Yanis Varoufakis

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis joins us for a frank discussion of one of the most spectacular and controversial battles between Greece and the EU. Despite the mass support of the Greek people, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe’s political, financial and media elite. But the true story of what happened is almost entirely unknown – not least because so much of the EU’s real business takes place behind closed doors. Drawing from his third book, Adults in the Room: My battle with Europe’s deep establishment, Varoufakis shares his personal, often turbulent, experiences during the Greek crisis. As his previous books have demonstrated, he is a superb historian of political economy and brings enormous background knowledge to his critique of neoliberalism.