ABSTRACT:The last few years have been a bit of a rollercoaster for the European left. Riding up front has been Yanis Varoufakis, the charismatic economist and former Greek finance minister who went to war with the troika - the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund- in 2015 as it sought to inflict brutal austerity as a penalty for his country's debts and its decision to elect an openly left-wing government headed by Syriza. They lost that fight, but Varoufakis escaped mostly unscated. Amid Brexit and a wave of Euroskepticism, he went on to found the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), pushing for a more democratic and inclusive continent, free of austerity. Ther group mounted several candidates under the mantle of a European Spring this May, including Varoufakis himself. They failed to gain a single seat, though his vote total came in a hundreth of a percentage point below the 3 percent threshold needed to gain representation. While the center-right faltered in May, so, too, did the left.

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Yanis Varoufakis访谈

摘要：最近几年对于欧洲左派来说有点过山车。具有超凡魅力的经济学家，前希腊财政大臣亚尼斯·瓦鲁法基斯（Yanis Varoufakis）曾是骑手，他曾在2015年与三驾马车（欧盟委员会，欧洲中央银行和国际货币基金组织）交战，当时该国力图实施残酷的紧缩政策。对该国的债务进行惩罚，并决定选举以Syriza为首的公开左翼政府。他们输掉了这场战斗，但瓦鲁法基斯逃脱时几乎没有任何逃脱。在英国脱欧和欧洲怀疑论浪潮中，他继续创立了2025年欧洲民主运动（DiEM25），推动建立一个更加民主，包容，没有紧缩政策的大陆。该小组在今年五月的欧洲之春的掩护下召集了几位候选人，包括瓦鲁法基斯本人。他们未能获得一个席位，尽管他的选票总数比获得代表权所需的3％的门槛低了百分之百。尽管中右翼在5月步履蹒跚，但左翼也是如此。