Europe's Economic Collapse Is Now Mathematically Inevitable | Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis explained

A document circulating among European finance ministries contains one devastating sentence: "Maintaining monetary union becomes net-negative for a majority of member states by Q4 2027." This isn't political rhetoric—it's cold arithmetic showing that Europe's economic model is approaching mathematical collapse. In Q1 2025 alone, the Netherlands moved €87 billion out of eurozone assets, while net capital outflows hit €400 billion for the year, exceeding even the 2012 crisis. The ECB is trapped: raising rates pushes Greece into depression, keeping them low inflates German asset bubbles—there is no policy that works for both economies simultaneously. Europe now faces three endgames: orderly dissolution, chaotic collapse, or technocratic authoritarianism—and time to choose is running out faster than anyone admits.