{"id":6170,"date":"2020-03-16T19:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:48:44","slug":"yanis-varoufakis-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/opinions\/yanis-varoufakis-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanis Varoufakis: &#8220;The Coronavirus is going to accelerate the post 2008 Crisis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Yanis Varoufakis: &#8220;The Coronavirus is going to accelerate the post 2008 Crisis&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>To read the transcript of this video, please click here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Yanis-Varoufakis_-_The-Coronavirus-is-going-to-accelerate-the-post-2008-Crisis_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yanis Varoufakis: &#8220;The Coronavirus is going to accelerate the post 2008 Crisis&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Yanis Varoufakis on the economic and political impact of the coronavirus<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yanis Varoufakis: &quot;The Coronavirus is going to accelerate the post 2008 Crisis&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qIbv99NLZmw?start=37&#038;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 watch more of our videos with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT YANIS VAROUFAKIS &amp; DiEM25<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3911 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400-150x150.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ERvr6Wd_400x400.jpg 400w\" alt=\"Yanis Varoufakis &amp; DiEM25\" width=\"101\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>Yanis Varoufakis<\/strong>\u00a0is 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). 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