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Yanis Varoufakis: “The Coronavirus is going to accelerate the post 2008 Crisis”

19. March 2020

Yanis Varoufakis: “The Coronavirus is going to accelerate the post 2008 Crisis”


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In this video the economist and co-founder of DiEM25 Yanis Varoufakis, examines the socio-economic implications of the Coronavirus. This video was originally produced by DiEM25 and republished by acTVism Munich in order to create awareness on this issue.

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VIDEO: Yanis Varoufakis on the economic and political impact of the coronavirus


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ABOUT YANIS VAROUFAKIS & DiEM25

Yanis Varoufakis & DiEM25

Yanis Varoufakis is a professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens, former finance minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). Varoufakis is also the author of several books on the European debt crisis, the financial imbalance in the world and game theory.
DiEM25 is a pan-European, cross-border movement of democrats that is focused on addressing the economic and social problems faced by Europe today. It provides an alternative to austerity policies that it  argues are dividing the continent and fueling the rise of “international nationalists“.

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