The New Cold War & What’s After Capitalism | Yanis Varoufakis National Press Club Address

Yanis Varoufakis, Academic Economist, Parliamentarian, Political Leader and Greece’s former Finance Minister, addressed the National Press Club of Australia on 13 March, 2024. “Europe and Australia are facing a common existential threat: a creeping irrelevance caused, on the one hand, by our failure properly to invest and, on the other hand, by our ill-considered slide from a strategic dependence on the United States to a non-strategic, self-defeating servility to Washington’s policy agenda.“ An academic economist who served as Greece’s Finance Minister in 2015, Varoufakis is the author of best-selling books including Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Penguin 2023), Another Now (Penguin 2020), Adults in the Room (Penguin 2017), Talking to My Daughter (Penguin 2017), And the Wake Suffer What They Must? (Penguin 2016), The Global Minotaur (Zed Books 2011) Yanis Varoufakis currently leads MeRA25 in Greece and is co-founder of the pan-European movement DiEM25 and Progressive