On 25th April 2015 I had the pleasure to engage in an open discussion with Paul Sheard, Chief Economist with Standard and Poor’s, at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. Watch the video of our discussion and/or read the transcript below.
On 22nd April I had the pleasure of addressing Google staff on money, money’s digital future but also on the dangerous fantasy of apolitical money.
By Daniel Marans. Click here for the HP site or read on…
WASHINGTON — The United States did not pressure Germany more heavily to give Greece debt relief because it needed Germany’s cooperation in higher-priority foreign policy matters, according to a former Greek finance minister.
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Yanis Varoufakis sur TVDebout, interviewé par l’AlterJT !
Lors de la Nuit Debout, L’Alter JT a rencontré Yanis Varoufakis, ex- ministre grec et fondateur du mouvement DIEM 25.
This interview-discussion was recorded at Union Chapel, Islington, on 7th April 2016
This panel, organised by the House of Ambrosetti (Cernobbio), included: Martin Wolf (Chair), Jyrki Katainejn (Vice President of the European Commission), Yves Mersch (ECB Executive Board Member), Yanis Varoufakis (DiEM25), Jens Spahn (State Minister, Finance Ministry, Germany)
The Times reports that, in his first major intervention in the EU referendum campaign, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will talk of his “personal journey” from opposing EU membership to supporting it in a speech tomorrow. He is expected to frame his support for EU on its role in protecting workers’ rights and holding multinational companies to account. The speech was hotly debated within Corbyn’s inner circle with Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s director of strategy and communications, reportedly arguing that lining up with Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne and the CBI would undermine Corbyn’s image as a campaigner against elites. However, Corbyn was reportedly swayed by pro-membership interventions from Portugal’s socialist Prime Minister António Costa and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
This report comes from openeurope.org.uk
When Syriza won the elections in Greece in January 2015, the Slovenian right wing leader, obviously afraid that Slovenia’s New Left could follow its steps, said: Luckily this experiment will fail in Greece and will not be put into practice in Slovenia. Any comment? Continue reading
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Click here for a pdf of Michael Gove’s review of And The Weak Suffer What They Must?
