Yanis Varoufakis
speaker
1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Suppose, Rory, that in the year 1999, the year 2000, when our social democrats
ushered us into the euro.
They had decided that, no, it's not a good idea.
Let's not do that.
If they had kept us out of the euro, the Greek crisis would never have taken place.
The euro is responsible for it.
Why?
Because up until the year 2000, Greece was a meddling, quasi-corrupt, quasi-inefficient state, country, political economy.
The Greek trachma was constantly falling, but gradually vis-a-vis the Deutsche Mark, the British pound, reflecting the lack of competitiveness of the Greek economy.
But these gradual devaluations restored the competitiveness of Greek tourism, of Greek olive oil, and so on and so forth.
So it was manageable.
It was a kind of steady state equilibrium of...
relative backwardness.
So who wanted Greece inside the Euro?
Oh, this is a big story because there are many different kinds of interests that were in favor of that.
It wasn't just one force.
But let me complete what happened was the moment we entered the Euro, it was game over.
And I'll tell you when I realized that.
I realized it was 1998.
I was in an airplane flying from Frankfurt to New York.
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