Yanis Varoufakis: "As Greece was burning, where was the EU? They only come to impose austerity."
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2021
- Yanis Varoufakis on the EU's inaction as fires ravaged through Greece in the summer of 2021.
Yanis Varoufakis is the leader of MeRA25 [DiEM25's Greek political party] and DiEM25 co-founder.
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People are beginning to see what the whole EU project is about - power and wealth for the very few.
Always victimizing this man. I’m sure he has never worked in his life
Say that twice for your... usa, your EX watch dog of europe, uk, and your PREMADE, CROOKS agents like baroufakis here...
I'm so sad because I have to agree with you. The EU is not really a community but a conglomerate of national ecomic interests.
Each of our own finance ministers from each member state.
I can't express the embarrassment that Paschal Donohoe gives off, being handed title "president of the Eurozone".
It runs as cartel. From wiki: A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. Cartels are usually associations in the same sphere of business, and thus an alliance of rivals. Whats that if not EU, heh? Other powers, not that EU is "power", at least steal from non-member states. EU is the only cartel that rob its own state members.
How can you agree with a person that sold out his people
When he and his partners disrespected the vote of the Greek people who wanted out of Europe
Instead they kept them in and now he’s saying where is Europe lol
Please he’s another sell out
The banksters 🏦
It's not national and the governing body doesn't even like the word 'national' is a group of unelected bureaucrats who wants to hold the entire Europe under their thumb.
Im so glad you have the courage to speak out. Thank you
Are you serious
The people of Greece wanted out of Europe and they got a 61% vote
But your good man Yiani and Tsipras kept them in
Now he’s asking where is Europe right exactly where they been the last 71 years sucking the blood from the Greeks
Yanis didn't betray the greek people he did everything he could to keep his promise, Tsipras made a deal behind his back and Yanis had the courage to become a whistleblower at great cost to himself.
@@zantecarroll4448 Yanis declared boldly to the Greek people that he will not follow Tsipras decision to stay in. He shouldn't leave Tsipras though on his own with the EU negotiations. Yanis put his personal ambitions first, above the nation's future.There's no excuse about this.
@@epidemicrochip3033 how did he put his ambitions first by refusing to sign the agreement? You think he shouldn't have resigned when Tsipras made a deal behind his back with the eu?
He's blatantly lying, though.
Thanks Yanis. I'm sorry about your country. ... it is all about money
No, it isn't. Greece did not request help for the first 6 days. Many countries were ready to help. but eventually, you aren't going to send help to an area, if it isn't wanted.
Put your.. "pity" up ur arse, agglosaxon. AGENTS of your countries (uk, usa) like baroufakis we paid and went bankrupt. EU and its loans came second, after "men" like mr baroufakis "mentors" forced Greece to do uk, usa 's bidding and of course...for FREE.
No it's about power.
@@vasilykatuma5689 Your name says it all.
It IS all about money.
It IS all about power.
It IS all about World control.
It IS all about the "Great Reset."
It IS all about the few controlling it all.
Serbia is always with greek people!
Грци имају другу браћу, не треба се лагати. Али их мучи оно што су отели! Није то много, само култура и историја.
Yeah right, how did you help? Just empty slogans don't count as help.
Solidarity between all Balkan countries. We face the same problems and same enemies...
To Aleta girl, we sent helicopters and other aid in agreement with the greek government which is more than your beloved EU did.
@@nikoladin156 EU sent billions to Greece. Stop listening to Russian propaganda.
I am Dutch and told this my loved ones a view weeks ago.
I support you, and it upsets me to see how corrupted this whole EU thing is.
Bullshit let me see a country of a land of a continent that's not corruption i a kind of form. After ww2 Europa is becoming stronger and stronger thx to all European countries. I happy with the possibility Europa give me
@@ChrisMcCandless77777 well celebrate! I am happy that there are still people who are happy.
@@suusje004 you have 1 million opportunities in europe it's up to you to make the most of it, if you think it's not going well move to Africa or Asia or America I'm sure you'll be back in this Europe of opportunities very soon. Have a nice day
@nicos frangeskou Cyprus is a tax paradise there stole money from other countries, it is more right that they should be punished for this. everyone should pay taxes and there should be no free haven for billions to earn and not want to pay taxes for it but only get richer and richer on the backs of other people if you don'tunderstand its your problem, i suggest Dude just wake up from your dream world and be welcome in the real world
@nicos frangeskou what nonsense you have election if you don't want her choose someone else that's how it works in the world. and if she wins the elections, she can decide that's how it works
When the going gets tough, the bean counters are nowhere to be found.
European Union in Brussels is a political cartel of super rich oligarchs and predatory capitalists (same as OPEC cartel in Saudi Arabia) who give a crap about our environment, global security, economic inequality and future of our planet earth.
What they care about is the maximum profits and dividends of their Corporations.
Poor Greece receives Billions from Brussels every year, where is the money and why do half of Orthodox greeks dont pay their taxes ???
Those 'billions' reach Greece as much Monopoly money pay your rent. The second question is much more creative i give you that. Maybe they resolve taxes by using the Holy Trinity application?
Didier Lemoni. The money LOANED to Greece is used to pay the interest on previous monies LOANED to Greece. Very little if not nothing goes to the ordinary Greek citizen who is left to pay off the overseas TOXIC debts incurred by the German, French and other foreign banks based in Greece. But I must say you sound like a middle aged frustrated woman whose receives little attention from the opposite sex. Go sort out your own personal problems first before making such ignorant and inane comments.
@Ender95 ED My friend you are dreaming,. Greece got shafted by the foreign banks operating in the country, there are no reserves and most of the money making assets have been sold. The welfare that you suggest be reduced, has been cut at least 13 times in the preceding years and there is a mass exodus of the countries university graduates. A fifty billion dollar debt, has with compounding interest, risen to $500,000,000,000 or $50,000 per individual.Lets not mention the unemployment figures. However thanks for you suggestions and concern. .
I'm very sorry about what the Greek people are experiencing in their beautiful country and will always stand with you all.
I agree !
Your digital solidarity feels good, but im gonna wait for the analog one, just in case!
How many of these fires are caused by Greek arsonists themselves?!
- Introduce death penalty for arsonists and make the 2,000 super wealthy Greek tax dodging families with their money on foreign accounts pay first. If these rich Greeks don’t care for Greece, why then should foreigners?
Varoufakis never addresses them, no, only the EU is to blame.
Greeks experience exactly what they set up themselves for to experience!
@@user-kb8fn2ot2z Make sure you polish your charity plate as you lick it! Pathetic!
Romanian firefighters came to help and they risked their lives there. I don’t think they would have come if there wasn’t the Eu.
they would
@@kirikaskirikas3972 How? Would borders suddenly open up?
It's only possible with freedom of movement. Or by the time Greece would open its borders up to a 3rd country for fire assistance the fires would have already burnt out.
@@SimplyVanis @Latvanis Ukraine is not in the EU Russia is not so they magically came somehow. Norway is also not in the EU so your argument is silly. Israel Egypt etc also. anyway stop being silly
@Gordon Brown Day one?...
Lol. Surely Greece is responsible for its own fires??
...or maybe European tourists?
Where was the Greek government in first place?????
Where was Yanis Varoufakis when his country needed him most in 2015? When things got difficult, threw a tantrum and quit.
This here is pure populism. Srong words and blame everyone else. But if given the chance to make a different it would all fall apart.
Well, Greece has screwed EU since they joined in 1981. They are in it only for the money transferred to them from the EU budget. Whenever there is a problem, they expect EU to solve it for them. The rest of EU is completely fed up now. That is why the party is over for Greece.
which is your country henrik
and at that: it is heartbreaking to see the devestation, loss of lives, homes and nature all around the world
When Germany was flooded, where was Greece?
Years ago I visited several Greek Islands and loved both the history and the culture. Something the EU bureaucrats don't seem to respect
What that has to do with the wildfires that were caused by a multitude of reasons like extremely poor forest management (non-existent would describe it best), inactive citizenry, incompetent local bureaucrats and services. We can blame God himself for not intervening but the bitter truth is that if locals don’t do the right job, nobody will.
@@C_R_O_M________ if you know who Yanis is, what he did for Greece and are familiar with his book "Adults in the Room" then you'll understand my expression of solidarity
@@chrisgadsby5700 I know exactly who Yianis is (note 1 “n” instead of the usual 2 “n’s”) and I wouldn’t trust him to deliver a letter for me.
You got help! Romanian firefighters and equipment were sent as help to fight the fire in Greece. I know you got help from many other EU countries
Polish too
You didn't listen.
@@bertiescunsbutch9323 You are right, I didn’t. I know Varoufakis inside out! I don’t have to listen! He is full of it! All the way! As a professional politician he advertises himself as some sort of political solution but he never promotes self-development. He promotes politics. His own TREADE! Don’t forget he is a PROFESSIONAL! He will never talk about the things YOU CAN DO to locally improve your conditions and solve your problems. That would eventually put him out of business! So he’s essentially a hypocrite that pretends to care!
Well said Sir, as a Portuguese this also hits very close to home.
Meu amigo, eu vi a minha casa arder nos incêndios de 2016, meus pais ficaram com queimaduras das fagulhas em brasa que iam caindo, refugiaram-se numa garagem cercados pelo fogo com os vizinhos e uma cabra que a vizinha salvou (as outras morreram carbonizadas e eu via esse horror todos os dias ao passar pelo caminho até limparem os cadáveres) eu fui com a minha avó, ainda viva na altura, para um alojamento em São Pedro do sul na noite anterior enquanto os meus pais ficaram para proteger o que tínhamos
Em nenhum momento culpo a união europeia. Culpo o governo e a sua corrupção, culpo as Câmaras municipais de S.Pedro do Sul e de Arouca pela ausência de um plano municipal de emergência e culpo o SIRESP.
Muitos dos fogos na Grecia como em Portugal são fogos postos. Não é de culpar a UE por tudo como Varoufakis costuma fazer.
Há dois mil familias gregas super ricas cujos bens, muitos oriundos de fraudes fiscais e de subsidios etc. representam 70% da riqueza do país. Esses super ricos Gregos que não se importam com a própria patria nunca são alvo das criticas de Varoufakis. - Só a UE tem a culpa.
What the greeks were doing burning the cash instead of investing it properly?
The Greek version of Parliamentarian Organised Crime Mafia!
Croatia loves greece ❤️
Greece loves Serbia not Croatia
@@hpvspeedmachine4183 rubbish, no one loves Serbia. Even Russians think you are stalking them.
Never mind the crazies, when it comes to love our reservoir is endless
Stop trivial talk JASHUA said "Love one another" as I have loved you. There is no time for hate..we must unite in Jesus CHRIST JASHUA.
The EU will only show interest if it can benefit from it. It's comforting to know we are no longer controlled and legislated by them.
fluid jazz. Good to be out of it.(The EU is a corporate stitch up) It's a start. A lot remains to be done though.
Ps. Boris got on swimmingly well with Ursula at the G7 summit, in spite of all the spats over Brexit.
Big love to the Greek people, you have a beautiful country and culture. Far too good for the EU. From a Brit.
@Ender95 ED Bet the ED at the end of your moniker stands for erectile dysfunction.
You are right! This is awful. Greece got enough drama and suffering.
And now this. I missed and miss the European solidarity. I didn't hear Michel.
What a shame, a Belgian citizen.
Yeah, I remember him, saying “ I want to be on the right side of history “, what a failure he is. Have a wonderful time, Anne. Stay safe, healthy, strong, happy and be blessed 🕊✌️🍀❣️
What are you talking about? Almost every European country send their firefighters to Greece. It wasnt the fault of the EU but Greek government which refused to call for help. Also, as many experts said, Greek fire teams are lacking good and modern Equipment. It is another fail of Greek government, not Eu.
@@albertkowalski5629 Clearly you didn't watch the video. Yanis says that separate countries sent teams to help but European Union or Commission was nowhere to be seen. What are the EU bureaucrats payed for.
@@tnk657 Well, the EU is not responsible to fight fires in any member country. But they give a lot of money, also to Greece. But what can you expect from politicians who arise from a few families (Papandreou, Mitsotakis, Karamanlis, etc.) These families are ruling Greece for centuries.They kicked out the king and established their families.
@@albertkowalski5629
I'm very sorry Albert but you're an IDIOT !
You should watch the video again.. and maybe this time you might get it!
wishing that a speedy recovery yanis..
Where were you, when Greece needed at least someone to speak for it? Nowhere to be seen. Telling all kinds of crap.
OMG
I have become tired of them Greeks blaming everyone else and demanding money.
Get your act together!
He’s sounding more and more like Nigel farage!
And we know where that leads!
Sad ,but true I think!
To free thinking and freedom perhaps? This is a patriot speaking. He has been proved right from the beginning of the EU fiasco. Listen to him!
@@barbaracleverly9058 He wants for EU to become a country, like USA. But it's not. It's a block of countries with tight trading and traveling rules.
But it doesn't own any planes, tanks, ships or anything that could possibly help... EU might have asked NATO to help Greece with its fire, but then again its not EU, Greece could've asked NATO it self.
You don't understand what EU is... EU has Offices and old people... How can they could help fight fire? Its for individual nations to send help, not EU.
@@SimplyVanis his video is about where these people are.. If there were so excited to fix the economy of a member state (all in order for them to make the most possible profit out of it), where is their excitement now that the same member is under catastrophic arsons. Believe me, if that fires was a threat for northern countries and where the decisions are coming from they will definitely do much like they do with Turkey paying billions euros in order refugees not to enter their rich countries which is refugees goal but to stay as far possible like pn Greek islands in thousands locked-in/they don't care..
@@yannisliosis8108 How many billions was given to Germany in time of floods?
Stop being stupid and stop associating shit to EU that has nothing to do with EU.
If Greece wants for this to be an EU issue, Greece has to go to EU and tell them, them selves. This is a local issue, EU doesn't put their noses in local issues as long as it's not against EU values in terms of Human rights n stuff.
@@yannisliosis8108 Tell me, what do you think EU is? What are they doing and what are their responsibilites?
I'm Italian as I watched southern Italy go up in flames I knew somebody had set the fires. I'm sure the same happened in Greece. Why does nobody do anything about these arsenists? What has Europe got to do with Italians and Greek arsenists setting fires?
Yanis loves blaming the EU because he knows that all the conspiracy loons will jump on the band wagon. It's just a tired excuse for all the failures of your own government.
The EU has nothing to do with anything, if it hasn't been enabled with the neccasary authority through a democratic process resulting in legislation, or even through transfer of sovereignty's by a treaty.
Life can be so easy, when there's always someone you can put the blame on.
That's why you are a combination of an inspector and a spectator, someone who inspects to pass on some form of judgement and someone who observes from a distance as a spectator, you must have a very easy life.
@@user-kb8fn2ot2z Have You been living under a rock - YOU have not a slite idea about real life in Greece!
@@user-kb8fn2ot2z I don't complain. I am just sitting here in my tub, watching things washed ashore.
@@inspectator9384 I leave you to play with your bubbles then, enjoy
@John Riggins Seems like you see only what you want to see. Why did the EU accepted Greece inside EU in the first place, if it was not benefical to them? Very simplistic and juvenile on your part to shift the attention only to one counterpart of an interdependent relationship. How are you sure the mess was created only by the corrupt Greek government? Im sure it is a significant factor, but it certainly does not justify the external involvement to the current point of pillaging Greek properties and slavery through monetary debt.
Next door neighbours are the ones we can rely the most, not family members living miles away. So be nice to our neighbours. Be neighbourly
Greece will always be in the Hearts of many here in the UK. 👍
Lord Byron and his romantic death helping Greece freedom at Missolonghi
Give the marbles back then.
@@aleta5024 let sleeping dogs lie as they used to say
@@aleta5024 No problem for me I am Welsh 🏴
This man is only complaining every possibility he can ... That's ridiculous.
He uses the fires only for his purpose instead of trying to help.
And, except for fires of course, take some responsibilty for the wrong doing of Greek governments in the past ... instead of constant complaining.
All this said from someone who 'announces' himself to the digital audiences as an astrological entity. What does Jupiter has to say about love tomorrow?
@@user-kb8fn2ot2z O.K I got it now - You are lost in the space!. I Hope the contact with real-life will not be very hard!
The other EU nations sent you helicopters to help put out the fires. Isn’t that a sign of solidarity?
He clearly and comprehensively answerer that at the very beginning. Individual Martin in and outside the EU sent help, but the EU institutions were notably missing in action.
@@geejaybee Yeah, sure, but that doesn’t take away the fact that Greece has benefited much more from its EU membership than it’s suffered under the ill-begotten austerity policies that Dijsselbloem and his fellow EU-level colleagues enacted upon the country. There is room for criticism, but let’s not forget that solidarity has been there and that Greece has very purposely not gotten out of the euro and the EU. The goal should be to find an optimal win-win. And every showing of solidarity in that context is a good thing.
You confuse things. It's tiring.
I agree wlth you, this is the Europe they have made. Avery day is more and more clear the kind of policy they want.
Perhaps the relationship between Greece - specifically, in this case - and the EU is analogous to that between a narcissist and their supply, in that once the victim has been sucked dry, their abuser has no further use for them and leaves them to rot.
EU does not control its nations, nor it has the tools to help Greece, except lending them money to fight the fire.
What do you want? 60 year old people in suits from Brussels to come and fight fire? What do you think EU is, what does EU has? EU owns 0 fire trucks, 0 planes, 0 tanks... It has some offices and bunch of old people...
@@SimplyVanis always blaming the EU for everything that happens in your corrupt country is the norm for Greece and co. They are just crazy conspiracy theorists because it's easier to blame someone else than look at your own politicians and resolve the problems.
@John Riggins I agree to a certain degree. The main problem of Greece is the absence of active CITIZENS. You can take the institutions (legislation, justice system, policing, etc) and hand it over to Swiss Citizens and I guarantee you that in a few years Greece will resemble Switzerland in terms of State function than the hellhole it now is. Having said that there are even worse hellholes in the Balkan vicinity.
you are right because the instrument which our western ideology is leveraged upon is a direct function of an externalised value system. capital. this is why it will ultimately fail. true value is our shared humanity and the spiritual enlightenment to know and practice these values as captured in the hellenistic aphorism 'know thyself'. as was said about slavery "am i not your brother?" yes you are. 🙏
@@inhale.exhale.2527 No you are not my brother unless you prove it with actions. The world is much more complicated than throwing a carpet statement and hope it blooms out of nothingness. I assume you haven't been paying attention in history class.
P.S. Capital is the natural outcome of savings and private property and the freedom to own thyself. From that freedom (to own the self) derives the freedom to leave your lifetime belongings (which you only manage during your lifetime - no one that I know of took them with him/her in the afterlife) to anyone you see fit - hence the inheritance institution.
"Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell? Where was Gondor when our enemies closed in around us!? Where was Gon - No, my Lord Aragorn, we are alone." - Théoden
You advocate the dissolution of Gondor, do you? You see, Gondor- bashing might destroy Gondor...and who would benefit from that?
@@arthurchinaski3736 No, leave Gondor be. We call the Ents for aid.
@@MrMauro113 And, speaking figuratively, who be the Ents now?
@@MrMauro113 They've all burnt.
Such lovely places in Greece. It saddens me that I might not be able to travel there again and support the tourism economy.
dear varoufaki when you were a member of government you had the chance to supply Greek firefighters , if you wanted to do something for your country so you are the least to speak NOW !!!
You are right, he also had the chance in a six month period to act like superman, carry Greece on his shoulder and fly away to our very own paradise, hiding somewhere in the sunset
@Gordon Brown I don't know where you get your information, but in the Syriza government he was undermined by his "comrades", and there is also the argument that what he proposed to the EU counterparts when he was negotiating was so modest it would reflect most social democracies of Europe some years ago. I think I remember Zizek suggesting that. I'm providing a reference not because Zizek is the almighty spirit of cogito, but because my own knowledge in the previous statement, regarding the whereabouts of central Europe's social democracies in the near past, is not sufficient. If it is wrong you tell me.
@Gordon Brown You are painting a really childish picture. Where does he boast, and where he expresses his opinions with such a lack of detail that would justify the phrase "Eu to give Greece more money and everything would be fine". Now I know why your last name is Brown.
EU is just a puppy of US; it cares more of US interest than the community's interest.
Do NOT confuse the US with the UN.
For that matter, do NOT confuse the American people with the CORRUPT politicians in DC.
is there any problem in greece where one doesnt blame the EU?
The big question is whether the EU has solved any problem in Greece!?
@@mladenmalesevic1684 exactly, the expectation is that the EU solves greece's internal problems. not their own corrupt politicians, elected by themselves, but somehow the EU. this exact mentality and total surrender of the balkan people is the reason for the state of their nations today. EU is a welcomed and cheap scapegoat.
the only expectation Greek people should have is to return all historical treasures from EU countries and museum plus refund from WW2 ,the politicians in Greece is corrupt same as they learned from EU colegs why established them,if you beleive in this ilusion of election then you ain't diferent from Greek people.The mentality of Balkan people is fine if EU let them to be what they are.EU is everything else but cheap scapegoat
@@mladenmalesevic1684 more babble. you can do your country a favour by studying well. good luck
The question is: Is Greece and its economy better now than it used to be? No. When did that happen? During the EU years. Well, rationally, the EU must have played some role in it. Without turning a blind eye to Greece's responsibility, the EU knew what was going on all the way. But its official narrative ia that they woke up one day and found a corrupt bankrupt state. Wow!!! They must have been sleeping real tight dreaming of European banks lending and Greek consumers buying German and French stuff
Yes, Yanis, of course you are right. But I still remember that after our democratic referendum here in the UK, you regarded us with disdain and acted like we were stupid. You of all people knew the full dysfunctionality and amorality of the EU and yet even you could not see or accept that there were other viable alternatives (to your own world view), which were worthy of mutual respect. I was at one of your town halls in Islington. I remember it well!
Yanis makes correct critisism of EU and always has. He still thinks Britain is foolish for leaving.
Yanis would like to see all countries come together to make positive changes to the EU.
How many of Greece’s problems are homemade?! How many of these fires were caused by Greek arsonists themselves?
- 2,000 super wealthy tax dodging and figures manipulating Greek families who represent 70% of the national private wealth keep their money in foreign bank accounts instead of helping their nation.
One never hears Varoufakis complaining about them. Only the EU is responsible for their (oftentimes) homemade problems.
@@benangel3268 ..and Santa Claus is real!
since when does the EU have a fire brigade - that is national authority. And the EU did coordinate and pay through the mechanisms they do have.
You cant run a country or a world like you run a bank. This is not possible.
That is what happens when social sciences take the downhil, there is no real communion of ideas without philosophy. And the University which is supposedly the pinnacle of thought, has turned these educational programs into a customer experience, a commercial product.
Where was the EU when there were the floods here in Germany? Same thing.
Mr. Varoufakis was Romania not there to help? What more can you ask them to do to help Greece?
Malcolm said of a different branch on the tree of hierarchy, "well the chickens are coming home to roost". The decision to let the money ride while the planet burns and the human inhabitants of lesser consequence are consumed by hunger and infectious disease portends the inversion of mob justice that finds that billionaires are the strange fruit of our time hanging from the poplar tree.
Helenic army has more than ten billion dollar yet Greek people can't manage meet ends, because of militarism and it is everywhere else.
@nicos frangeskou good thing that bear is smarter than the average bear, as an economist and military strategist. sadly the bear lives in a cold war thinking as the Siberia burns and arctic melts
some people imagie solving their problems by throwing them on heads of others and still complain that others are not helping them. So arogant.
Aha ... YV, who single handedly cost the Geeek tax payer easily an extra €5 billion through his utter incompetence, is at it again. Let me some it up: B&S!
Greece along with Portugal and Ireland received the most EU funds over the longest period than any other country. Perhaps it's time to stop relying on others and look after own affairs.
I agree with you at some point. I would add italy and Spain in this group. Nonetheless those countries have been deeply bankrupt especially Greece and as long as you have a monetary union those countries should receive money in order to improve themselves. Now, the way EU lend money (loans) to Greece for instance (austerity measures), makes it impossible not to ask for further "solidarity" programms while the current debt is already unviable and not restructured. Instead of giving solutions EU expands the problematic situation among Europe, dividing Europeans North-South pointing the finger to one another. What we should do is to elect governments and movements which would say no or nein to the EU policies that are destroying Europe in general.
The answer is simple.... THEY DON'T CARE!!
I've never understood why Greece has so much poverty. According to Wikipedia, average GDP per capita (PPP) is $29,000. The people are smart and hard working, they have a good industrial base and fantastic tourism and shipping industries. Greece should be the Singapore of southern Europe.
Apparently it is exactly because Greeks are so hard working that the country is poor. If an overworked labour force is the norm, it will lower the cost of labour, and thus wages. Greeks are also less productive, even though they work more hours. They will have more success if they immitate the German work ethic, I believe.
Not paying taxes, clandestine employment, corruption in bureaucray.
@@amuthi1 the labour force was overworked in the first place because they were overtaxed
@Gordon Brown Economics isn't my major in fact. Secondly, I agree with you completely. Perhaps I should've stated my point differently. At least you understand the point I was trying to make.
IF GREECE HADNT HAVE LIED TO GET IN EU IN FIRST PLACE THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE HELPED, TOO MUCH CORRUPTION IN GREECE
Yanis is always worth listening to.
My dad used to say “ if you ever want to be let down then rely on someone.”
There is also an expression which says “ eat the meat off of your own leg but don’t beg the butcher.”
Support from Serbia, our brothers!
Where was Greece when you were bombed by NATO? The Greek people on the other hand showed solidarity.
dear me.. other people have already pointed out the shortcomings of this speech. The other interesting point is; so why did Greece join the EU? ah yes, it was out of pure goodheartedness - no financial reasons at all.
I am part of Diem 25.
MY condolences on the loss of your friend Yanis.
I would also ask what will be done to try to stop the terrifyingly rapid move to a Hot State World, where, amongst other unimaginable changes, the entire land surrounding the Mediterranean sea will become a desert, free of all life, as is the Sahara??? I confidently expect Copout26 to do nothing. I fear we are all done for, but in the meantime, vicious political oppression does not help for the time we have left.
If you're in this party, aim to get rid of Varoufakis. He is a populist demagogue that is discrediting the party by spreading fake news.
Where are the taxes not paid by the greek people. and where are my pension. Contributions paid but no payment. Thank you greece.
Where was the EU when whole Germany was flooded ?
Well, when Germany was drowning, I didn't see the EU either. Nor did I see any Greek people helping. What I did see were German firefighters helping in Greece!
The EU was created by the French man Johnononeh to serve the French interests fore most. Weird no body understands that.
Maybe you have the condition of selective vision
Since when has the EU (born out of its various evolving manifestations) ever been about the peoples
of Europe? Divide and rule by eliminating the nation state - that is the ethos of that egregious entity.
Devide and rule by uniting the countries? Lol ok hahaha 🤣
@@artgatherer3477 Let me remind you of the mindset behind what has become the EU...from the
words of Jean Monnet. "Europe's nations should be guided towards the super state without
their people understanding what is happening...".
So much for caring about the wishes and dreams of the "people" of any country when the
politicians conspire to mislead and misrepresent!. Conspiracy needs a united front of a
very different sort ot that understood by "the man on the Clapham omnibus".
The EU has been invented by the French and for the French and the Germans - as long of the latter follow the French agenda.
That is just a stupid conspiracy theory. EU has been good for the people of Europe. Look at the UK now - Billy no Mates withno milkshakes in Mcdonald's. Everyone is laughing at you.
@@aleta5024 Be wary and fully informed before making accusations about stupidity. The Common Market was merely a starting point towards what was intended to be a political entity - check
its various transformations via the EEC...EC...to EU - even to seeking its own army. Here in
England I am more than happy to have had my decades-long suspicions substantiated by
history. We have been laughed at before and, unlike many others, are more than capable
of laughing at ourselves. But we are still here - and well out of it. Europeans yes! The EU..no
thanks. Remember the words of Jean Monnet - an early enthusiast for "The Project":
"Europe's nations should be guided towards the super state without their people understanding
what is happening...This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as
having an economic purpose but which will eventually lead to federation."
Certain mentalities elsewhere may find that deceit acceptable, even congenial;
the English never...and so, when given the politically delayed chance, we left! And by the way, I'd
rather have our successful actions over the Covid vaccines than a milkshake in some fast-food outlet, with questionable friends, thank you very much!
Full respect for this great man!
@Ender95 ED why?
The same where were the EU during the covid-19 crisis in Italy? Greece? Etc.
Oh jeez, Greece is still in EU? Why didn't you leave when you were in charge, Yanis? Does EU breach their commitments, not these imaginative ones, these in paper? Austerity is a useful word when you take a loan, use it to finance populist expenditures and don't want to give it back.
Yanis was never in charge, though. He was a finance minister who actually tried to come up with a deal that would benefit both the EU at large and Greece. Unfortunately, the interests of the bureaucrats and politicians in the EU member countries was more to punish Greece, no matter the consequences.
@@Redstarka22 and they still want to be a member of EU? I guess EU were stupid because they didn't want to benefit from that great proposal of Yanis? that would contradict that EU were greedy :) The same in Poland, I ask the same questions - if you hate bureaucrats in EU, if you think you don't benefit or there is no surplus, why don't you leave?
I agree with everything you say. We have to keep fighting and not allow ourselves to be discouraged by the economic powers that are trying to determine the political agenda !!
As Greece was burning - where have YOU been YANIS? long time no see. For a long time Greek Parlament is completely empty I guess YOU were with the rest of the parliamentarians on the beach ( not the same once filled with people escaping death by fire) - I suppose?. WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING and wearing this peasant T-shirt - o I see YOU are one of us. HQ of DIEM25 is located in Germany so say it loud and clear - inform people about millions of euros (reparations for losses due to COV-19 ) given to NOW german owned Greek main air-ports (14 of which they got for nothing),120 million to AEGEAN -airlines,20 million to HIGH - WAY company,60 million to MEDIA to glorify ND government, and just 1.7 million given to fire protection department ( even this small amount was misused and wasted by government thieves). Tell us about Your DREAM TEAM - Owen Jones, Keir Staimer, Zizek, Bernie Sanders, and the top" progressive and democratic" Joe Biden!. THE Green Deal is already implemented in Greece - from CHARCOAL (that's what is left of the forest ) to GREEN ENERGY- in form of German-produced Wind Mills- since now this is running in Germany on government subsidies (hundreds of billions) energy prices in Greece will be rising. Tell us about supporting VACCINATION of all populations with experimental medicine - all and right now - and then we will see! Multi-culti sure, why not - 3-4 million Africans and Asians are already in Greece and millions are coming from Afghanistan! And as a BS MASTER, YOU can continue your struggle - sipping champagne on the island possession, profiting from Greeks misery, watching millions of Your countrymen unemployed and ruined struggling to survive.HI-TECH and BIO- GULAG in SMART CITIES with Dumb people is coming soon ! Just remember NAZIS and COMMIES are BASTARDS of the same BITCH!
Respect to Greece from UK
This is one of many reasons we left corrupt EU I think you should do the same.
This is rubbish. EU is pumping unimaginable amounts of money into Greece and helping in every way possible. The problem is that Greece is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. Yanks should do better to look into his own corrupt politicians than to blame the EU and so should you. You are out and that is better for the EU. We don't need any more right wing loons like Nigel Farage and corrupt clowns like Boris Johnson. You should shut up about the EU and sort yourself out. You don't have any milkshakes in Mcdonald's or chicken in Nando's. UK is a joke on the international stage.
Omg this guy can only complain, where was yourself 🔥 when Greece was burning 🔥 you don't look like you was helping, you look more like you was sunbathing, hypocrite 🙄
they were not nowhere, they were on there yachts in the mediterranean sea, laughing at the columns of smoke over Greece and drinking champagne
When the chips are down is when you find out who your friends are !
Exactly!
I remember someone who runs a fairly popular facebook group and was vehemently opposed to Tory austerity tell me that the problem in Greece wasn't that austerity had been foisted on them by the EU but that the Greek government was cutting back the wrong things. Blind allegiance to any institution will make a hypocrite of you sooner or later.
@Ender95 ED I don't think you understood what I wrote.
Bravo. This is it.
I saw the angry comments against you. And as always, they were just unreflected and biased - pro EU.
The EU is not there, was never there when it was needed by the people. EU is for the EU-buerocrats.
You are so right, Yanis ! I feel so sorry for the greek friendly population. What a shame for our EU leaders.
The greek prime minister is the only eu leader that should be ashamed.
Greece is facing a true disaster. But remember, the same burned área is classified has "average" in portugal. I still don't see any portuguese minister or deputy claming that this is EU's fault or that the EU doenst help. (Mainly because they try to keep a low profile during this disasters because they know its the blame of their disastours policies and administration full of corruption
Well said, Professor. They are obviously off chasing richer pickings.
Question for Mr. Varoufakis: what happened with the billions China paid for the de facto purchase of the port(s)? That was your doing, right? Greece sets its priorities wrong. Whatever financial support or leniancy, it will never be enough. Corruption is the key word.
Finally people are figuring this fact out. But it has been a demonstrably empirical fact for decades.
Many people from many countries have many opinions about Britain over their leaving the EU. Some of them are correct. Many people in the UK are jingoistic narrow minded xenophobes and blatant simple minded racists.
But a few of us only wanted to leave the EU because of its corruption, its bloated bureaucracy and lack of accountability.
But I personally recognised the very real evidence of a much deeper and more disturbing malady at the core of the EU in the utterly despicable way Greece was treated in response to the so-called ‘banking crisis’.
I admire the attitudes of the Greek people towards the state theft that they call taxation. They know that the money stolen in taxes does not go to pay for services, as the government claims. It goes to the banks to pay debts run up by governments!
The more layers of state and EU superstate debts incurred, the more unjust taxation of the people.
Any rudimentary look at the Greek economy reveals the huge disparity between it and the larger industrialised members of the EU. Therefore it is simply impossible to make a valid case for Greece to have become a member. The evidence is that You would have been better off outside the EU.
But finally, this is about what the EU is now, and what it was presented as when the idea was first proposed to prospective members.
In the case of the UK in the early 1970s it was called The Common Market. A market is where people trade. It is about business.
Then it became The European Economy Community. Communities are social structures. Economics is about finances.
Now it’s the European Union - a United States of Europe, in which all the fortunes of member states are inextricably linked. Does that feel healthy? It does not to me in the UK, and I doubt it does to the people of Greece.
I hope the agents of the intelligence services stop lighting fires in your beautiful country soon.
Peace
Yes it’s only right to support our brothers when they are in trouble. Yes the E U let Greece down
While Yanis Varoufakis has a point! However, a major reason for Greece's predicament is decades of corruption, mismanagement and cronyism. The lesson to be learnt from Greece is, don't run your society so incompetently, that your are department on others. I know that Greece hasn't got Norway's oil and gas resources, but surely they could ringfenced some revenue over the years, just as Singapore has. I enjoy listening to Yanis, but Greek society has to take responsibility and stop complaining.
As Greece was burning - where have YOU been YANI? long time no see. For a long time Greek Parlament is completely empty I guess YOU were with the rest of the parliamentarians on the beach ( not the same once filled with people escaping death by fire) - I suppose?. WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING and wearing this peasant T-shirt - o I see YOU are one of us. HQ of DIEM25 is located in Germany so say it loud and clear - inform people about millions of euros (reparations for losses due to COV-19 ) given to NOW german owned Greek main air-ports (14 of which they got for nothing),120 million to AEGEAN -airlines,20 million to HIGH - WAY company,60 million to MEDIA to glorify ND government, and just 1.7 million given to fire protection department ( even this small amount was misused and wasted by government thieves). Tell us about Your DREAM TEAM - Owen Jones, Keir Staimer, Zizek, Bernie Sanders, and the top" progressive and democratic" Joe Biden!. THE Green Deal is already implemented in Greece - from CHARCOAL (that's what is left of the forest ) to GREEN ENERGY- in form of German-produced Wind Mills- since now this is running in Germany on government subsidies (hundreds of billions) energy prices in Greece will be rising. Tell us about supporting VACCINATION of all populations with experimental medicine - all and right now - and then we will see! Multi-culti sure, why not - 3-4 million Africans and Asians are already in Greece and millions are coming from Afghanistan! And as a BS MASTER, YOU can continue your struggle - sipping champagne on the island possession, profiting from Greeks misery, watching millions of Your countrymen unemployed and ruined struggling to survive.HI-TECH and BIO- GULAG in SMART CITIES with Dumb people is coming soon ! Just remember NAZIS and COMMIES are BASTARDS of the same BITCH!
@@hussar6347 It seems that the needle in your gramophone is stuck
@@user-kb8fn2ot2z Whenever I see Him vomiting BS - one thing is happening; WARNING !!! - LYING COMMIE!!!...LYING COMMIE!!! ...LYING COMMIE!!!...and remember old things and thoughts have a great value - " A nation can survive the fools and even the ambitious. But betrayal from within cannot survive. An enemy at the gates is less formidable because he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves freely among those inside the gate, his wicked whispers climbing into all the alleys, heard in the halls of the government itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maybe they should just pay taxes like the Germans do.
@@aleta5024 As Greece was burning - where have YOU been YANI? long time no see!. For a long time, the Greek Parlament is completely empty, I guess YOU were with the rest of the parliamentarians on the beach ( not the same once filled with people escaping death by fire) - I suppose?. WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING and wearing this peasant T-shirt - o I see YOU are one of us. HQ of DIEM25 is located in Germany so say it loud and clear - inform people about millions of euros (reparations for losses due to COV-19 ) given to NOW german owned Greek main air-ports (14 of which they- FRAPORT got for nothing),120 million to AEGEAN -airlines,20 million to HIGH - WAY company,60 million to MEDIA to glorify ND government, and just 1.7 million given to fire protection department ( even this small amount was misused and wasted by government thieves). Tell us about Your DREAM TEAM - Owen Jones, Keir Staimer, Zizek, Bernie Sanders, and the top" progressive and democratic" Joe Biden!. THE Green Deal is already implemented in Greece - from CHARCOAL (that's what is left of the forest ) to GREEN ENERGY- in form of German-produced Wind Mills- since now this is running in Germany on government subsidies (hundreds of billions) energy prices in Greece will be rising. Tell us about supporting VACCINATION of all populations with experimental medicine - all and right now - and then we will see! Multi-culti sure, why not - 3-4 million Africans and Asians are already in Greece and millions are coming from Afghanistan! And as a BS MASTER, YOU can continue your struggle - sipping champagne on the island possession, profiting from Greeks misery, watching millions of Your countrymen unemployed and ruined struggling to survive.HI-TECH and BIO- GULAG in SMART CITIES with Dumb people is coming soon ! Just remember NAZIS and COMMIES are BASTARDS of the same BITCH!
Yes! And where are we as the whole planet slips into a great inferno?
- Where was the Greek CITIZEN as season after season pine trees were causing an extremely dangerous ordeal , littering the countryside with dry tinder like pine needles, dead branches, fallen dead trees?
- Where was the Greek CITIZEN when the neighboring property or even his own, was never cleared of dry debris?
-Where was/is the Greek CITIZEN when year after year the Greek State doesn’t provide the services they are getting paid for?
- Where is the Greek CITIZEN when the State and the Forestry department prohibits private owners to cut down dangerous trees even within their properties (!!!) ?
- Where is the Greek CITIZEN when election time comes and votes the same “solutions” while expecting different outcomes?
- Where is the Greek CITIZEN in general?
Answer: NOWHERE! There is no Greek Citizen!
They used to send a committee every single week, as they were concerned about not meeting the actual targets etc but when it comes to the refugee crisis, dealing with a hostile neighbour who is becoming more and more aggressive and when dealing with national disasters they were happy sitting in their offices. And that goes to recent Germany floods as well... Is this the EU we really want ???
Greece's should leave the EU club, just like britian, and get it's freedoms back.
Yeah it's been so great for you. You don't even have milkshakes in McDonald's. Sit down
@Gordon Brown UK did open everything before anyone else and the result is the highest covid infection and death rate in Europe. P.S. We don use imperial measures in Europe. We were never your colonies. We use, in every way superior, metric system.
The eu this the eu that... easy target
So much for European solidarity
The leadership of the EU need to understand their role as a unifying force. As an Italian I am sorry to see the lack of action from the Eu in support of Greece fires, and German and Belgian floods. . There needs to be a "rapid response team" from the EU, A Frontex for natural disasters. It must created as a priority !
Most of the power in Europe, and so in the EU, is under right wing control, these often oppose collective actions, unless they get paid, only the Ordoliberalism of Germany and the statism of France are partially outside that mentality, but mostly for internal questions. Hopefully Brexit will be an opportunity to ameliorate the institutions.
🤔 Hm! Asking an organisation of one type to act as if it was another is ridiculous. Police officers are not ambulance staff. Here in Britain there was a fuss over the possibility of a European Army. Panic at the golf club 😲. What chance is there of anything Europe wide being established with such a hostile attitude? Yet people with the right skills volunteer to help overseas in times of trouble. Do they receive the recognition they deserve?
Yanis, as of now, EU is a bunch of countries that work together for better and more efficient economy, you are expecting a bit too much right now. Yet, it would be good to say that Greece did not want help at first and eventually, countries came over to help, once it was reported in the news - that Greece fire fighters(thank you for all what you have done) were not able to manage. It took 6 days for Greece to ask for help, if I remember well?
Great respect for your honesty, always. Thank you.
Well said , nothing more nor less.
where? ..Nowhere to be found! - That's why this bureaucratic moloch should stay there .. in nowhere-land. - Use the money wasted on bureaucracy to solve the problems of the citizens and not waste money for their agenda, which becomes more and more obvious.
New reason same solution austerity the cure all .
Stop wining ans start to take responsibility for you mal-management
You are right, we only need someone financially inferior to us that we can take advantage of, and pass on the misery, you clever Hun
Firefighting isn't a European prerogitive as it probable should be. France has send two airplanes and 80 firemen to help Greece. Germany and Spain also helped out. Where was Greece when Spain and Italy were on fire ?
@@hansnijsen9012 Are you deliberately missing the point? It's about central EU authority not countries as a whole with their nations and cultures
@@user-kb8fn2ot2z as things stand today it is not a EU-competence currently to manage natural disasters. I agree it should be. Meanwhile individual EU countries send help to oneanother where possible.
@@hansnijsen9012 Again, you are focusing overtly only in the 'operational' assistance in fire fighiting. The EU as an office, doesn't need to coordinate the fire departpment per se, it can help by not being a blackmailer with its coercion of money loans. The money rarely reaches the vital spots, and its not only because of the incompetence of the Greek government. Your corrupted individuals do bussiness with our corrupted individuals. And the synchronous reaction from society takes much more time to organise compared to the opportunistic attacks of vultures that thrive this particular period.
When Greece needed a Leader....where were YOU
Greece, do not ask what the EU can do for you, ask what you can do for the EU.
It is very easy to blame the EU for everything that goes wrong in a country. As far as I know many countries in the EU (Greece included) insist on their political independence. If a country chooses (like Greece did) to enter the Euro-zone then you have to accept some rules for the sake of the system and you are not fully independent anymore. This was the choice of the Greek government then. In my opinion
this step came too early for Greece and its economy.
What I am missing in the EU: There are so many things that member countries could learn from each other. In German speaking countries
(Switzerland, Germany, Austria) we have professional fire-fighters, but the majority are volunteers who have professional equipment and
you can find them in many small villages. They will be the first to fight fires as they are very close. If you have to wait a long time for
fire-fighters to come you will loose the game.
Second thing: Fire-fighters came from many countries also from Germany and Austria as far as I know, but it is not so easy for countries which are 2000 km far away.
I do read Greek newspapers but nobody tells us who the people are who put the woods on fire. Who is behind these people? What is their
purpose? Is it the political opposition or other groups who expect some financial benefits? I can't find answers to this issue. Why?
Some fires brake out (not only in Greece) because some people are just stupid and underestimate the danger when throwing burning cigarettes out of their cars or burning wood in their fields.
Anyway, there are so many other unsolved issues (no access to the woods, missing roads for fire-fighters, inefficient water supply, etc.etc.)
The Greek government has to be blamed first, but also parts of Greek citizens.
Δεν φταίω εγώ, πάντα ο άλλος! Δεν κάνω λάθη εγώ, τα κάνουν οι άλλοι.
No money in it...so no EU.
Per chance, are you English? The UK wanted to reduce the EU to serve the rich and wanted to scrap the ever closer union clause from the first page of the Treaty of Rome. They had allies in the other countries, and one of their claims was that the EU always was a purely free trade agreement, with no consideration to the people.
Same situation in germany during/after the flood!
You got help mate from Romania,Poland,Slovakia,that was not enough?!