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Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he was a member of Syriza and was Greece's Minister of Finance between January and July 2015, negotiating on behalf of the Greek government during the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis. .. more

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 2h
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Europe advances its Re-Arm Europe agenda, what’s the real endgame? Join me and Ukrainian sociologist V. Ishchenko this evening (17.00CET) for a chat on the fast moving developments

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Is Europe Betraying Ukraine? Yanis Varoufakis & Volodymyr Ishchenko React LIVE
In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko explore how EU leaders are undermining Ukraine to justify their plans to re-arm Europe. If EU leaders won’t send tro...
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 4h
Ο ΥπΟικ των ΗΠΑ είπε κάτι συγκλονιστικό χθες στο Fox News: Αν η Ρωσία επιτεθεί στην ΕΕ, είπε, οι ΗΠΑ θα μας πουλήσουν όπλα, αλλά δεν θα στείλουν στρατό. Δηλαδή, τέλος το ΝΑΤΟ! Το γεγονός ότι δεν αναφέρθηκε στα ευρωπαϊκά ΜΜΕ αποδεικνύει σε τι καθεστώς παράλυσης βρίσκεται η ΕΕ!

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 4h
Scott Bessent said something remarkable on Fox News yesterday. If Russia attacked Europe, he said, the US would... sell us weapons - but no troops. NATO kaput, in other words. Should this not be headline news across Europe? Is it not a sign of EU brain death that it is not?

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 1d
Συζητώντας σε βάθος, χωρίς συνθήματα, με αγρότες στην Καστοριά τα προβλήματα του αγροτικού και κτηνοτροφικού κόσμου mera25.gr/o-g-varoufak...
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 1d
The judge’s ordeal epitomising Europe’s disappeared values www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
The Judge at the End of Europe
Yanis Varoufakis recounts the Kafkaesque nightmare of Nicolas Guillou, a French magistrate in The Hague targeted by the US.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 3d
Israel's insidious war crimes have not subsided just because Trump succeeded in convincing Western public opinion that the genocide in Gaza has paused. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
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