..i believe we need a revolution of our imagination and we need a carnival of brave artists...now i might be a little biased because i confess i'm a painter ❤️❤️
Im from iceland but lived in a few countries cz, dk, usa, swed, germa, and i remember that after 2008 when i finished highschool i thoght the conditions set on the helenic republic was a joke, but in 2015 i moved to cyprus for 3 years when i got back to iceland and i was frequently asked about how it was to live in such a corrupt place and i would tell them i prefered the corruption there than the one in iceland since in cyprus its alot easyer and realy dosnt cost too much if you have to greese the wheels a bit to get things moving while here the only way is to be born right or know some one born right, then you can get what ever you want. And we clame to be one of the least corrupt, the only thing is that corruption here is reserved for a few who then take it to industrial level like you say They make fun of goverment workers in the south while here when i went to uni of iceland my maths prof did not want to teach me because i went to the wrong highschool, mr where the kids of elite tend to go, when i complaind to the counselor, the counselor asked me what i thoght he should do and i said i dont know i would fire him for not opholding his contract they laughed and stood up and indicated for me to go and said you will understand this when you are older. Years later a new possition was being formed in the uni and it was like talord for a man i know he just finished heading a large 10m eur reaserch project and is older and thoght to slow down and found this to be perfect, so he aplied, the uni responded that there were two candidate selections ahead of him 2 wimen one compleatly fresh from her doc the other relatively fresh with 7 citations to her work, he has more than 2000 after the other 2 backed out after their interviews instead of interviewing him they desided not to form the new possition, here you cant even get a possition you deserve if you are not born right, in this case the only reason to stop when it came to him is he had experience and was critically aclaimd but had a p and not a v. Its not the best example there are the fishing families and latest fishfarming scandals the gov putting s minister who owns the biggest property owning group with a few friends over solving the rent crisis, banks and gov and old money pretending to be honest but have a nice sirculation between them. Fx that icelandic bankers got punished is a fabrication, triels were announced but nothing happened exept the priminister got a parrol sentence
My Dad always said "the lower the level of Government, the higher the level of corruption". He is of course *WRONG.* The higher the level of Government, the greater the conspiracies there are, the lesser the transparency, the greater the maldistribution of funds and the greater it is all accepted by polite society.
Thank you Yanis for shining a torch on a totally corrupt European union in Brussels and the western democratic system as a whole. It's actually very disturbing and disheartening. And yes why aren't the European meetings in Brussels broadcast how interesting actually untill you raised this subject it never crossed my mind and of course it's so obviously corrupt. I agree we have to find a way to stick together and have the voices of everyday ordinary citizens of Europe and the world VALUED and RESPECTED
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I always say that. I work in the west in the same area where the vd's are and I see what they are doing, the system is made so that you cannot get into their narrow circle of people through work. you get there only by birth and if you attend private schools and universities.
I fully agree. But then, low-level corruption is more arbitrary and unpredictable at the level of the citizen. And therefore generates the "corruption" feeling and reaction. What you describe with those German companies and banks is state-level immorality, which ceases to be "corruption" and becomes state policy. It's beyond corruption, it's German hubris at its best, now in the economic field (not military, yet).
Wow indeed, this is also for me the first time I hear Yanis drawing the conclusion he draws at the end. I would also like to hear more about that. Why does he think that reform is not a viable option anymore?
I don't know what he's say but it seems to me that reforms usually make things worse. They give very corrupt politicians an opportunity to add another layer of corruption to the system and the less corrupt politicians play let's make a deal so long as they get their cut. For reform to work, you have to have a substantial number of not corrupt politicians and nobody has that anywhere.
Genuine question. Where are the example from the actual northern Europe? All examples are from Germany. For us, in the nordic countries, he is pointing his finger at us, then talk about Siemens, Volkswagen and Audi.
@@30yoboomer To a Norseman it might seem like Germany and Sweden are very different, but overall, you can find a lot of people in the world think Germany, Britain, Netherlands, Scandinavia etc are quite akin to each other in the manner of general sense. Germany, technically is Central Europe with France and possibly even Poland But general consensus is that Southern Europe is quite different than North.
@@subutaynoyan5372 Sure, but this was regarding his claims about corruption. So I think its a valid question if he is talking exclusively about Germany, or if it applies to any other country aswell? Because it seems like he is. Isnt it more reasonable to just say Germany? Germany is basically the opposite of the Nordic states in that the states holds his hand around the german industry, while if a large company in Sweden cant compete, the state will let it fall. It is things like this that makes people not stand behind Varoufakis. People dont want to hear their countries being trashtalked, especially when its false.
Spot on…..deception’s propaganda and discharging responsabilities on others is historically always been the best way to sell a narrative and allowing stereotypes to grow. Hard to accept that corruption is everywhere,when it’s so simple to say that it’s somebody else issue
On my travels to greece (rather long ago) many houses had unfinished to floors with some concrete pillars and iron bars on it. These "unfinished" buildings stayed in this conditions for years or ever because "unfinished" houses had to pay less taxes than finished ones.
We know that no country is perfect but the Greeks have learned too well, to play victim. They deceive themselves pretending they are the same of the Plato and Aristoteles time, when obviously they are not.
Corruption is a global institution driven by greedy societies. It is indeed easier to spot In countries with lower levels of industrialisation, however, it is equally present in countries with high levels of industrialisation. Nations such as the UK are just better at hiding it due to longer periods of practice, deeper control systems and manipulated public perception.
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@@carloandreaguilar5916 Your level of ignorance is insane. That’s because Nordic countries are not only the biggest oil sellers, but also fully industrialized something only they have the privilege of. Which allows them to pay their citizens off massively.
@@carloandreaguilar5916 I live in Sweden and there's more and more corruption here. For the past 30 years the gov has been selling public services to the private sector to the obvious detriment of the population. A ton of politicians have ties to companies that run previous public services.
In many of these cases for the executives no jail? Only fines for the corporation? If you steal a bag with 500 euros in the street you could face easily 3 years. For these facts regarding international bribery, that can steal billions from entire countries no jail in the EU?
I remember in eighties of last century, how egoism and greed were started being celebrated everywhere. Even there was a parfum named "egoist". So we have it now.- all the results. Any new ideas?
All politicians are underestimated in Greece because they all serve the same destroying agenda. As for Yannis, he has many people who value his knowledge here.
Mr Varoufakis! I love to hear your truthful and extremely honest words. Too many politicians, bankers etc, are soulless, but, they have to live with their lies and corrution, I don´t!
I am also fed up by these anti-corruptian accusations directed at the so-called weaker countries. You are very right about everything you say. In higher places they preach to us plebs, that we should behave well. But in the higher places they lie and steal as if there is no tomorrow. Yannis, thank you for your honesty and for defending what should be defended.!
Whine about your own weakness and blame everyone else is the moral core of corruption. It means that I can do what ever I want as long as I can point the finger to somewhere else. Turkish or arab genes in your ancestry?
@@karlscher5170 you turn everything upside down . As if I don't know what I am writing about, verdammt nochmal. Die Hölle hat platz genug für alle, including you.
NORTHERN EUROPE IS ROTTEN TO THE BONE!! Playing beautiful weather but ROTTEN AS HELL!! I worked for the police and for the justice department, and maybe, one day l'll write a book and bring the shit out!!
I will not pay bribes I will not seek bribes I will work with others to campaign against corruption I will speak out against corruption and report on abuse I will only support candidates for public office who say no to corruption and demonstrate transparency, integrity and accountability -- Transparency International, The Declaration Against Corruption
Low level corruption has way more influence on everyday people’s lives than high level corruption. If I can not get my building permit because I won’t bribe the local council, that can ruin my life. High level corruption has zero impact on my day to day life.
You sure about that? Here, just one example. Right now electricity bills in western Europe are skyrocketing because of self-destructive sanctions against Russia that EU has forced upon it's member states. Guess who's gonna suffer the most because of that? An ordinary citizen
@@miha1999grobar sorry, so what's your proposition - bending over and spreading buttcheeks before Putin? continuing to pay him to bomb Ukrainian cities? there are a million different things that are a consequence of corruption, but this isn't one. This is a consequence of Putin's actions. So would you rather suggest that a whole country is handed to a tyrant on a golden plate so that some cowards pay less for their electricity?
They say the USA is loved so much for business because our wonderful legal system that is trusted by all. Utter shit. It's loved by business because its stacked with judges by oligarchs. Big business owns those judges. It's not that the legal system in the USA is trusted. It's that big business essentially owns our legal system.
We need more direct democracy on where our money goes into! We also need independent press to inform the ppl, not to try to educate them like it is atm.
Mistaken janis. True, but reason for lack of high level tech coruption in south eu is…. Lack of high level teck corporations in south eu. And reason for lack of those? Small level corruption prevents build up of high level coompanies:) so “low” level corruption is so harmful that prevents any company to actually become huge global tech. Touche janis!
Another reason for lack of those? High tech level of corruption begets more high tech level of corruption with state help so no startup can compete. As an example. The FATF (global money laundering task force) is currently going around the world and forcing all sorts of banking regulations on poor countries with threats of sanctions. Except, the same sanctions are not applied to Europe or the US. Corrupt laundered money arrives in Switzerland and London without problem.
I remember during the Brexit Referendum, Yanis was totally against the UK leaving the EU and said we can only reform the EU from within. Well this is certainly a significant turnaround on Yanis’ part. I guess the EU has gone past the stage of reform and I look forward to hearing more from Yanis.
You definitely didn't understand what he was saying that time and why. He was against this EU setup before Brexit. Check other his interviews to understand why he was supporting Britain to stay in the EU.
Is it? I am sad to see how he lumps northern Europe together. We dont like Germany at all in Scandinavia, partly for their corruption. The car industry is in the bed with the state, their politicians end up in Russian gas companies, EU getting more and more influence, more and more tax transfers. Instead we are lumped together with this. He should point his finger at Germany, or start giving examples from Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
It's the first time I heard Yannis say the EU can not be reformed anymore. It's a right step but still no revolutionary idea and nowill to fight, just "resist"
he said "organised resistance", not "just resist" and there is a difference, also in current reality, even that "just resist" would be a miracle, the majority of people are just placid passive consumers? well trained since kindy to be so and unless, like it was in Russian Empire in 1917, people have nothing to lose there be no fighting, no revolution and that's exactly why people in power have all the welfare and charities running so "the crumbs trickle down to peasants" they are not stupid
Corporations, the digital financial complex, the military complex, Big Pharma, technocrats rule us. A Corporatocracy. An unholy alliance of corporations and politics. De facto fascism without brown shirts and jackboots and a little man with a moustache at the helm. The oppressors of today present themselves as the good guys, those who want to save the planet.
