Yanis Varoufakis in Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs on the Six Global Crises Confronting Humanity

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On April 22, 2025, world-renowned economists Jeffrey D. Sachs and Yanis Varoufakis discussed the escalating trade and class wars, the increasingly harsh Cold War with China, the war in Ukraine, Israel’s attack on Palestine, the rapidly advancing climate crisis, and, above all, concrete solutions to all these problems. Jeffrey Sachs and Yanis Varoufakis worked together a decade ago to prevent Europe from harming itself by crushing Greece. This livestreamed conversation is organised by DiEM25 while also being transmitted live across China through the network of the China Academy.

This video was produced by DiEM25 and published on their YouTube channel on the 22nd of April, 2025. We have translated it into German and are republishing it today to help build opinion on this issue in Germany and beyond.

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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.

ABOUT JEFFREY D. SACHS

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, and Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University. He has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocat under Secretary General António Guterres. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Sachs has received 41 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia. His most recent books are The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020) and Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).