Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda

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  • čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
  • What happened in Greece during the crisis? And what happens when you take on the establishment?
    In this extensive interview, former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis, talks about his new book Adults In The Room - My battle with Europe's deep establishment.
    Interview by Katrine Marçal

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  • @grahambird3112
    @grahambird3112 Před 6 lety +309

    The Man is a Gladiator ... he knows his stuff like no one else does ... Bravo !

    • @JohnGeometresMaximos
      @JohnGeometresMaximos Před 5 lety +2

      yaNis is just another opportunist.
      Don't be stupid, and don't be fooled and swayed by good orators.

    • @captkirk8974
      @captkirk8974 Před 5 lety +2

      I AGREE, HES ALRITE

    • @margaretcundall2653
      @margaretcundall2653 Před 5 lety +4

      @@JohnGeometresMaximos PROVE IT!

    • @CjJohns1776
      @CjJohns1776 Před 5 lety +6

      @@JohnGeometresMaximosare you one of many PAID DIS-INFORMATION TROLLS? (yes folks.Its also fact the leftists employ media & internet trolls to discredit all who shine a light on their many agendas) Also, these "trolls" always use multiple accounts/screen names to appear as tho they have more support when discrediting others.

    • @leefowler3240
      @leefowler3240 Před 5 lety +4

      He is a scholar of the highest order.

  • @jasonnolan9697
    @jasonnolan9697 Před 6 lety +2332

    "I believe banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies" . - Thomas Jefferson.

    • @beaubarri
      @beaubarri Před 6 lety +162

      "Give me control of a country's money supply, and I care not who makes their laws", Amschel Rothschild.
      "Not only are the banks too big to fail, but they are also too big to prosecute", Eric Holder USA Attorney General addressing Congress April 2013.
      I wish more people would gen up on Central Banking and the creation of money out of thin air by the private banks. Unfortunately, when one mentions it eyes just glaze over and go blank.

    • @guppy0112
      @guppy0112 Před 6 lety +14

      beaubarri - sorry, but nobody controls the country's money! I mean, nobody controls mine! Oh, and by the way, they got prosecuted left, right and centre- last time I checked! They got hit by massive fines, got sued, and a few bankers even got jailed!
      Strangely enough, no politicians went to jail/got sued/ got fined etc. They were the ones who interfered with the banks; bullying them into making loans they would never have made in the past! All to get more votes, and stay in power!

    • @cardinalblack5964
      @cardinalblack5964 Před 6 lety +24

      If you know a really good hacker, a really good and discreet one, evaluate your country's cash-flow. You'll be blown off by what you unearth. Just saying...

    • @tonycostanzo383
      @tonycostanzo383 Před 5 lety +17

      THE BANK INSTITUTION HAS BEEN INFILTRATED , BY THE JESUITS AND OF COURSE THE FREEMASONS , WHO THE JESUITS CONTROL

    • @dingojerk
      @dingojerk Před 5 lety +10

      honestly i think guys like varufakis are sociopaths.....what shouldve eu done? not bail out every single bank and let them fail and then what we would all just figure it out next day when you have to buy food ect5.....these lunatics want to see the world burn just so they can have their imaginary utopia.
      and yea, he is a leftist, he bitches about austerity, when the reason the crisis happend is exactly because of banks giving money to people they shouldnt have, and this lunatic s proposing even more of the thing that led to it to begin with
      also yea, interesting how all greeks are the good guys and eu are the bad guys because austerity

  • @waxman4207
    @waxman4207 Před 4 lety +446

    "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank...give a man a bank and he can rob the world"

    • @annacrowley7426
      @annacrowley7426 Před 3 lety +5

      Wow! What a statement, (banks and world). Soo true. Thank you.

    • @dimitriosfromgreece4227
      @dimitriosfromgreece4227 Před 3 lety +2

      LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😁😁😁

    • @samwariso
      @samwariso Před 3 lety +4

      You do not have to wonder why the country that controls the World Bank, IMF, and the SWIFT does not want reform of these organisations.

    • @thedog3823
      @thedog3823 Před 3 lety +3

      @Wasssup Dawwwg and he never paid his gas bill

    • @pierren___
      @pierren___ Před 3 lety +1

      Who are the bankers?

  • @conordorrian1652
    @conordorrian1652 Před 3 lety +489

    As an ordinary person, this man is someone I will always hold in esteem mainly because of two points: He shows no signs of self interest and more importantly he admits that he made mistakes. To me that's the real sign of a person who can be held in trust, a very dangerous thing in the modern world. There's not enough of people like him in power.

    • @dhsumana407
      @dhsumana407 Před 3 lety +8

      Listened to this man speak for the first time this morning . The ring of truth about the interview . Thanks and appreciation to all involved . As always more to do to respond appropriately .

    • @DavidA-ps1qr
      @DavidA-ps1qr Před 3 lety +6

      But would you buy a second hand car from him?

    • @damnyourpasswords
      @damnyourpasswords Před 3 lety +17

      Sorry he fooled you. ask the people he destroyed. Also, he makes some millions invited to speak about Marxism covered in Economical theories, and also he has never admitted any mistake to Greeks - he is in the Parliament and promotes his policy, he is here today and never did he admited ANY mistake, I am here everyday and watch all news, all newspapers, all tv news every day.

    • @DavidA-ps1qr
      @DavidA-ps1qr Před 3 lety +4

      @@damnyourpasswords Well said!

    • @knightheaven8992
      @knightheaven8992 Před 3 lety +5

      @@damnyourpasswords Yep he is also very naive, and believes Marxism is the answer. I like his personality and charisma, but he is just wrong on the solutions for lots of our problems today.

  • @fjack1588
    @fjack1588 Před 5 lety +359

    Wow! A breath of fresh air, hard to believe he was really in government, he is so genuine.

    • @gladyssellar6408
      @gladyssellar6408 Před 4 lety +8

      Lobogris the country was lucky in a way he was in government at the time

    • @bubbaole9036
      @bubbaole9036 Před 4 lety +9

      Once they realized he had a brain, what happened? Of course they could not understand him because they are imbeciles.

    • @panayiotisyannopoulos2668
      @panayiotisyannopoulos2668 Před 4 lety +1

      Bubba Ole alas... he elevated himself as a “prophet after the happenings”.
      He is an outdated leftish, only recently he was saying we have no right to stop the immigrants and wanted to open the borders for them to pass to Europe.

    • @JohnGeometresMaximos
      @JohnGeometresMaximos Před 3 lety +1

      You mean a breath of a stale fart.

    • @funkyfiss
      @funkyfiss Před 3 lety +2

      They went after him like harpies as soon as they realised he was a threat to their plan. Hit piece after hit piece of lies to vilify him until he quit.

  • @trespire
    @trespire Před 6 lety +372

    Professor Varoufakis speaks in "clear talk", keeps things simple & says what he means.
    He is no politician.
    I like him.

    • @spykerbotdotcom
      @spykerbotdotcom Před 5 lety +9

      Not sure you are correct. However, I do think, if he is a politician, he is an honest one that tells and reveals the truth. We need more people like him in the forefront of society.

    • @Sandwich13455
      @Sandwich13455 Před 5 lety +6

      He was a Greek politician, no?

    • @woodstockxx
      @woodstockxx Před 5 lety +6

      He is exactly what any & all politicians should be..unlike the bunch of pretend puppets that we currently & very stupidly allow to run our country & trust with our lives

    • @jojolafrite90
      @jojolafrite90 Před 5 lety +6

      Because he wants people to understand. Very didactic.

    • @epimetheus9053
      @epimetheus9053 Před 4 lety +2

      this shill does exactly what politicians do, talks half truths and votes exactly the opposite than that what would benefit the people

  • @simonlloyd7557
    @simonlloyd7557 Před 3 lety +47

    Apropos of nothing, I just wanted to say how impressed I am as an Englishman, that sheer quality of non native English speaking in this interview. Both speak to a native level, and the Swedish interviewer almost sounds English.

  • @zerowski
    @zerowski Před 4 lety +288

    Every European needs to listen to this man.

    • @ihatefrogs4390
      @ihatefrogs4390 Před 3 lety +13

      hi, not just european, canadians and americans , should listen to this man..

    • @t.r.l.4377
      @t.r.l.4377 Před rokem +5

      We in germoney are not in control of our politics and our politicans!

    • @kwakkers68
      @kwakkers68 Před rokem

      @@t.r.l.4377 None of us are. Never have been.
      + Beware the Private Sector running our elections.

  • @pauloconnor5483
    @pauloconnor5483 Před 6 lety +1470

    His command of English is incredible. I don't mean just for a non-English native speaker, I mean for anyone. His ability with the language is far better than most well educated native English speakers.

    • @missasinenomine
      @missasinenomine Před 5 lety +63

      Greeks are very good at European languages. They all come from Greek.

    • @andrewharper1609
      @andrewharper1609 Před 5 lety +14

      I think he may have spent some time living in the UK.

    • @zarni000
      @zarni000 Před 5 lety +26

      he spent a lot of time there and in Australia - actually half of his life. moved to uk in 1978. so nothing surprising at all. he is australian citizen too. surprising that his accent is so thick actually given all the time he spent there.

    • @keenae
      @keenae Před 5 lety +36

      As we say in Ireland “ no ordinary eeejit “

    • @moniquevanhooreweder6456
      @moniquevanhooreweder6456 Před 5 lety +9

      Do you mean that most English are not really experts in economy?

  • @RobWhittlestone
    @RobWhittlestone Před 5 lety +111

    Professor Yanis Varoufakis is a towering talent and one of my favourite people on the world stage. Lucid, intelligent, truthful, realistic how I wish more were like him.
    Katrine Marçal carries out an excellent interview. She really did her homework and it shows. Excellent video.

    • @stephengirling7859
      @stephengirling7859 Před rokem +1

      You are correct when you say "the world stage". Actors, all of them.

    • @JamieHumeCreative
      @JamieHumeCreative Před rokem

      ..with really, really poor judgment and a lack of empathy.

    • @damnyourpasswords
      @damnyourpasswords Před 11 měsíci

      I am sorry for you. Hope you find help, or get him as a minister. then you will escape this

  • @deplorabled1695
    @deplorabled1695 Před 4 lety +177

    This bloke's IQ, communication, general grasp of the actual and ability to talk sensibly with feeling without rancour or emotion is mind-blowing. He just trots out a metaphor about Macbeth as if he was discussing the weather.

    • @stellaboulton9531
      @stellaboulton9531 Před 3 lety +3

      INDEED!!

    • @tuckercarlsonrules4972
      @tuckercarlsonrules4972 Před 3 lety

      Economists are very smart! I recommend listening to "Basic economics" on youtube and you may understand why.

    • @cynthiastogden7000
      @cynthiastogden7000 Před 3 lety +4

      Truly brilliant. Yet we still have idiots in charge and not guys like this.

    • @Aeonized
      @Aeonized Před 2 lety +1

      Knowing macbeth etc doesn't imply your IQ is especially high, it means you're a studied person, an intellectual and that you don't possess low IQ at least.

    • @genovayork2468
      @genovayork2468 Před 2 lety

      @@Aeonized Being an intellectual is more important than having a high IQ. Having a high IQ facilitates education, but the ultimate goal is being an intellectual. It's common sense a very well read 90 IQ person is better than a lazy, potentially burnt out 150 IQ one who read 10 books in his life.

  • @rick4electric
    @rick4electric Před 3 lety +89

    Genius at work! Its wonderful to watch a clear thinking, intelligent AND good man explain how governments really "work"!

  • @cinemaartsgroup
    @cinemaartsgroup Před 5 lety +282

    This should be seen by all Europeans!

    • @adrianaslund8605
      @adrianaslund8605 Před 3 lety +2

      America(the roman empire to our greece) should too.

  • @abuseofmainstreammediacanh5713

    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell

    • @indiana146
      @indiana146 Před 4 lety +5

      True sir

    • @indiana146
      @indiana146 Před 4 lety +13

      It didn't do the lady journalist who outed the Panama papers
      She told the truth and was blown t bits
      My pal has 2 relatives in Swedish intelligence they said malmo is more or less a no go zone and the country is struggling to cope with immigrant gangs bringing in guns and grenades that are used every week in crime and terror acts
      Nothing on so news channels

    • @davejones9503
      @davejones9503 Před 4 lety +2

      Can't you think of anything to say yourself.

    • @patdiggin7053
      @patdiggin7053 Před 4 lety +3

      Deceit is the normal state of affairs.

    • @joshuapearson2217
      @joshuapearson2217 Před 4 lety +1

      We can see that this is true now; but I’d really like to know how the hell he came to realize it.

  • @ddoherty5956
    @ddoherty5956 Před rokem +8

    That this guy could go anywhere in the world and make lots of money but chooses to do the right thing and bring these issues to light is inspiring.

  • @escapethematrix5069
    @escapethematrix5069 Před 3 lety +47

    What an absolute credit to his role as an elected politician and representative of the Greek people. I take my hat of to him for his honesty, integrity and most of all, bravery as a human being. It's a shame most other people in his position have become as corrupt as the establishment in which they serve. May god bless the Greek people, now and in the future.

  • @angelicaluce3230
    @angelicaluce3230 Před 5 lety +183

    "ECONOMICS is BANNED in EUROPE" There you have it, folks THE TRUTH ! - Thank God for YANIS VAROUFAKIS

    • @JohnGeometresMaximos
      @JohnGeometresMaximos Před 3 lety

      Yannnis doesn't believe in God.

    • @borntodoit8744
      @borntodoit8744 Před 3 lety +2

      @@JohnGeometresMaximos and Yannis is bitter the EU wouldnt give in to Greek demands when they needed a bailout from EU (for Greece living beyond its mean).
      Everything he says should be taken with a pinch of salt...he ha created a house of cards to explain the EU is villians and Greeks are heroes. Greeks are the villians if anything, architect of their own austerity.

    • @JohnGeometresMaximos
      @JohnGeometresMaximos Před 3 lety +5

      ​@@borntodoit8744
      - Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt -
      'Banks are responsible for the crisis in Greece
      : Debts claimed from Greece are odious'
      by Eric Toussaint
      [9 January 2017]

    • @colindevenish1112
      @colindevenish1112 Před 3 lety

      When they fall down, kick them EU policy.

    • @unhappygilmore7129
      @unhappygilmore7129 Před 3 lety

      On the contrary it's working exactly as they want it to.

  • @DocMartinPortWenn
    @DocMartinPortWenn Před 5 lety +195

    Yanis Varoufakis is a lovely human being, I wish him well and hope he gets the luck he needs to succeed. Great show thanks!

  • @vicstein288
    @vicstein288 Před 4 lety +66

    I am so glad I discovered this video. I am one of many who believed the propaganda that the Greeks were simply "Lazy" and that is why they were bankrupted. Then I heard Nigel Farage at EU parliament mention the plight of Greece and his accusation of EU ruining that nation. So I got interested. Now Yanis explaining and enlightening us. I owe my Geek friends an apology.

    • @iTheGeo
      @iTheGeo Před 3 lety +2

      Greek are still suffering from this sabotage. I have witnessed many discussions where one would toss just a word or a sentence of lazy innuendo or accusation of laziness against Greeks and the Greek yet again having to spend more of his time to bring up all the facts in order to explain the 'simple' truth.

    • @gazepskotzs4
      @gazepskotzs4 Před 2 lety +2

      Ok i am going there. I hope that the last sentence you wrote was not a "Freudian" mistake.
      Lol, just joking, it was obviously a honest mistake.

    • @vicstein288
      @vicstein288 Před 2 lety +1

      @@gazepskotzs4 Of course! It was. 😊

    • @davidbrown2571
      @davidbrown2571 Před 2 lety +5

      The EU is mirroring Germany before 1914.

    • @ddoherty5956
      @ddoherty5956 Před rokem

      Ireland would be in the same state if the UK didn't bail them out, brexit showed how grateful they were.

  • @eisvogel8099
    @eisvogel8099 Před 4 lety +33

    This man is worth his weight in gold. A true patriot as well. This is how politicians should be. Thanks for sharing

  • @themoderntemplar1567
    @themoderntemplar1567 Před 5 lety +1137

    I have yet to meet a "lazy Greek", not only are they industrious despite the mess their government's got them into with the corrupt EU but amongst the friendliest and most welcoming people you can find.

    • @oingoboingo4455
      @oingoboingo4455 Před 5 lety +51

      true and a majority come to the Us and are business owners

    • @10wanderer
      @10wanderer Před 5 lety +14

      And they do not like paying taxes , who does?. that,s why they got in trouble

    • @brianbozo2447
      @brianbozo2447 Před 5 lety +44

      They are lovely warm welcoming people . But there may be a corruption mentality. I knew a doctor in a hospital and he said all doctors took brown envelopes from patients in order to get priority treatment. My friend refused to do this but all the other doctors applied group think and regarded him as being odd not to also play that game.

    • @10wanderer
      @10wanderer Před 5 lety +10

      @@brianbozo2447 That,s why they got into trouble with debt, they don,t like paying taxes and they are corrupt

    • @timc9806
      @timc9806 Před 5 lety +19

      Maybe so but they sure as hell don't pay their taxes.

  • @carolynbane-bolinger9639
    @carolynbane-bolinger9639 Před 5 lety +135

    This is one smart and ethical dude, virtually a lone voice in the wilderness.

    • @razvansfirlogea3134
      @razvansfirlogea3134 Před 4 lety +3

      You are calling a far-left extermist 'smart and ethical'? Are you well in the head, fren?

    • @JohnGeometresMaximos
      @JohnGeometresMaximos Před 3 lety +1

      He's a Soros employee, telling you want you want to hear.

    • @johnmaxwell1750
      @johnmaxwell1750 Před 3 lety +3

      Socialism leads to economic disaster and to impoverishment. Varoufakis is a socialist. He is neither smart nor ethical.

    • @borntodoit8744
      @borntodoit8744 Před 3 lety +2

      @@johnmaxwell1750 and you believe in capitalism ? (an even bigger failing ideology).
      Socialism is better than capitalism.

    • @johnmaxwell1750
      @johnmaxwell1750 Před 3 lety +1

      @@borntodoit8744 -Yes, you Dolt, I believe in capitalism because it works. In a free market each person is able to bargain with different people to determine the pecuniary value of his/her own labor, rather than to be forcibly remunerated according to a decision made by some government official per socialism. A free market system is just and proper because it enables each person to achieve the highest possible pecuniary return for his/her labor by bargaining with multiple people and by freely entering into contracts that will most advantageously remunerate remunerate him/her. This willing seller-willing buyer situation also benefits society because it incentivizes people to develop and provide new and improved products and services for the public. Products and services developed competitively through free enterprise are on the whole far superior to the products and services that are available in a government-controlled socialist economies. Whenever and wherever true socialist economies have been instituted, they have ALWAYS failed to compete with free market systems. Furthermore, socialism can not survive unless it is forcibly imposed by government on citizens. True socialism benifits only the elite ruling class and always deprives other citizens of basic rights.

  • @Umdloti
    @Umdloti Před 3 lety +36

    Yanis, that was an eye opener, the democratic world needs more people like you.
    Can't wait to read your book.

    • @funkyfiss
      @funkyfiss Před 3 lety +2

      Yes I just stumbled upon this video now. I am very impressed. I Should go buy the book.

  • @suradj.cdoekharan9713
    @suradj.cdoekharan9713 Před 3 lety +13

    One of the very few politicians of these days with a sense of duty. Very eloquently spoken and a very wise man.

  • @claudedietrich8654
    @claudedietrich8654 Před 5 lety +122

    Varoufakis is a unique voice, exceptionally clear, brilliant and with what feels like a very kind , concerned heart. The interviewer here is also really good.

  • @brikfiend
    @brikfiend Před 5 lety +758

    This Gent is a truth speaker, a rare commodity in politics.

    • @GWAYGWAY1
      @GWAYGWAY1 Před 4 lety +18

      That is because h is not a politician, he is a thinker, and an honest man. politician need to lie to get elected and then lie to get re elected again.

    • @h.u.t.9677
      @h.u.t.9677 Před 4 lety +7

      he would rather be hanged than admit he is not right. he is a narcissit more than everything else. i understand why you believe him. i have voted for him . but as far as we hate the establishment, let truth be truth

    • @gual-xz9fw
      @gual-xz9fw Před 4 lety +2

      @GreekForTruth1 Meaning...Greece, Italy, Portugal accepted the € in spite of NOT meeting the criteria....just to satisfy a WHIM and a crazy unthought of dream...too early....and what kind of "wanker" are you?

    • @azimuthnext591
      @azimuthnext591 Před 4 lety +6

      How can he be Islam loving and a soros puppet at the same time?

    • @ericmouzourides3483
      @ericmouzourides3483 Před 4 lety +4

      @GreekForTruth1 He makes more sense that you!

  • @funkyfiss
    @funkyfiss Před 3 lety +23

    The very best explanation of the Greek crisis I have ever heard!
    👏👏👏
    They should of absolutely done his plan for recovery. It was by far the best choice. Greece has suffered so much since the crisis and now the pandemic.

  • @ginamitembe8935
    @ginamitembe8935 Před 3 lety +25

    VERY few people who speak the truth in today's world 💯👏👏 Yanis your are ONE of the few!!!👍🌍

  • @quadrofolio
    @quadrofolio Před 5 lety +420

    A very smart and eloquent man. The Greek bailout was not a bailout of the Greeks but a way to prop up failed banks in Germany and France. Paid for by all the taxpayers in Europe... Banks should be able to fail and go bankrupt. The Greeks have been shafted that much is certain.

    • @aesma2522
      @aesma2522 Před 4 lety +6

      No, if the banks had failed, all of Europe would have been in the Greek situation. The banks should have been bailed out directly by the ECB, and maybe nationalized (or rather, federalized). But the Germans couldn't have that.

    • @josephdockemeyer4807
      @josephdockemeyer4807 Před 4 lety +9

      Interestingly, the Rothschilds are hiding behind all this subterfuge. They're at the center certain of the problems in the western world. Puppetmasters. They make Soros look like a kindergartner.

    • @Machiuka
      @Machiuka Před 4 lety +2

      I think in 2009 all governments of EU takes loans to support the banks. That was the case for Romania, which loans 30 bln Euro from IMF and World Bank to bailout the banks which operate in the country. Maybe Poland was an exception.

    • @TVVultch
      @TVVultch Před 4 lety +1

      Not true, rubbish infact.

    • @barrylast8655
      @barrylast8655 Před 4 lety +1

      🤔 Under the guise of unity and before, during & after the mask of Olympics! 😝

  • @lancelotxavier9084
    @lancelotxavier9084 Před 7 lety +129

    When the economy fails one only needs to notice who has gotten richer to find the cause of the failure.

    • @cayennenaturetrails8953
      @cayennenaturetrails8953 Před 5 lety

      Good Point

    • @captkirk8974
      @captkirk8974 Před 5 lety

      U MITE BE RITE

    • @okayokay3701
      @okayokay3701 Před 5 lety +2

      Soros gets billions influencing politics to affect economies and by shorting the stock market on the influenced economy he gets his billions- then soros uses that money to affect politics in another counties economy.

  • @channelwanderer7010
    @channelwanderer7010 Před 3 lety +18

    I remember this guy being slated by MSM and I knew then he was no fool. Very calculating guy. The greeks are lucky to have a straight forward guy like this

    • @konstantinapapaioannou4306
      @konstantinapapaioannou4306 Před 2 lety +1

      We are unlucky to have all the rest of them though. He is outnumbered unfortunately by all the other dishonest politicians. The vast majority of greeks do not like him unfortunately and consider him responsible for what happened.

  • @anushkie100
    @anushkie100 Před 3 lety +11

    What an exceptional and noble man with the brilliant mind!!! Thank you!

  • @maxyakov273
    @maxyakov273 Před 6 lety +243

    He comes across to me as one very intelligent man, based on his knowledge of English alone and his skillful delivery of his thoughts.

  • @mikekavanagh8952
    @mikekavanagh8952 Před 6 lety +432

    This Man speaks the truth, Jean Claude Juncker and his cronies has caused to much Hardship to Europeans,

  • @9940r024
    @9940r024 Před 4 lety +71

    I have always believed that Greece made a huge error in not leaving the EU when they found it impossible to make loan payments. Greece should have walked away from both the EU and the dept, reissued the Greek currency obviously at a deflated rate. They could have built a huge tourist industry overnight !

    • @Cyclonut96
      @Cyclonut96 Před 4 lety +6

      He did not want to leave the EU, he just wanted to have a democratically ruled EU.

    • @porteiromendes8466
      @porteiromendes8466 Před 4 lety +7

      You don't build a country on the basis of a tourist industry, much to the contrary.

    • @panayiotisyannopoulos2668
      @panayiotisyannopoulos2668 Před 4 lety +2

      Defence Man you don’t build a country with weak currencies in the present day. There are no magic solutions.
      The only thing you succeed when you are tied up at euro loans and change to a weak currency is to devalue all Greek property by the same rate outright. Been bought for pennies.
      With weak currency you can’t buy technology and advance, you try to become what then? Indian or Chinese?

    • @samsara5916
      @samsara5916 Před 4 lety +3

      How would a tourist industry work if Greece leave? Isn’t travel also dictated by the E.U.

    • @chrispapa2782
      @chrispapa2782 Před 3 lety

      Defence Man definitely.

  • @boeingdriver29
    @boeingdriver29 Před 4 lety +24

    Intelligent, passionate, charismatic, much respect for Yanis.

  • @394pjo
    @394pjo Před 5 lety +131

    Amazing. Varoufakis is hypnotic in his explanations and breakdowns so that even someone who has no understanding of economics can grasp. Thats the first time I have watched a youtube video all the way to the end since 2005.

    • @talstory
      @talstory Před 3 lety

      I don't know about that..to really understand him you surely need more than a basic grasp of economics?

    • @johnmaxwell1750
      @johnmaxwell1750 Před 3 lety

      Varoufakis is not wise or insightful. He is a committed socialist. Socialism simply doesn't work as an economic system. Past socialist governments have gotten Greece into trouble. His advice would lead Greece into much deeper trouble.

    • @robertely686
      @robertely686 Před 3 lety

      @@johnmaxwell1750in this situation it's the banks and financial institutions that are socialists - they're dependant on other people's money and get rewarded for failure.
      You're right in that it doesn't work as an economic system

    • @johnmaxwell1750
      @johnmaxwell1750 Před 3 lety

      @@robertely686 - No, a centrally planned economy with government ownership of all property doesn't have multiple banks and private investment institutions. That is socialism. Don't blame Greek or German banks for the Greek economic disaster. Blame leftist socialists like Varoufakis who for years advocated spending far more than was justified by collected revenues. Varoufakis was a finance minister and made the situation worse.

    • @damnyourpasswords
      @damnyourpasswords Před 3 lety

      He is trained, this is the MARXIST power, hypnotism by fast wording low voice and and condensation, for a long period of time.

  • @thomassimmons1950
    @thomassimmons1950 Před 5 lety +85

    What a guy. God bless him and the Greek people. (You don't need game theory when you know Sophoclean and Shakespearean Tragedy). BRILLIANT!

  • @anne-mariewillingham698
    @anne-mariewillingham698 Před 3 lety +21

    I remember feeling so sorry for the Greek Government it destroyed the ordinary working people , I remember the elderly citizen’s suffered, even though I have never been to Greek, this interview explained what it was about, the banks have a lot to answer , thank you ,

  • @sanekabc
    @sanekabc Před 4 lety +6

    Extraordinary command of the English language and one of the most eloquent and articulate speakers in the world.

  • @gerttjildsen5612
    @gerttjildsen5612 Před 5 lety +168

    I`ve always liked this bloke, very smart indeed. His command of English and his vocabulary is better than many that are English born. He would make a great James Bond villain!

  • @presidentnixon5052
    @presidentnixon5052 Před 7 lety +126

    "This program can't work, but we've invested too much political capital to stop now" - Christine Lagarde

    • @kaunas88
      @kaunas88 Před 5 lety +8

      That about sums it up...and the vast majority of utterly stupid political decisions.

    • @ericjohnson7234
      @ericjohnson7234 Před 5 lety +6

      fuck politic leave the trainwreck

    • @timc9806
      @timc9806 Před 5 lety +5

      Yeah, that line alone explains a hell of a lot of politics that we see on the news. If we are ignorant of the machinisations and psychology of power then very little of it makes sense.

    • @JohnGeometresMaximos
      @JohnGeometresMaximos Před 3 lety

      Nixon was based.
      He only said one thing that I really didn't like in the Frost interview.

    • @dhsumana407
      @dhsumana407 Před 3 lety

      @@carpediem5882 not all of them dear Carpe [ is that your real name ? ] The political is only one area of human activity . We are each responsible for the world we inhabit to some degree . That’s where we can contribute - in the ‘ Circle of Influence ‘ and often not in the `Circle of Concern ‘.

  • @carlpearce2252
    @carlpearce2252 Před 4 lety +68

    I was living in Germany when the Euro came in, and we were skint overnight.

    • @josephdockemeyer4807
      @josephdockemeyer4807 Před 4 lety +2

      Skint? I'm not familiar with that term. US here... Sorry.

    • @deniseg-hill1730
      @deniseg-hill1730 Před 4 lety +4

      Skint means broke. I remember things that were 1 deutsche mark and became 1 Euro which was actually 2 deutsche marks. So prices went up.

    • @TVVultch
      @TVVultch Před 4 lety +10

      Agree on that, the plan was for Germany to pay for Europe as some sort of guilt trip for WWII, (ps look int who really started WWII, it was not the Germans) Anyhow, Germany works to subsidise everyone else. Except the Germans are slowly waking up, it is absurd that Germany has to pay for other nations. Germany's AfD wants Germany out of the EU and they are the fastest-growing political party in Germany, now a major force. Once Germany leaves the EU is dead. Apparently, Merkel has just agreed to pay the extra money needed to cover the Brexit shortfall, its in the British press but not in the German media, strange that.

    • @dudedude869
      @dudedude869 Před 4 lety +2

      so sad its true bring back the deutche mark germany leave the EU.......

    • @TVVultch
      @TVVultch Před 4 lety +5

      @@dudedude869 That just may happen, many Germans now waking up to the ridiculous notion that somehow Germany must pay for Europe, the Germans have the most expensive electricity in Europe, paying for Brexit as no one else can pay for the UK contribution, paying billions to Turkey. Young Germans are now complaining they can barely afford to live.

  • @openureyes
    @openureyes Před 4 lety +44

    I am Irish and Ireland is still recovering from the 2008 downturn we have a housing problem health system is not working , emergency tax still be taken out of everyone's wages the government couldn't run a small corner shop am I angry yes I am angry 😡

    • @imsearching4yearsnowforana966
      @imsearching4yearsnowforana966 Před 4 lety

      "IS STILL RECOVERING" at least you do, thank god

    • @cherepaha3
      @cherepaha3 Před 4 lety +6

      Balbriggan has turned into Blackbriggan

    • @muskrat477
      @muskrat477 Před 3 lety +2

      In fairness the EU didn't help either, 42% of EU banking debt

    • @sheilasullivan1950
      @sheilasullivan1950 Před 3 lety +3

      We were blackmailed into joining in the 1970s. They don't give. They take, take, take and dare you correct or complain. Retaliate should you think for yourself and try to escape. Hogtied to permanent debt so they can live free. We suffer as usual.

    • @edwardoleyba3075
      @edwardoleyba3075 Před 3 lety

      @@sheilasullivan1950 . And forced into joining the Euro too 😡🤮

  • @johnti8603
    @johnti8603 Před 5 lety +43

    One of the Smartest men alive. Just not politically plugged in to the elite global community. That's a good thing!!

    • @waridinyakfie7044
      @waridinyakfie7044 Před 4 lety

      He needs to plug into something ,somewhere ,for someone's good soon !!! Otherwise what good is he to anyone ????!?! Why did he not run for any Eu position !!? The Europe for starters would be charting a different course , by now and steering the rest of the world towards an acceptable direction !!!!! Every corner turned on earth was on the shoulders of the momentum of a mere mortals belief in his strength , Yannis can be a true Spartan, Aristotle .....a herculean Greek God !! Let him take a shield n Trident , n step to the lions den ... The world in turn will shut their mouthes n make sure he is never harmed !!! We are the generation that owe ourselves this revolution within our lifetime !!!! Wake up worldwide !! Revolt everywhere !!!!!?

  • @ariakritidis2000
    @ariakritidis2000 Před 5 lety +648

    Very interesting. He is a brilliant thinker and makes alot of sense. I think the EU is destroying Europe

    • @rattrapsupervisor4886
      @rattrapsupervisor4886 Před 5 lety +43

      The EU are the modern USSR made created to destroy the peoples cultures , identities etc. Remember how they killed off millions of the population then? Now they are doing it in subtle ways by bringing in immigration etc so its not as noticeable of genocide versus the other time. Kalergi plan look it up!

    • @fleming0077
      @fleming0077 Před 4 lety +16

      @@rattrapsupervisor4886 Whoa! Mind blown... nicely and concisely stated. Couldn't have said it better. Kudos...

    • @tobyw9573
      @tobyw9573 Před 4 lety +26

      Soros’ purpose is to destroy the nation state and their cultures.

    • @cicero2
      @cicero2 Před 4 lety +25

      The people who run the EU are the same people who financed two world wars. The Zionist Bankers! The destruction of white Christian Europe has always been their aim. Search the Coudenhove Kalergi Group

    • @novis34
      @novis34 Před 4 lety +4

      👍👍👍

  • @ibrahim-sj2cr
    @ibrahim-sj2cr Před 3 lety +14

    his articulation and use of idioms and english vocab and grammar is beyond fluent. im a university educated english native and i would learn english from him without hesitation

  • @KiatHuang
    @KiatHuang Před 3 lety +8

    Very smart, eloquent guy and sounds like he has a lot of integrity too.

  • @geoffreyallen888
    @geoffreyallen888 Před 5 lety +62

    Now I know more than I did. Puts the Beeb to shame? And our government......it stinks, stinks, stinks.

  • @shaktiveda7041
    @shaktiveda7041 Před 5 lety +61

    Great interview, thank you for this share. Greeks are not "lazy," neither the Italians, Spain or French, average european are genuinely industrious, truly hard working people, very sharp, and honest to their core.

    • @xeniastefanescu507
      @xeniastefanescu507 Před 4 lety +5

      shakti veda.......I would ask a question .Why Greece, Spain ,Portugal , had a very good economic situation before entering the EU .??Why?Because they were sovereign countries . and they took the best decisions for their own countries.

    • @shaktiveda7041
      @shaktiveda7041 Před 4 lety +5

      @@xeniastefanescu507 Xenia, yours is a good question, I like it, and, please don't get me wrong, but I don't have all the time in the world to adequately answer to it and I may not even be prepared enough to answer, but I can give you a great advice that will not only answer this question, but it will also bring a lot of light to the entire situation, indeed...I hope you don't mind me if I send you a link: czcams.com/video/57UBuxnicOA/video.html
      You probably already know Mark Passio, but if you don't, then you will when you check this video I sent you in the link above.
      To be honest, I moved away from politics long time ago, it's all theater at the people's expenses, no matter what race, what color the skin, the eyes, or the hair...

    • @konstantinapapaioannou4306
      @konstantinapapaioannou4306 Před 2 lety +2

      As a greek, the amount of racism I have encountered from Germans is insane. I clearly remember many cases of introducing myself as a greek to german people and the insults about being poor and lazy and not paying taxes started immediately. And no, they were not meant as jokes, these were people I'd just met and the first thing they though of saying to me after I mentioned my name and ethnicity was insults and racism. It was completely insane. I know not everyone is like that in Germany, as i have german friends who are cool, but the anti-greek propaganda in german politics and media between 2008 and now, has done a lot of damage and has caused hate and racism in germany.

    • @shaktiveda7041
      @shaktiveda7041 Před 2 lety

      @@konstantinapapaioannou4306 Completely get your message here, I myself have experienced the same not only by others, but even by my own's in my own country and outside of it. I won't even bother to mention my nationality since I realized that I was the one who was generating my own problem...how? you might ask...simple, by defining myself as belonging to a nationality, it doesn't matter what nationality we pick or choose, (I used to be very proud of my roots and still am), however, by defining myself as belonging to a nationality group I fell into the trap of self-confinement, while on the other hand, I usually like to keep myself "outside of the box" any "box" no matter how big that box might be, it still a box. Anything we identify ourselves into is meant to show us where we make ourselves small and where we accept confinements and loose our true freedom. We need to overcome all definitions and confinements to discover our true selves, nature, and why not even the talents that come from overcoming these conditionings and false constructs.
      Blessings to all 💓

    • @user-zz9gn2dc3l
      @user-zz9gn2dc3l Před 8 měsíci +1

      Same as the Brits. Do not let them divide and conquer!

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup Před 4 lety +8

    "I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
    Tennessee Williams.

  • @burnsnight1
    @burnsnight1 Před 4 lety +22

    Exactly the same problem in the UK. Traitors in parliament, doing deals with the EU.

  • @boxie001
    @boxie001 Před 4 lety +28

    it is always nice to hear someone confirm what I could see with my own dutch eyes.
    yes it was a bank bailout and not a rescue plan for the Greeks.

  • @gezor20
    @gezor20 Před 6 lety +93

    I am so happy that I stumbled into this.

  • @tomc.5704
    @tomc.5704 Před 3 lety +5

    So glad I found this channel. This is quality, quality economic interviews

  • @woodspirit98
    @woodspirit98 Před 4 lety +9

    It took me 60 seconds to respect this guy and admire him. I need to read this book.

  • @cscott9361
    @cscott9361 Před 7 lety +124

    It has been a long time , since I had the pleasure of listening to a " what I would call " realistic view point . If our so called leaders , spoke and thought like Yanis , I would be tempted to vote again .

    • @Trapatatra
      @Trapatatra Před 6 lety +1

      Salute to everybody who understands...Honestly, I'm like: yeah, that is wrong... but what does it really means? How do you get to that conclusion? Ultimately, What are we talking about?... for a Greek man to be quoting Shakespeare twice in 15min with so much culture his country has to offer... I'm blown away, so young, so sharp, so precise and secure. But I don't understand what he is talking about...this is a subject worth at least 120 hours... I don't understand... Yes, I'm just 15 min in but this is an interview... Europe is bulling Greece yes, how...bla bla... but why? ... why it all has to work that way? What is the end game? 2 beers in Samana for who ever helps me understand.

    • @viktorvaldemar
      @viktorvaldemar Před 6 lety +2

      Maybe you should buy and read the book they are discussing?

    • @willtherealgeorgemichaelpl5879
      @willtherealgeorgemichaelpl5879 Před 5 lety +1

      The end game my friend is one world goverment.WE GIVE YOU THE PROBLEM,THEN WE GIVE YOU OUR SOLUTION.

    • @RawandCookedVegan
      @RawandCookedVegan Před 5 lety

      @@Trapatatra It seems to be that power and greed are the primary motivating forces and consequently the good of the public is left by the wayside.

  • @MsWencai
    @MsWencai Před 5 lety +10

    I am 60 years old, when I was 16 my farther told me that all this was going to be happening i didn't understand then I do now !

    • @andrewhenry4168
      @andrewhenry4168 Před 4 lety

      where was your father coming from how did he understand so far ahead

  • @manonwaterloobridge8408
    @manonwaterloobridge8408 Před 3 lety +6

    A very astute and clever man -- and an honest one .

  • @robinwells8879
    @robinwells8879 Před 4 lety +7

    Fabulous interview. Deeply insightful.

  • @vanessabrooks8656
    @vanessabrooks8656 Před 5 lety +52

    Brilliant honest interview Yanis, more of this please.

  • @queenofwords
    @queenofwords Před 7 lety +70

    I like how he relates real life events to Shakespeare and Greek tragedy, that's brilliant! I have been a lifelong lover of anything Shakespeare as well as the classic tragedies and have studied it well.... it speaks to universal themes perfectly....

  • @xabierfachal5326
    @xabierfachal5326 Před rokem +1

    I enjoyed every minute in this interview. Professor Varoufakis apeears as someone you can trust as he explains how politics (beaurocracy) works in EU. For me as European citizen, both crisis 2008 and COVID (especially 2008, due to better PR from Europe at handling that second crisis), were an absolute dissapointment and a blow right in the middle of my proud European citizenship. Great interview. In Spain, the main media lack of such prrepared and honest journalists.

  • @cumbrianhomestead
    @cumbrianhomestead Před 3 lety +4

    I like this guy, he speaks with intellect, honesty and integrity.

  • @isismccain915
    @isismccain915 Před 5 lety +114

    Professor Yanis is a patriot of the first magnitude.
    Make NO mistake about that.
    Just look at what is going on in Europe as we speak.....2 years after this interview!!

    • @panayiotisyannopoulos2668
      @panayiotisyannopoulos2668 Před 4 lety +2

      He is the same person in Greece he was saying and wanted to open the borders to let immigrants pass to advanced European countries.
      Make no mistake, he is an outdated leftish.

    • @panayiotisyannopoulos2668
      @panayiotisyannopoulos2668 Před 4 lety

      Crazy Ep your effort to insult to a Greek is more annoying.
      All I see through is no argument , just that an insult.
      No logic lover would be proud of you
      I guess been you is simple enough to know what happens without knowledge of actual facts or in simple delusions

    • @wildec2
      @wildec2 Před 3 lety

      "Professor Yanis is a patriot of the first magnitude. "
      What the hell is first magnitude? Haha, is that like a close encounter of the 1st kind?

  • @fernandoespinosa3403
    @fernandoespinosa3403 Před 5 lety +18

    Great interview. It’s so refreshing to see a politician talk straight. Thanks for posting this video.

  • @rogerengland2821
    @rogerengland2821 Před 4 lety +42

    Wow ! 🤨
    This is how the the cards fall.
    Let the truth be heard.

  • @carolekohl-duggan9982
    @carolekohl-duggan9982 Před 2 lety +2

    Yes, to be thankful for what we have missed, and infinitely grateful for what we have had. I agree! 👍🙏

  • @cayennenaturetrails8953
    @cayennenaturetrails8953 Před 5 lety +115

    the System itself is designed to benefits those whom want to keep their Power & Position !

    • @NamisJC
      @NamisJC Před 4 lety

      That is what U call democracy!

    • @Zen-rw2fz
      @Zen-rw2fz Před 3 lety

      @@NamisJC It's called capitalism, there's nothing democeatic about it

    • @Adrian-pp6qy
      @Adrian-pp6qy Před 3 lety

      @@Zen-rw2fz Most democratic form of economy. Don't be a fool, educated yourself.

    • @Zen-rw2fz
      @Zen-rw2fz Před 3 lety

      ​@@Adrian-pp6qy ok sir, I will educated myself

    • @Adrian-pp6qy
      @Adrian-pp6qy Před 3 lety

      @@Zen-rw2fz Good. Being ignorant and clueless isn't too productive anyways. Just imagine if sweden wasn't heavily capitalist. They couldn't keep up their social welfare system.

  • @jonathanclarke281
    @jonathanclarke281 Před 6 lety +83

    It´s nice to see a European politician quoting Shakespeare!

    • @zoricazorica5752
      @zoricazorica5752 Před 3 lety

      He was trained in Britain and is fishing for work in the Britain Frankly the Greeks are glad to get rid of this narassistic psychopath You can have him,fits like a glove into irrelevant Brexitland

  • @simonmorris4226
    @simonmorris4226 Před 4 lety +20

    My grandfather died in Greece trying to protect your freedom. Greece is not too small to matter!

    • @simonmorris4226
      @simonmorris4226 Před 4 lety

      @SpinazFou happily as I appreciate the respect you give. He was a blacksmiths son and stonemason who joined the Royal Engineers. He was attempting to assist refugees onto the Hellas when the Germans dive bombed it. He died of shrapnel wounds and my granny only found out he was dead two years after the event. His name was Samuel Cartmale and if you search the British War Graves Commission website there are records of his memorial in Athens. It’s a very uncommon name so quite easy to find in that context.

    • @baraka094
      @baraka094 Před 3 lety

      I am sorry your grandfather was tricked to die for thé industrials

    • @simonmorris4226
      @simonmorris4226 Před 3 lety

      @@baraka094 I think you really need to study history. He stood up and fought against arrogant bullies.

    • @baraka094
      @baraka094 Před 3 lety

      @@simonmorris4226 well respects to your grandfather I will in no Way discriminate NOR lower anybody. We are all one family. Those Who stand up to the truth are thé best amongnst us

  • @Total1Now
    @Total1Now Před 3 lety +2

    Reassuring that there are still some intelligent, powerful and honest people

  • @person.X.
    @person.X. Před 7 lety +133

    Varoufakis is the person who has best articulated what has really been going on during the Euro crisis. Politicians throughout Europe have simply been totally dishonest with their electorates because they know that prioritising the interests of the self destructing financial elite over everyone else would be a non starter if voters knew what was happening.

    • @marshallbs
      @marshallbs Před 6 lety +2

      The problem is voters don't understand HOW they are being screwed. They prefer a simple narrative that doesn't require any deep thinking on their part. The reactionary agenda is so much easier to swallow. Just pretend entire economies can be compared to individual households.

    • @JohnGeometresMaximos
      @JohnGeometresMaximos Před 5 lety +1

      yaNis has unrealistic economic aspirations and utter shit social ones.

    • @BirdArvid
      @BirdArvid Před 5 lety

      Indeed; same as everywhere else..

    • @laslasman1206
      @laslasman1206 Před 5 lety

      Bringing real insight into euro financial setup....and Greek financial tragedy..

    • @oldmanwinter3597
      @oldmanwinter3597 Před rokem

      @@marshallbs And that is why the voters are getting exactly what they deserve.

  • @captkirk8974
    @captkirk8974 Před 5 lety +35

    A VERY KNOWLEDGABLE FELLOW,kudos to him

  • @jb7052
    @jb7052 Před 3 lety +5

    That man has morals and guts. He calls it as it is. The EU has tried to tarnish the Greeks as lazy and work shy when the crisis was all of the EU’s doing. He could single handedly run a better economy than all the bureaucrats in Europe put together

  • @alanharrison573
    @alanharrison573 Před 3 lety +10

    The EU needs to go. Its a monster.

  • @peter-isnt-here9645
    @peter-isnt-here9645 Před 6 lety +21

    this bloke talks so much sense,i have much respect for him

  • @SMX815
    @SMX815 Před 6 lety +100

    This man talks common sense & he is spot on!

    • @JohnGeometresMaximos
      @JohnGeometresMaximos Před 5 lety +1

      Some people who talk common sense are extremely dangerous...I don't want to resort to Godwin's law, so I'll leave it at that.

    • @youtubeuseral
      @youtubeuseral Před 5 lety +5

      The only thing that is worth anything in truth no matter how dangerous it is or gets!
      Truth is what could free the world of the corrupt!

    • @user-zz9gn2dc3l
      @user-zz9gn2dc3l Před 8 měsíci

      Yes 🙌 keep bringing it people 💪❤️

  • @monuseons
    @monuseons Před 4 lety +31

    He has a tremendous analytical mind

  • @DomenicMarando
    @DomenicMarando Před rokem

    Full marks to both participants in the interview! Varoufakis' candour and spontaneity in revealing the truth about what happened is much appreciated. The world needs more men like him in public office!

  • @MrTomcat124
    @MrTomcat124 Před 5 lety +47

    I never bought a book in my life but I'll make my first purchase for Yani's book. I feel good just liseting to how he explain his field so clearly. Wow!

    • @ThelmaThais1
      @ThelmaThais1 Před 4 lety

      Why if someone is charismatic or say some truth is treated as a god, will you kiss his ass too? 🧐😏

    • @blackrabbit212
      @blackrabbit212 Před 4 lety +1

      I would be ashamed to admit I had never bought a book.

    • @dampwally611
      @dampwally611 Před 4 lety

      @@blackrabbit212 does stealing a book count?

    • @dampwally611
      @dampwally611 Před 4 lety

      @@blackrabbit212
      Yes, it was a library book and when I saw the error of my ways I took it back and quietly placed it on the shelf. It was free to join the library but stealing the book was more of a challenge.

    • @blackrabbit212
      @blackrabbit212 Před 4 lety +1

      @@dampwally611 You read it! That's the important thing. As important as returning the book so other people could ste..., sorry, read it.

  • @b.terenceharwick3222
    @b.terenceharwick3222 Před 7 lety +85

    "Canarie in the mine..."
    "The liberal establishment has lost the plot..."
    Where did the money really go?
    "A ten year old can tell you this will not end well..."

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest Před 7 lety +23

      The story of the Emperor's New Clothes Supposedly intelligent people always end up being paralysed by Psychopaths who destroy. If we actually evolved we would learn to see through this. No Chance! Homo Sapiens should be renamed Homo Apathis. What a Shit Species we are!

    • @leo333333able
      @leo333333able Před 7 lety +3

      where did the money go?

    • @henningtriller9938
      @henningtriller9938 Před 7 lety

      Drop your toothpaste and see for yourself

    • @OrangeNash
      @OrangeNash Před 6 lety +2

      Where does it come from?

    • @andrewharper1609
      @andrewharper1609 Před 5 lety +2

      @@leo333333able Germany would be the first destination

  • @carolinamayhale190
    @carolinamayhale190 Před 2 lety +1

    I honestly enjoyed listening to you, you are a very intelligent man who tells a story in a very interesting an unique way.
    I will definitely be listening to you more often. Thank you for this clear and enlightening conversation.

  • @fogbullit1000
    @fogbullit1000 Před 3 lety +4

    We need lots more as honest as him

  • @pavlovsdoggies
    @pavlovsdoggies Před 7 lety +4

    Not only smart as hell but a great speaker easily seeing around the corner with tricky or thorn covered questions. Rare, genuine, and uncommon selflessness.

  • @jayravis
    @jayravis Před 5 lety +133

    Can you believe "no minutes in a meeting" .no wonder we need more democracy in Europe.

    • @DHFORPM
      @DHFORPM Před 5 lety +7

      Sadly, we can all believe this. And yes, we need this change

    • @midniteryder1953
      @midniteryder1953 Před 5 lety +3

      no...you need representative gvt...you need a 'Democratic Republic" like the early Americans...today America is a total mess because in 1913 the USA became a 'democracy' with the 17th amendment and the "Republic" that so many fought for was done away with.

    • @fromzerotospyro
      @fromzerotospyro Před 4 lety +7

      more regulated democracy yea....eu boasts of being all open to the public but when it's about the important decisions the doors are closed

    • @aesma2522
      @aesma2522 Před 4 lety +1

      If you have minutes, there you don't have straight talk. Then straight talk happens in corridors.

    • @briansmith3527
      @briansmith3527 Před 4 lety +2

      jayravis there is a big difference with the United Kingdom and greed is we are by far the richest and the most powerful country within the E.U AFTER GERMANY AND POSSIBLY FRENCH????the E.U as bean trying to bankrupt the United Kingdom for over 40 years but we are still the 5th richest country in the world as we are led to believe????

  • @garthl2954
    @garthl2954 Před rokem

    What a brilliant mind and a clear thinker who delivers on point at every turn. O Kir Varoufakis, I will spend this weekend following the other clips I can find here on CZcams, efharisto polli!!

  • @JasonJason210
    @JasonJason210 Před 3 lety +1

    I like how he as an immediate and decided answer for every question! This man is remarkably clear minded and articulate!

  • @rajann6970
    @rajann6970 Před 5 lety +25

    A very insightful and intelligent explanation of the shenanigans behind the Euro crisis. Excellent prose.

  • @SkillBuilder
    @SkillBuilder Před 4 lety +298

    No minutes? That is enough of a smoking gun to have them all sacked. How they continue to get away with these back-room deals amazes me. The press are falling down on the job or they are being bought off. The should be asking awkward questions.

    • @zelenplav1701
      @zelenplav1701 Před 3 lety +11

      Ppl want to keep their jobs

    • @Total1Now
      @Total1Now Před 3 lety +20

      Well! You can see how the press have supported a despotic system in the current crisis.

    • @joshuaamitai
      @joshuaamitai Před 3 lety +9

      the press is owned by the same , 2 people dared to stand up and Show the world about the EU , they now work somewhere in the basement storing files . I have a book written in the 80's" Nowadays knights" and the very blueprint of how it had to be created! its a empire ruled by a christian sect , the poor guy who wrote the book received dead threats and did get killed at the end . oh , go to the local library and lend the book and you automatically got signaled to the secret police

    • @liner011f7
      @liner011f7 Před 3 lety +4

      For exposing the scheme, insider does risk having a shortened life.

    • @aksbeixhev
      @aksbeixhev Před 3 lety +3

      Who do you think made this video if not the press? Not all countries have unreliable news.

  • @bogdanprzekop
    @bogdanprzekop Před 4 lety

    Thank you for this update...

  • @sandrastewart2450
    @sandrastewart2450 Před rokem +1

    I love this man he is so honest and he
    Tells it like it is if only we had more polititions in this country like him

  • @johnghilduta3016
    @johnghilduta3016 Před 7 lety +109

    EU wasn't design to make all the countries economy prosperous .EU was design to make just a few countries economy's prosperous.The Greece wasn't design to be a winner !

    • @MatthewMcVeagh
      @MatthewMcVeagh Před 6 lety +19

      Not even a few countries, but the rich of any country. Ask German workers how decades of wage restraint feels when your country is supposedly doing so well and its rich are getting ever richer on it.

    • @redpillwoman9785
      @redpillwoman9785 Před 5 lety

      @@warpsneed9338 How do you think banks play a role in it?

    • @warpsneed9338
      @warpsneed9338 Před 5 lety +5

      @@redpillwoman9785 If you control money and the ability to print money, borrow money etc. you can buy a media monopoly, you can buy politicians, you can use all sorts of hard and soft power.

    • @irenelawsonlawson8274
      @irenelawsonlawson8274 Před 5 lety +7

      No it was designed to make the top ones in the EU rich off other people rich, and making countries poor rather than rich. Flood us with immigrants to mess up our countries entirely.

    • @irenelawsonlawson8274
      @irenelawsonlawson8274 Před 5 lety

      I meant peoples backs not peoples rich.

  • @darkspiral7691
    @darkspiral7691 Před 7 lety +466

    I don't know why Yanis would say that it shouldn't matter to anyone else what happened to Greece. I think it should matter immensely to everyone. As a Brit I'm glad to say that it formed a large part of my decision to vote leave in the referendum and I'm glad that 52% of the British people felt strongly enough to call time on this irredeemable European project and finally saw it for what it truly is. Thanks Yanis and the Greek people.

    • @TheQuiQuestion
      @TheQuiQuestion Před 7 lety +41

      It may surprise you that despite Yanis being very sceptical of the EU (and pro-Grexit), Yanis actually spoke strongly in favour of Britain remaining in the EU. His reasoning (Andrew Marr, 29th of May 2016) was that it would accelerate the disintegration of the already disintegrating EU, which Britain would not be able to escape from economically. He said we're screwed either way, but at least if we remain in the EU, we can try to reform it. The EU have proven many times that they are not interested in reforming, which is why I voted to leave.

    • @Gragon
      @Gragon Před 7 lety +22

      I one of the interviews Yanis said that you should avoid becoming a EU and eurozone member, but when youre in, it will be devastating to leave. So your vote ruined your country. Farage played you

    • @MrSpeedfox
      @MrSpeedfox Před 7 lety +15

      You know Yanis actively campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU, right?

    • @gergemini2993
      @gergemini2993 Před 7 lety +23

      i agree 100%...every1 should care about what happens to greece....they after all invented "democracy" not to mention giving us some of the most incredible literature...both myth and historical...which inspired many other western cultures. They also prevented the persians from invading the rest of europa........ Greece is the very bedrock of western civilisation...we owe it more than it owes us.

    • @barryross5840
      @barryross5840 Před 6 lety +5

      Patrick Doyle yannis is correct, what it is, is that Greeks should have control of what they do, for they are the Greeks. Self Auto determination

  • @Morten_Nielsen1979
    @Morten_Nielsen1979 Před 4 lety +2

    This interview just goes to show the power of truth. This man is sharp as a razor. After 2 minutes of listening, I were convinced that he is the real deal.

    • @vonlobo
      @vonlobo Před 4 lety +1

      And he never want to talk about 2 things ;) Why did Greece had problems whit taxes and why did Greece went broke for 12 time in history ;)

    • @Morten_Nielsen1979
      @Morten_Nielsen1979 Před 4 lety

      @@vonlobo Corruption I guess. Do you know why?

  • @annethomas9302
    @annethomas9302 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you. Amazing.

  • @jjt1234
    @jjt1234 Před 7 lety +27

    And why hasn't this been seen by 2 million viewers. This is real history being made.

  • @polokocollen7072
    @polokocollen7072 Před 6 lety +18

    the man interviewed here sounds like a brave and a logical man

  • @s.s.9337
    @s.s.9337 Před 4 lety +13

    Simply put; We are in deep problems, cause of a lot of corrupt creatures running the show, for their own benefactor.
    If only more were like Yanis.

  • @niarusso6625
    @niarusso6625 Před 3 lety +1

    I think what happens in one country Is very important.. It all flows Down-the-line and is very significant. Your explanation is beautifully put. The things that are happening or have happened in Greece in other countries are spreading across the world. We must all be prepared. This evil that lurks is popping up everywhere.