The European Union’s top General Court denied access to a European Central Bank (ECB) document which underpinned its decision to freeze vital funding to Greek banks in 2015, that resulted in forcing Athens to impose capital controls. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and German left-wing parliamentarian Fabio De Masi(Die …

Pamela Anderson, former Baywatch star, has criticized Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for ignoring people’s will during the famous Greek referendum of 2015 and declared to be a fan of Yanis Varoufakis And she has learned a Greek word with a powerful meaning: OXI – No. “I admire the Greek people …

The enfant terrible of euro-economics and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis reloaded his gun and shot: Profits from the European Central Bank should be used for a European Poverty Fund. Speaking at an event of his party DiEM25 in Thessaloniki, he said about the “New Deal in Europe and …

Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis claimed on Monday that it was billionaire George Soros who demanded that he was sacked from the Greek government in 2015. In an interview with private Skai TV, the former minister and founder of DiEM25 said George Soros phoned Alexis Tsipras in July 2015 and …

A nationalist and quasi-fascist force is rising up in Europe, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has warned. In an exclusive interview with Euronews’ new Raw Politics programme, he said the continent was heading for a return to 1930s fascism. “We are going to unleash demonic political forces that will …

“Greece was never bailed out – it remains a debtor’s prison and the EU won’t let go of the keys,” writes former SYRIZA finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on the occasion of creditors and the Greke government to have cheered the exit from bailout. Punitive conditions attached to the ‘rescue’ package …

As Greece leaves the three-year bailout program, former financial minister Yanis Varoufakis came up with a radical solution. He reportedly urged Athens to ditch the euro and return to drachma. In an article with the title “Ditch the euro and bring back the drachma” the Times quoted Varoufakis as saying …

Controversial Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis proposes that Greece exploits hydrocarbon reserves with half the Middle East as well as with Turkey. In an article posted on daily Efimerida Ton Syntakton, the former finance minister sees the share of hydrocarbon reserves as an opportunity for peace in the region. jointly exploiting …

Former finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he targets the office of the prime minister at the next elections in Greece. In an interview with TRT World, Varoufakis said he will run for prime minister in the country’s next general elections. TRT World’s Imran Garda spoke to the anti-austerity campaigner at length …

Greek former finance minister and anti-austerity maverick Yanis Varoufakis on Monday launched a new party. This is part of a movement in several European countries to contest EU elections next year. Pledging to “bring realistic hope” to Greece, Varoufakis said the grassroots pro-European movement is composed of “people of the …

Former finance minister and controversial political figure Yanis Varoufakis revealed the name of the political party with which the pan-European movement DiEM25 will contest elections in Greece. And the name of DiEM25’s Greek political party is…. We have white smoke! DiEM25’s members overwhelmingly approved the name of our new Greek …

Former SYRIZA finance minister Yanis Varoufakis announced that he will present his political party in Greece in two months from now, on March 26th. The new party will be related to his pan-European movement DiEM25. Varoufakis made the announcement on Twitter on the occasion of 3 years of  his former …

Controversial former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on Friday again lashed out at his former comrades in the first Tsipras government over the first half of 2015.  Speaking on an Athens radio station, Varoufakis was again scathing in his criticism of Tsipras and his successor at the finance ministry, Euclid …

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and German left-wing parliamentarian Fabio De Masi (Die Linke) are suing the European Central Bank to gain access to a document underpinning the ECB’s decision to freeze vital funding to Greek banks in 2015 that resulted in forcing Athens to impose cpaital controls. That …

Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis revealed that he will run in the next parliamentary elections in Greece. Speaking to private ANT1 TV magazine Kalimera Ellada, Varoufakis said that his pan-European party Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) will held a conference in Greece in order to prepare for the new …

Famous film director Costas Gavras plans to bring the book of Yanis Varoufakis’ “Adults in the Room” to the big screen. Gavras who is famous for his political films said in a letter to the former finance minister that he felt inspired to turn the book into a film as …

In the Greek edition of his book “Adults in the Room,” Yanis Varoufakis made new revelations for his term in Finance Ministry in 2015. According to introduction of the book, Varoufakis’ wife, Danae Stratou videotaped telephone conversations he had at that time. “In a book where so much depends on …

Monday evening in Patras. One day after the German elections. Scenarios about the removal of Wolfgang Schaeuble from the finance ministry circulate in full speed. Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks in front of an audience that came at an event organized by the pan-European political movement he had founded, …

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi touted the idea of a currency parallel to the Euro. The European Commission shot the proposal down right away. However, the former Prime Minister could be a strong card in the next elections May 2018. According to Berlusconi’s plan, the parallel currency would be …

Yanis Varoufakis keeps up with the good work and his revelations about the crucial negotiations with the European lenders in the first half of 2015. In an interview with Sunday newspaper Proto Thema, the former finance minister revealed that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was considering the accept Schaeuble’s plan about …