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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The next day in which I invoked your own Churchill saying that the only thing we have the right to offer the Greek people is blood, sweat, and tears, not populist promises that we're going to painlessly solve all their problems.
And I thought that my relationship with that party was finished.
Because I was invoked, that article was invoked by the center-right government at the time.
They said to Tsipras, the opposition leader at the time, oh, even your own Varoufakis is piling up on your economic manifesto.
But it was only...
Two, three months later that I was summoned and I was told that I was right and, you know, we will write the economic policy from scratch.
And the only promise I went into that election with was that we will end this constant folly of taking more credit cards to repay unpayable debts.
What the Greek people said is we're rejecting the new credit card.
That's right.
But then you resigned.
Of course I resigned because the Greek people agreed with me and my prime minister overthrew the Greek people.
To begin with, I agree entirely with your depiction.
This is what we do.
But this is what also the right does.
I mean, the right and the left and the other right, they're all populists in the end, you know?
I mean, you know, Farage says, elect me, I will get rid of the foreigners and all your problems will be fixed, which is a tragic statement.
The radical center used to say that, you know, as long as we deregulate and privatize, everything is going to be great.
And the left comes up with...
simplistic solutions like Syriza did in 2014.
I'm not terribly popular with any of these political groupings, including on the left, because I keep saying things like, for instance, you know, I'm all for wealth taxes for symbolic reasons.
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