Europe is crumbling – neglecting its people, cancelling elections, fuelling wars and xenophobia, empowering a new alliance of ultra-rightists, conservatives, centrists and ‘greens’, leaving the door open to the sirens of Trump and Musk.

From Gaza to Ukraine, the EU’s complicity in global atrocities mirrors its failures at home: rising poverty, authoritarianism, and despair. Its slavish alignment with U.S. imperialism has stripped Europe of independence and purpose, making it complicit in the New Cold War that may well prove humanity’s final undoing.

It’s time to fight back.

This event is a defiant call for an independent, justifiably proud Europe promoting everywhere a just peace, sensible demilitarisation, cooperation serving humanity’s common good. A Europe that serves its people – not one that turns them against each other or against other peoples. With uncompromising voices from politics, activism, and the arts, we’ll throw light onto the EU’s darkest truths… and chart a path to a brighter future.

This isn’t just a conversation—it’s the spark of a revolution.

Speakers: Yanis Varoufakis, Katie Halper, Grace Blakeley and Melanie Schweizer. Moderated by Mehran Khalili.

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