“common blueprint for an International New Deal, a progressive New Bretton Woods”
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Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing European political alliance he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he served as Minister of Finance in the government of Alexis Tsipras in 2015, during the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis, where he b…
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Born 24 March 1961 · Q40688
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2026· 3 entries
La Izquierda Diario: La distopía regresiva de Yanis Varoufakis: el Tecnofeudalismo
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Yahoo: Yanis Varoufakis to stand trial after admitting ecstasy use nearly 40 years ago
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2025· 1 entry
Benzinga.com: 'Crypto Is Macroeconomically Insignificant': Yanis Varoufakis In 2023: Why The 2023 Warnings Still Resonate In 2025
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2019· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Hellenic Parliament (2019–2023).
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2018· 1 entry
Varoufakis founded MeRA25, the Greek wing of DiEM25, and later served in the Hellenic Parliament from 2019 to 2023
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2016· 2 entries
The Real News Network: Yanis Varoufakis on the Need for the Democratization of Europe
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“an attrition war between a reasonably numerate villain (the IMF) and a chronic procrastinator (Berlin)”
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2015· 4 entries
Voted against the third Greek bailout package in parliament and declined to run again with Syriza
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Career landmark: member of the Hellenic Parliament (2015–2015).
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Career landmark: Minister of Finance of Greece (2015–2015).
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During the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis, where he became internationally known for opposing EU-imposed austerity measures
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2012· 1 entry
Varoufakis joined Valve as economist-in-residence, researching the virtual economy of the gaming platform Steam
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2001· 2 entries
“While bringing about radical change is never easy, it is now abundantly clear that everything could be different. There is no longer any reason why we should accept things as they are.”
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“Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.”
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2000· 1 entry
Varoufakis returned to Greece and joined the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as Associate Professor of Economic Theory, becoming a full professor in 2005
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1988· 1 entry
And joined the University of Sydney, where he taught as a senior lecturer in economics until 2000
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1987· 1 entry
With a dissertation titled On Optimization and Strikes under the supervision of Monojit Chatterji
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1981· 1 entry
Varoufakis moved to the University of Birmingham, where he completed an MSc in mathematical statistics in 1982
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1978· 1 entry
His parents considered the political climate in Greece too unstable for him to continue his education there, so he moved to the United Kingdom
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1961· 2 entries
Born 1961-03-24.
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“s newly introduced Meta project. In an October 2022 interview, Varoufakis stated that the U.S. wants to keep the Russo-Ukrainian War going, as it serves American interests. For the war to end, he proposed that the opposing sides should come to an agreement, that will include the withdrawal of the Russian troops to their pre-24 February bases, a commitment from the U.S. that Ukraine will not enter NATO, mutual guarantees of Ukraine”
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1950· 1 entry
Georgios Varoufakis completed his studies in metallurgy and chemical engineering and later worked for Halyvourgiki, eventually becoming chairman of its board in 2003
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1946· 1 entry
To study chemistry at the University of Athens
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