Europe Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

8 Europe quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

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Varoufakis offers a handful of pointed thoughts on Europe, each one reflecting his distinctive economic perspective.

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The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

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Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization…

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European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners…

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“He knew that the eurozone’s economic policies were not just atrocious for Greece but terrible for Europe and, by extension, for the…

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“German officials knew it in 1964, as they knew it in 1992: for the French elites, a common currency with Germany was…

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“Observing the European Union’s attempts to deal with the crisis is a bit like watching Othello – one wonders how our rulers…

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“Greece was merely the laboratory where these failed policies were being tested and developed before their implementation everywhere across Europe.”

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Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

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“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece was never…

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“Larry Summers is one such rare insider. His question to me was in fact an invocation to reject the lure of the outside. Underpinning…

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The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why…

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“If you cannot imagine walking out of a negotiation, you should never enter it. If you cannot fathom the idea of an impasse you…

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Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned…

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The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

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We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

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“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at…

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Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the…

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I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

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“Whenever a politician in the know gives a journalist an exclusive in exchange for a particular spin that is in the politician’s interest, the…

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European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern…

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“When inordinate weight is loaded onto a flimsily constructed bridge, the weakest beam will break first.”

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“Most Europeans like to think that American bankruptocracy is worse than its European cousin, thanks to the power of Wall Street and the infamous…

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“Austerity is a morality play pressed into the service of legitimizing cynical wealth transfers from the have-nots to the haves during times of crisis,…

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