{"id":3323,"date":"2017-06-12T20:53:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:54","slug":"yanis-varoufakis-germany-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/yanis-varoufakis-germany-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"What role is Germany playing in the European Union and what is meant by &#8220;Multi-Speed Europe&#8221;? With Yanis Varoufakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>What role is Germany playing in the European Union and what is meant by &#8220;Multi-Speed Europe&#8221;? With Yanis Varoufakis<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this video founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/diem25.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democracy in Europe Movement 2025<\/a>, author &amp; former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, explains Germany&#8217;s role in the European Union and what we should take into account when we hear the term &#8220;multi-speed&#8221; Europe.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Germany&#8217;s Role in the EU &amp; Multi-Speed Europe<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yanis Varoufakis on Germany&#039;s Role in the European Union &amp; &quot;Multi-Speed&quot; Europe\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8vgyW-BB8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To view our entire video playlist with Yanis Varoufakis &amp; DiEM25, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhxITUni9OWfCYbsCcTSm98MhcLqR0wcn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here. <\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit journalism!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1283 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E-700x233.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Banner-Spende-Webseite_E.jpg 1418w\" alt=\"Banner Spende Webseite_E\" width=\"640\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>About Yanis Varoufakis &amp; DiEM25<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Varoufakis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3324 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Varoufakis-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0 argues are dividing the continent and fueling the rise of \u201cinternational nationalists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, author &#038; former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, explains Germany&#8217;s role in the European Union and what we should take into account when we hear the term &#8220;multi-speed&#8221; Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What role is Germany playing in the European Union and what is meant by &quot;Multi-Speed Europe&quot;? 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