Life is all about change — at least that’s the standard counsel, increasingly received as the years roll by.

Stopping Facebook’s Libra in its tracks was a god thing, but authorities should now do something useful and visionary with the cryptocurrency, writes Yanis Varoufakis.

The conventional wisdom among many Brexit opponents has been that the UK’s new prime minister is “doing a Varoufakis” and will be crushed in similar fashion.

Jeremy Corbyn must expose Boris Johnson’s Trump-deal Brexit and put forward Labour’s plan to end the interminable Brexit ordeal immediately, suggests Yanis Varoufakis.

Let us join forces to block Assange’s extradition from any European country to the US, so that he can travel to Stockholm and give his accusers an opportunity to be heard, writes Yanis Varoufakis

Capitalism has one natural tendency: Stagnation. At a time of broken politics, the world has never needed a post-capitalist vision more, writes Yanis Varoufakis.

Yanis Varoufakis says an enormous sense of anxiety pervades the Brexit debate but a People’s Debate is a democratic way of squaring this circle and solving many issues.

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Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, says bourgeois liberal bleatings have long overlooked the attacks on the living conditions of working-class people

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Stuck in unsanitary camps and a bureaucratic nightmare, asylum-seekers live in limbo on the Greek island of Lesbos, say Yanis Varoufakis and George Tyrikos-Ergas.

In the wake of Catalonia’s bid for independence, Yanis Varoufakis argues that a wish for a pan-European democracy is the prerequisite for imagining a Europe worth saving.

With the use of government bonds to back loans, the money that treasuries create is a shrinking portion of supply, and they have less control of liquidity, says Yanis Varoufakis.

French president’s idea is to move beyond idle optimism by gaining German consent to turn the eurozone into a state-like entity — a federation-lite, writes Yanis Varoufakis.

We are frequently genuinely and understandably concerned with the lack of accountability that exists in much of our political and administrative public bodies. 

A group of European democrats are meeting in Ireland today to discuss how to improve the European Union.

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Yanis Varoufakis supported Emmanuel Macron in his battle with Marine Le Pen, but is determined to see the French president turn his back on his failed neoliberalist policies

One of the first functions attended by France’s president-elect Emmanuel Macron was an event to mark the end of the Second World War.

The liberal establishment in London and around the continent is aghast at how populism is tearing Europe apart, writes Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, looks at the proposal that everybody in society should be given an unconditional income.

Yanis Varoufakis explores the strange new world where money is intrinsically worthless and how the solution to tackling this must come from a change in definition for currencies.

Yanis Varoufakis sees two blocs lining up to battle each other for the idealogical heart of the West. But despite their claims, they are accomplices, not foes.

Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis says making the EU more democratic is the best bet for the left

A global event celebrating whistleblowers and freedom of expression will be held to mark the fourth anniversary of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's stay in the Ecuadorean Embassy.

The ECB acts as the enforcer for the EU’s creditor countries, who tell it when to cut off liquidity or when to give loans that maintain a facade of solvency, writes Yanis Varoufakis

John Maynard Keynes had a plan that was ahead of its time. A few updates and the global economy would be much healthier, writes Yanis Varoufakis

The IMF has just issued its latest set of economic forecasts.

Rigid reform of the Greek economy and punitive taxation is failing to havethe desired impact as entrepreneurs find new and creative ways of bending the rules, writes Yanis Varoufakis

The troika’s disastrous policy has cost taxpayers dearly, writes Yanis Varoufakis

The recent election that returned Alexis Tsipras to power saw a turnout 1.6m down on the referendum vote in July. Passionate Greeks have been left glum, says Yanis Varoufakis

Who is Left, let alone ‘hard-Left’? Labour claims to be Left, while decrying the hard-Left, writes Gerard Howlin

There are ways in which debt could be sensibly restructured without any cost to taxpayers and in a manner that brings Europeans closer together, writes former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Yanis Varoufakis divulged the details on how Greece could sneak out of the euro “without telling anyone”.

International creditors want Greece to enact a third wave of politically sensitive reforms before they release any money to keep the near bankrupt country afloat under a third bailout they began negotiating yesterday.