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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You know, you do this if you want to destroy a continent.
This is what we did.
And they know that.
They know that, Alistair.
They being?
Being, you know, the smart people, like Christian Lagarde, right?
I mean…
People, journalists in 2015 and beyond, whenever they interviewed me, they said, Mr. Varoufakis, now, how could it be that everybody's wrong and you're right?
And the answer I gave them is, look, folks, if I went into these rooms with Christine Lagarde, Mario Draghi, Wolfgang Schäuble, Merkel and so on, and they said to me that I was wrong.
I would look at myself in the mirror and start worrying, why am I wrong?
Where am I wrong?
I would be utterly, utterly unconfident, the opposite of confident about my position.
But Alistair, none of them told me I'm wrong.
Christine Lagarde said I was completely right,
Mario Draghi believes also that it was a mistake to have a common currency without a common treasury.
He's come up with a Draghi report, which is now saying things I was saying 10 years ago, almost to the last number.
They're still not being done.
Well, because now he's, you know, it's...
Everyone who leaves office can then become a social democrat and a new dealer, right?
But not while they're in office.
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