Yanis Varoufakis
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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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This is why I even had support from, in this country, Norman Lamont, the Adam Smith Institute.
Were you not ashamed of this?
I'm not at all ashamed of it because it was the right thing to do.
The right thing to do was to say, look, we are sinful, you know,
Not all of the Greeks, right?
But the Greek quality together.
We've already suffered because you have to remember already that by the time I entered government in 2015, Greek wages had gone down by 44%, pensions by 42%.
My university budget had gone down from, I'm not going to give you the full number, from 52 to 3.
So effectively, we couldn't even afford toilet paper.
Hospitals were shutting down.
So it's not a question of who should take the pain.
The Greek people had taken the pain already.
What I was mandated to do is to stop causing more damage, not just to the Greeks, but to the Europeans as well, because these credit cards were being paid by the working classes in Germany, in Slovakia, in Slovenia.
And these people were getting really very angry because they didn't know what they were paying for.
And one final thing, Rory, you mentioned the populist series of governments.
Look, I was never a member of that party.
Why?
Because I didn't believe in them.
Because in September of 2014, that is four months before I became their finance minister, they came out with their economic manifesto.
And I wrote an op-ed
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