{"id":296956,"date":"2025-06-23T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=296956"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:19:56","slug":"yanis-varoufakis-europe-has-become-a-war-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/06\/yanis-varoufakis-europe-has-become-a-war-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanis Varoufakis: Europe Has Become a War Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11 Jun 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Yesterday, DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis delivered a powerful, unflinching speech at the European Parliament \u2014 a direct challenge to the EU\u2019s transformation from a peace project into what he now calls a fully-fledged war machine. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">At an event hosted by The Left in the European Parliament and M5S Europa, and joined by Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte, Varoufakis made the case that Europe\u2019s military Keynesianism is not only deepening inequality and debt but also locking the continent into permanent conflict. He lays bare the EU\u2019s structural dependence on the United States, its complicity in the war in Gaza, and the growing alliance between liberal authoritarianism and the xenophobic far-right, and argues that the economic foundation for peace begins with ending Europe\u2019s submission to U.S. deficits and reimagining a sovereign, democratic, green Europe. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe EU is now a War Project \u2013 a project that will either land us in permanent war, or bankrupt us further. Or both.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yanis Varoufakis: Europe Has Become a War Project | Explosive EU Parliament Speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tP5251QF6og?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Yanis Varoufakis, a member of the Greek Parliament and<\/em> <em>a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 Party,<\/em> <em>professor of economics at the University of Athens, and co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement). He is the author of \u2018<\/em>And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe\u2019s Crisis and America\u2019s Economic Future\u2019; \u2018<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/adults-in-the-room-my-battle-with-the-european-and-american-deep-establishment\/9780374538057\" >Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment<\/a><\/span>\u2019;<em> and, most recently, the novel<\/em> \u2018<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/another-now\/9781612199573\" >Another Now<\/a><\/span><em>\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Jun 2025 &#8211; At an event hosted by The Left in the European Parliament and M5S Europa, and joined by Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte, Varoufakis made the case that Europe\u2019s military Keynesianism is not only deepening inequality and debt but also locking the continent into permanent conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[3143,2642,433,1268,70,1594,481],"class_list":["post-296956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-anti-hegemony","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296957,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296956\/revisions\/296957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}