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FORMER Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has warned that EU-imposed austerity measures are doomed to failure.
Mr Varoufakis told the BBC over the weekend that the bailout programme will “go down in history as the greatest disaster of macroeconomic management ever.
“This programme is going to fail whoever undertakes its implementation,” Mr Varoufakis said. Asked how long it would take, he replied: “It has failed already.”
The federal government’s plans to finance the war in Ukraine with Russian assets, and a possible deployment of German troops, put the population in Germany in the highest danger, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare