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Urging Sweden and the UK to free Julian Assange

6.03.2016

Call on the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom to comply without further delay with the UN's Working Group's findings and "ensure the ...

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DiEM25 Assembly: Transparency in Europe Now!

6.03.2016

As Europeans, we are too often forced to choose between two dreadful options: retreat into the cocoon of our nation-states, or surrender to the ...

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Yanis Varoufakis' Advice To U.K.'s Jeremy Corbyn… And George Osborne

2.03.2016

Originally published in Newsweek on May 2nd, 2016. Much was made recently of the U.K.opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s statement that I was ...

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Is Greece not another compelling reason to vote for Brexit on 23rd June?

29.02.2016

Proponents of Brexit implore British voters to reclaim their democracy by voting to ‘leave’ the EU. On the day he announced his support for ...

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Reply to Open Letter by Green Members to DiEM25

28.02.2016

Following the Berlin Launch of DiEM25, eleven representatives of the GREENS (including two Members of the European Parliament) sent DiEM25 an ...

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Britain needs DiEM25; and DiEM25 needs Britain

What makes DiEM25 a more effective movement? What is it doing differently?

24.02.2016

Primarily, our capacity to inspire a broad coalition of democrats from all over Europe. Not just leftists (like myself) but also social ...

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If we don’t restore democracy in Europe, the consequences could be dire

20.02.2016

Just before the nightmare of the second world war started to explode, the Italian politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously wrote in ...

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