Yanis Varoufakis: After 2025, Europe Is Changed Forever

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In this video, Economist and former Minister of Finance of Greece Yanis Varoufakis delivers a DiEM25 New Year message arguing that Europe’s post-2008 economic model has reached a breaking point, accelerating militarization, inequality, and political authoritarianism. He anchors the claim in three developments he frames as decisive in 2025 – Russia’s momentum in Ukraine, China’s advantage in the U.S. trade/tech confrontation, and a U.S.–EU tariff and investment arrangement he calls a strategic defeat for Europe – before outlining what he sees as the practical political response for 2026.

Dieses Video wurde von DiEM25 produziert und am 30. Dezember 2025 auf ihrem YouTube-Kanal veröffentlicht. Wir haben es ins Deutsche übersetzt und veröffentlichen es heute erneut, um die Meinungsbildung zu diesem Thema in Deutschland und darüber hinaus zu fördern.

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VIDEO: Yanis Varoufakis: After 2025, Europe Is Changed Forever

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ABOUT YANIS VAROUFAKIS

Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek politician, professor of economic theory at the University of Athens, former finance minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). He is also the author of several books on the European debt crisis, financial imbalances in the world, and game theory.