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Yanis VaroufakisProject Syndicate |
ATHENS – Donald Trump is as sincere as he is capable of being in his determination to eliminate the US trade deficit. But the US trade deficit is...
ATHENS – When the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum yielded its unexpected result in 2016, the European Commission enlisted three men to ensure...
ATHENS – When the euro crisis was young, some of us became convinced that a massive public green investment program was necessary to save Europe...
ATHENS – The recent riots in the United Kingdom have demonstrated, yet again, the inability of liberals and leftists to figure out how to appeal to...
ATHENS – France’s political impasse reflects an economic conundrum that is insoluble under the present European construction. After four years of...
ATHENS – Confident elites reflect viable regimes. Today, elites on both sides of the Atlantic are anything but confident. For the past year, they...
ATHENS – Recognizing a Palestinian state is the moral thing to do and the only way to achieve a just peace in the Middle East. To convince the next...
ATHENS – Three weeks ago, I was banned from entering Germany. When I asked the German authorities who decided this, when, and under what rationale,...
ATHENS – Europe has become unrecognizable. Advocates of European unity used to celebrate the European Union as a peace project pitting a splendid...
When robots began stealing jobs from humans, it was easy to panic and call for some sort of tax by which to restore the humans’ competitiveness. In...
ATHENS – Economics has an intractable “women problem.” High-school girls avoid it. Female undergraduates abandon it. And the problem runs deeper...
ATHENS – Of all European politicians who never led their countries, Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble had the greatest impact on Europe. Between...
ATHENS – On the December 7, the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission, Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen,...