Perspectives of Democracy & the German election | Yanis Varoufakis
In this video, former finance minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, Yanis Varoufakis, provides his perspective on democracy and how his movement practices it internally. In addition Varoufakis talks about the context under which the European Union was formed and also surfaces concrete examples from the current period in how the EU employs double standards when applying rules and regulations towards its member states.
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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 fuelling the rise of “international nationalists“.
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[…] Dieses Video-Interview ist der sechste Teil der Serie Perspektiven der Demokratie: Herausforderungen und Potentiale, ein gemeinsames Projekt von acTVism Munich und Mehr Demokratie e.V.. Yanis Varoufakis, Ex-Finanzminister Griechenlands und Gründer von DIEM25, spricht über sein Demokratie-Verständnis, die Rolle der Demokratie in der EU sowie der Ökonomie als oberstes Leitprinzip und den ungleichen Prinzipien, die Deutschland für sich beansprucht und an andere anlegt. […]