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Former Greek FinMin Varoufakis Launches Pan-European Anti-Austerity Political Party
Varoufakis’ fans get ready! The ex finance minister is preparing to launch a European movement that will develop into a political party. Yanis Varoufakis will push for a Pan-?uropean network for fight austerity. Instead of running for the upcoming elections, he will put his energy into political action on European level.
Speaking to Late Night Live program of Australian ABC National Radio, Yanis Varoufakis described the elections campaign as “sad and fruitless” and said that he will not be running for Greek parliament in the September elections, as he no longer believes in what Syriza and its leader, Tsipras, are doing.
‘The party that I served and the leader that I served has decided to change course completely and to espouse an economic policy that makes absolutely no sense, which was imposed upon us.
I don’t believe that we should have signed up to it, simply because within a few months the ship is going to hit the rocks again. And we don’t have the right to stand in front of our courageous people who voted no against this program, and propose to them that we implement it, given that we know that it cannot be implemented.”
Varoufakis indirectly described Alexis Tsipras as a ‘fool’ saying that Tsipras was like mythical Sisyphus “carrying on pushing the same rock of austerity up the hill, against the laws of economics and against very profound ethical principles.” He added “as a child I considered Sisyphus a fool. I would have simply stopped pushing the rock.”
He expressed sympathy for the SYRIZA rebels of Panagiotis Lafazanis and the Popular Unity, but he added that he fundamentally disagrees with their ‘isolationist’ stance of desiring a return to the drachma.
"Instead of becoming engaged in an election campaign which in my mind is quite sad and fruitless, I’m going to be remain politically active—maybe more active than I have been so far—at the European level, trying to establish a European network.”
He criticized the bloc formations of national parties within the European Parliament and stressed that “this model doesn’t work anymore.”
“I think we should try to aim for a European network that at some point evolves into a pan-European party.”
Full interview text & audio here
PS Wise decision, Yanis, to initiate a European spring. As for Varoufakis’ fans they now know who will vote for in the next European Parliament elections.
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Used to like the guy.
But not anymore.
This guy had no plan other than more debt when he 'negotiated' with the troika.
His 15 minutes is up, time to go get a real job.
More debt to solve a debt problem leads to collapse.
He an agent of chaos to restructure Europe.
Goal: centally controlled Europe for the corporatists.
He'll be as successful as Rick Perry!
"... So the first rather chilling thing I’ve learned, from well-placed bankers, is there have been no conversations between the Bank of Greece, the government or regulators and Greece’s commercial banks about the technicalities of leaving the euro and adopting a new currency.
This is astonishing – and some would say pretty close to criminal – given that on Wednesday night the president of the European Union, former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, was explicit that this weekend’s negotiations were all about whether Greece would stay in the eurozone. ..."
Read more: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/greece-has-made-no-preparation-for-a-grexit.html
I'm polish and Tusk is a fucking tool...a real fucking tool of the elites. His price isn't very high either, but that's true for most politicians
And this from the guy who said he is not a politician?
Good luck to him.
Maybe it take a non-politician to drag people out of the swill created by the politicians, technocrats and corporate financial gluttons.
This is the Krugman - Varoufakis - Keynesian- man - boy - love club. Spend your way to happiness and prosperity for all.
No its not. Varafoukas is the last Vietnamese guy hanging onto the skid of the already overloaded last helo to leave US Hanoi. He doesn't give a rat's ass about those on board.
Welcome to the real world.
if not successful in academia he would be great in Late night comedy.
Pan-European Anti-Austerity Party, Social Democrats, Labor Party, Democrat Party...what's the difference?
Throw in the myriad of world Conservative parties and sundry Communist, Nationalist and Islamo-Fascist outfits...
Do ANY of them have a lick of sense? No. The first group is just merely the most batshit insane, and that's about it.
Varoufakis is pursuing the globalist agenda. His brand of globalized socialism does not help workers it enslaves them.
It might just work. Greeks will vote for him again, since he promises that their german "partners" in the EC will have to finance Greece.
To be fair, he wanted a haircut all the time, which is absolutely necessary.
Only, he should have manned up at the end and gone all the way.
Instead he chickened out and rode off on his fucking motorcycle.
forced out
by Germans
This guy was about the only one in the party who had a bloody clue financially what was going on and that's why they got him kicked out of the negotiations. They'd better watch out in the EU ivory tower.........this guy may storm the castle faster than Trump at the polls.
Interestingly as well, his views also serve the NWO, given he has always promoted further EU integration rather than adopt a nationalist stance. His goal has always been a reformation of the EU, which to me is just another tactic in order to achieve the fiscal union they could never achieve at the ballot box.
good call---nwo rise of the proletariat +1
I agree about the first part, but oppose to the thought of V-fakis conquering some tower in Belgium...
The EU Leviathan doesn't really work with checks and balances. EP(arliament)'s role is mostly as a forum with lower legislative powers, although it has the final word on the EU budget. Even so, it's impossible to match the powers of the Council and especially of the Commission (technocrats). The most V can hope to win in Brussels (if he playes by his master's notes) is a leather chair and fatter bank account - precisely what every socialist like V (without a day of honest work) dreams of.
It's just a figure of speech. Politicians get elected on hope and whether he is the most communistic/facist thinker out there, anyone selling the idea of going against austerity (strip mining your economy) will be welcomed with open arms at the polls. Just look at what Trump is doing in the US, same idea there too (ie running on anti career politician). EU wants to run without checks and balances because then there's no way for people to revolt against the system peacefully........that's also why you've been hearing that the EU needs a military force too not surprisingly, it's not for keeping Russia in check I can promise you that.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/jean-claude-juncker-calls-f...
Not in the party, in the government. The party has a few good economists (e.g., Lapavitsas) but Tsipras and his court ignored them all and created this monumental mess.
The Roll-Over Party?
http://www.denk-bubbles.com/greece/
stay out of small planes, pal.
No one will take this guy out. He's a worthless, useless political commie. He poses to threat to the system
Edit: [no] threat...
By the number of junking I'm receiving, even Zerohedge is filled with stupid sheep that still believe in Government...because that's what this Fakis guy represents...MOAR authoritarian control.
I didnt junk you fwiw and I hear what you're saying.
But - take Michael Hastings. That guy wasn;t really any threat either.
But the type of journalist he was - was.
A trans-European party of Europeans {you know - "white people" who are "racist" if they opposed demographic replacement advocated by Left wing idiots, bankers, globalists, and Talmudic Jews -who believe all non-Jewish races will merge and be ruled by the Jews}
opposing the destruction of European nations and nation states - even the idea of it - highlights the fact that what is being done to Europe is not being done FOR Europe or out of the will of the people there.
As for "still believe in governnment" - turn that shit down a notch.
I want people putting out fires and guarding prisoners. The anarchy shit should have stopped fascinating you around the time you first blew a load in a comely lass of virtue true.
I didn't know a country couldn't put out fires and guard prisoners without an acting government. That's what I like most with ZH - one gets to learn something new every day... <sarcoff>
It's funny to see how the nationalist, statist types attack him for "abandoning Greece" when he has been in full support of the EU the entire time (albeit an altered EU).
LOL
Socialists can gtfo.
Dide can't even afford a hair implant.
Dumb ass. I know the biggest holder of RE in your neighborhood. Like Trump, he develops property. When his boys were growing up he drove a beat up Toyota pickup. To best carry the kids' stuff. Though he is the biggest account and holder of the bank he uses, he also went into the bank branch in street gear, just like you and I, every month, to payroll his crews. Except for the Rolex. One does not draw fire, n'est c'pas?
I have a hero. I want to be that bulletproof guy, who could dictate his world that well.
Phucking Traitor!
QE benefits have gone only to the rich while a severe austerity has been imposed on the middle class and the poor. In the land of the free, the 0.1% now have more wealth than the bottom 90%.
It's time to get rid of the banksters that serve only the rich.
The Fed Won: America's 0.1% Are Now Wealthier Than The Bottom 90%http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-11/fed-won-americas-01-are-now-wea...
This fella loves the sound of his own voice. His nickname should be "The Ego."
Their symbol will look like that Right Wing Ukraine party, except instead of 3 Yellow fingers there will just be 1.
FUCK YOU EU !!!
People give Fakis too much credit.
Fakis' purpose is to make it all about negociations on 'how much' austerity and other BS distraction topics, while false flag war and central banking fiat crimes against humanity continue unquestioned and unchecked.
He is a revolting motherfucker, trying to portray himself as the peoples' friend. Bleaurghhh!
Man, the Brits have never been richer. 1 in 65 adults is now a millionaire.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-65-adults-britain-now-153204169.html
If eurozone got the right people at the helm, they'd catch up in no time.
Instead that piker Draghi is printing only trillions.
Maybe this new party will actually accomplish some things... unlike the "oil-soaked, spy-riddled" (Skolnick) TEA PARTY that signs off on every major spending bill and war funding bill that comes down the pike.
The TEA PARTY didn't sign off on those bills. The Republican Party did that. The Tea Party and The Republican party are NOT synonymous.
(More and more so every day!)
Liar!
The majority of TEA PARTY FAKES signed off on Obama's 2009 War Funding package.
Key words there are 'TEA PARTY FAKES'.
He's no Trump. Trump makes the media his bitch.
Trump needs to reach the non-English speaking media. They are all veni, vidi, vicious, dishonest, guileless pawns who bought into the bread and circuses promises of their ceasars to this day, much like our msm whores. Only much more obvious, criminal and vicious. Pravda del Sur. Translate the MSNBC & CNN espanol versions for a sample of the light version.
I don't judge whether Fox is right or CNN is left. If you're working to the protocols, procedures and policies of State censors, you're shit. They only degrade themselves further from there... I don't get any news from them. I have my own news system I worked out over my life. It worked well when I was young. Now I'm old. It still works.
I like consistency.
This asshole will not sacrifice any part of his lifestyle.
Just as bad as the EU fucks who dine and stay in 5 star hotels while discussing "austerity" for everyone else.
Yes, also known as "Jews".
There are no "jews", just Jewes. The Ones. Lately, the most experimented on Ones.
Peel the onion of propaganda. Every layer will make your I smart. Dogmatic religion is a veil, within which heinous crimes are perpetrated by pure criminal psychopaths, in the name of some mystical, fraudulent diety. Your learned virtue is your weakness. You are set up by the frauds who crafted you this way, when you were children. Satanism was created by the oligarchs & their religio-msm to keep the virtuous (profane do-gooders like me) from prying into their schemes. State politics is a veil, within which heinous crimes are perpetrated by pure criminal psychopaths, in your name. Coppertop.
Behind every exoteric crime are a plethora of esoteric crimes. They bullshit all of us. They bullshit each other. They bullshit themselves. All because they fear Neo. The Herod class so fear the John Galts that they set traps for us from kindergarten. They know they are not the best. This shit will persist only as long as they can kill or neutralize the messianic ones.
This life is a test. The Catholic reason for this is that God gave us free will and we - you and I, not THEM, fucked it up. All that sucks is our fault. All that is good is their God's gift. Bwahahahaha
Death is your teacher, because you listen to no other. When you meet death, do not run to the men in skirts to help you understand. Thats not what they're there for. Nobody teaches anybody anything. You must learn what you can. You teach yourself.
I'm on my side. You're on your own.
And... DUCK!
Damn U R on a Roll, have you been reading poetry as well?
Anyway, good word usages, good pathos.
My friend Abbie has a lot of friends. Without number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XiBU8geK08
I miss him.
http://www.amazon.com/Steal-This-Book-Abbie-Hoffman/dp/156858217
Why doesn't he just call it the "Pan European Let's Be Socialist Bitchez! party?"
Oh look - another new division formed for the Free Shit Army!
So he wants to be a European politician? With the fat check and all?
He needs a catch phrase a symbol of freedom and Hope as well as a uniform. May I offer my ideas.
https://hipmonkey.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/we-the-sheeple.jpg
http://news.ourworldbuzz.com/uploads/2/4/2/0/2420956/4554525_orig.png
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/312%2BZf-1o8L._SY300_.jpg
Paging Dr. Krugman!
Maybe Yani can provide a political outlet for the Warrens/Sanders/Keynsians/marxists. Give 'em a home, a little place of their own.
No Austerity either means No Euro or it means nothing.
Quick, get murderer McCain over to spout righteousness and democracy while pointing out where the bombs should fall...
Mr. V -- too legit to quit.
What is the Greek word for "nail gun" ?
Popacapinus?
The Trump of Europe--false-candidacy, and fake message to foster more division in the people.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
He wants two things -
1. Write off current Greek debt - only an idiot would have loaned Greece money in the first place - so it is the creditors fault.
2. Give new loans to Greece so they can continue to live the exact same way they did before - which is a part of the reason they are so fucked now.
Repeat - repeat - repeat - repeat ....................................................
Instead of studying Game Theory the vain egghead should have listened attentively to Kenny Rogers a couple of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4 then these crooks in Brussels might have not been able to call his bluff so easily.
The fiscal fantasy guy, he got paid a % of the debt that his government dumped on its citizens, he's a sub-prime mortgage broker posing as a representative., like Jeb! Bush.
No austerity - and no balancing of the budget.
Now that's a policy that leads to ... starvation, murder, complete collapse. First they screw some unlikeable oversee lenders, than they have to find new victims to finance runaway spending, eventually those run out of assets to seize - find new victims, when those run out - find new victims, etc. All the while participants of this movement get more and more accustomed to predation and entrenched in this position. Until they're literally eating themselves.
Greece should very well repudiate EU debt, but on the same day make incurring any new government debt illegal. Just spend what you actually have, bend your scheme to reality instead of trying to bend reality to the scheme.
why would anyone follow this loser? What ego on this guy
Fwd Soviet
Tsipras is a clown!!! Varoufakis was threaten BY THE IMF/ECB mafia's to resign .. I thought he was Greece only hope,I commentated a long time ago as the Tylers and Nigel farage actually like this guy tough stand vs Banksters.. Tsipras should be thrown in jail along with all the politicians in Greece...If you ever wanted to know what big governments looks like, look no further then at Greece today... No Democracy, votes don't mean shit!!!! Slaves to the politicians and can only withdrawal certain amount of money from your own account!!! Bend Over and take it up the tailpipe is left??? Old people of Greece leave this planet in BLAZE OF GLORY you have nothing to lose you already lost everything!! sad to say that because I have family over there...AT least give the young generation a chance for a better tomorrow!!!!!!