Yanis Varoufakis: 'The European project is already finished’

“Is the European project… ultimately doomed do you think?”

“Absolutely. It’s already doomed, it’s already finished”.

Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, says the “repeated failure of the European powers” to utilise opportunities to create common policies has resulted in a failed union which is “essentially reproducing misery”.

[SimonBrady-ik]

He speaks a lot of sense, This guy. If he was not Greek he would be respected and listened to more.

[RobertThomson-ym]

The Greeks were terribly treated by the French and Germans.

[andyash]

"I don't harbour great expectations for the Starmer government."
🤣😭

[tapwater]

Yanis U are wasting your valued breath. Those with eyes shall see and those with ears shall hear. People refuse to see danger even when U bring it to their door step

[ivyking]

Keep talking Yanis, you'll find it more difficult to change the world than it is to change Greece.

[hydra]

He's saying what people don't want to hear. The EU as a "project" was always a half-assed United States of Europe, and unlike the United States which recognized its initial Articles of Confederation didn't work, the EU chugs on because any criticisms are LALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU. If you actually want a strong EU, you should take the criticism and maybe act on it.

[Youtubechannel-pocz]

Europe is too diverse for a Federal European state. As we’ve seen when a few ideological elites try to force their idea of democracy and it has failed.

[dinkeydink]

Austerity for Greece.
Free Money for Italy, Spain & the rest.
The Trojka in Bryssel totally ruined Greece forever.

[mickeysmouse]

He’s been saying this for at least 10 years. 😂

[nelm]

Europe was better before the EU the very least, it was more European than it is now.

[coliniveson]

Read many of the comments and I am shocked. Hate to ruin your dreams of EU perfection but he is right about so much especially economic models of Germany and France.

[tomtom]

Most Europeans don’t want to be governed by a superstate from Brussels. Common debts and taxation from Brussels would be horrible.

[RazorMouth]

I used to like him but hes just, a pay-for-waffle at this stage. Completely irrelevant.

[IanDavies-gymg]

He's a bit bitter, isn't he?

[cpboba]

Whenever I feel slightly positive, I come to Yanis on Youtube and I spit negativity out of every hole in my body. It's fantastic and helps much against persistent constipation. Continental europe will be fine though, it has been through a lot of the centuries and has always survived. It has culture and ideology to fall back on: working hard for money to stay alive.

[charlesbeaudry]

Reminds me of what Marc Twain said. "THE RUMOURS OF MY DEMISE ARE EXAGERATED". Easy to say Europe is dead. My friends are always predicting the end of the financial world but even broken clocks tell the right time twice a day.

[chriscantplay...]

Hearing normal people dismissed as "xenophobic, racist, ultra-right" feels very 2016 and just shows how the political class still haven't listened to a word we are saying.

[sotcat]

I'm Greek. He says these nonsense since 2011-2012 😂😂😂. The man who placed the grave stone 🪨 on Greek economy in 2014-2015.

[Tridhos]

"The EU has failed" and yet every European country is trying to get into it. This guy cannot accept that Greece was a basket case and expected Germany to bail it out on a permanent basis. They were just not collecting taxes and yet paying out generous pensions.

[mattgordon]

Victim hood. Love the Greece people but they never moved on from the post war period and were to relaxed about collection for one.