| Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis join Freddie Sayers. Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/douglas-murray-and-yanis-varoufakis-the-eu-is-broken/ Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/douglas-murray-and-yanis-varoufakis-the-eu-has-failed The EU has had a difficult pandemic. A slow procurement of vaccines, followed by a botched rollout, and blame-shifting by its leaders has drawn together critics from all politics stripes. Two of unlikely bedfellows from very different political traditions, Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis, joined Freddie Sayers for a discussion about the bloc at an UnHerd members event. Murray’s feelings about the EU are well-known, having long been a critic of the bloc and writing a best-selling book on the subject. Varoufakis, meanwhile, has been on more of a journey. Once a staunch proponent of the ‘Remain and Reform’ position of the EU, the former Greek finance minister was a prominent backer of the Remain campaign in 2016. But fast-forward four years and Yanis’ views on the EU began to shift. In an interview with UnHerd during the UK’s first lockdown, he said that was so dismayed by the efforts to undo the result that he changed his mind on Brexit. This week, he made his most unambiguous statement yet, confirming that the EU’s poor vaccine rollout has convinced him of the virtues of Brexit // Timecodes // #EU #Covid-19 #Greece |
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