Democracy in Europe Movement 2025

On Sunday July 14, the Labour Party and DiEM25 leadership teams agreed to embark upon a common agenda for Europe and beyond.

Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is another giant step backwards for global security.

Three students were brutally beaten by right-wing assailants in in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Green is a symbol of hope — but it is also a source of great social wealth.

Greece’s Tories, the New Democracy party and its leader, Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis, today are the victors in our general election. However, their victory that was set in motion on the night of the referendum (July 5, 2015) by Mr Tsipras, the outgoing Prime Minister.

The results are in! MeRA25, DiEM25’s political party in Greece, has got into Greece’s national parliament with at least nine MPs, according to the latest official vote count as of 23:40 CET.

From 6 – 10 June, DiEM25 hosted its first Academy in Lisbon, after previous sessions in Belgrade and Cologne.

Join us tomorrow, June 21, in Aachen for the first international climate strike.

We need to talk about trash, specifically your trash problem. Your problem is our problem and our problem is your problem.

Whilst politicians and masters of war massacre thousands overseas to protect commercial interests, our “well-educated” elite could not be bothered. But workers have shown true internationalist spirit and awareness by transcending local and national politics to defend lives in distant lands.

Assange’s persecution is not his alone. It is all of ours.

Join us on Wednesday, June 12 at 6PM on Đlato Đoke Vještice to fight for free speech. Unfreedom of one of us is unfreedom of all!

Join us on Friday, June 7, outside of the Bundesrat to protest this move.

More than 1.4 million citizens backed our Green New Deal in the countries where we were contesting elections.

We have planted a beautiful, radical idea in the minds of Europeans. Our task is now to help this seed of hope grow.

In late April, DiEM25 founder Yanis Varoufakis participated in a debate with Sven Giegold, lead candidate of the German Greens. After two very close first rounds, Giegold used the third to attempt to nail his opponent on our Green New Deal. But Varoufakis had all the answers.

Together with Srećko Horvat, the Croatian philosopher in third place on the transnational list of democracy in Europe – DiEM25, Pamela Anderson presented her election poster last week in Berlin. Nationwide there will be about 1000 posters on which Pamela Anderson advertises for the Green New Deal.

The Green New Deal can only succeed as an internationalist campaign

In the evening of Tuesday November 20th of 2018, the Lisbon Municipal Council (CML) presented the redevelopment of Praça Martim Moniz, one of Lisbon’s central squares.

The implementation of The Bee Guidance, an EU guideline to protect bees from the harmful effects of pesticides, has been on hold in member states..

People have lost their lives trying to get into Europe for decades. In June 2018 the migrant body count was 34,361 and rising.

Extinction Rebellion, one of the most visible and successful campaigns of the climate movement, has drawn much ire from the political establishment.

DiEM25 members from 20 different countries joined their MeRA25 counterparts in Greece to send a loud message to the Greek and European Establishment.

Join us on May 2 at 12:00 in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin for a public protest against Julian Assange’s extradition to the US!

The deepening crisis of Europe’s economies and societies instead of being located in Europe’s deep establishments’ utter incompetence, is now, once again, being blamed on the migrants.

Debunking the myths around the burden of “illegal” migration on societies, translating the individual problems of migrants to the larger systemic inequalities and finding the way forward.

Instead of pitting people against one another, MeRA25 is rightly pitting the 99% [most of us] against the 1% [the oligarchs, financiers, unelected bureaucrats and the banks].

Julian Assange’s arrest: a chilling demonstration of the current disregard for Human Rights and freedom of speech by establishment powers and the rising far-right

Two weeks ago it was #InsaneTrade Week, when we learned about the absurdity — and climate costs — of our global trading system.

Election campaign kick-off. Discussion with Yanis Varoufakis and other DiEM25-endorsed candidates about a new form of politics.

DiEM25 is not yet another groupuscule of the Left, rushing into any unprincipled coalition in the hope of getting elected.

DiEM25 opposes the censorious incursion into freedom of expression that the European Parliament voted for in the form of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

Real solidarity from Europeans means criticism of the movements — to wish Algerians the same freedom from inspectorates, austerity, unjust trade deals and technocratic rule that we demand for Europeans in DiEM25.

We call on European states to stop sales and exports of weapons to countries that could perpetrate genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Europe has a Green New Deal and it’s coming to a ballot box near you in May 2019.

Join us on Monday in Brussels at the BOZAR Theater to discover what a true alternative for Europe looks like.

Our new volunteer group in Viborg, Denmark, is up and running and with plenty of good ideas!

#TheGreekFiles, a legal opinion about the ECB’s actions towards Greece in 2015, will continue to remain secret. For now. DiEM25 will appeal the European Court’s ruling and amp up its campaign to bring transparency to European institutions.

It’s time for a citizen takeover of the EU institutions, and we’re staging an event at the very core of the Brussels machine to show you how it could be done.

Rather than supporting the debris of a failed system, we must hear the democratic call of the Algerian people and bet on the future!

Though a positive step, Mogherini’s recent statement is simply insufficient when the EU plays a prominent role in endorsing the economic pressures currently sinking Venezuela.

We firmly oppose the threat of US military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. US military intervention has a long history in Latin and Central America, often supporting right-wing juntas and toppling democratically elected governments. There are only a few countries in both regions that have not been attacked by US forces during the 

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On International Women’s Day let us not only reclaim the streets, but reclaim our democracies, and defend the rights of all the dissenting voices calling for radical progressive change.

DiEM25 and European Spring partners support gender-balanced MEP candidate lists and a programme that seeks to defend their rights and reclaim their dignity.

As part of the Elevate Festival opening on February 27 in Graz Srećko Horvat will be joined by actress and activist Pamela Anderson to promote our Green New Deal for Europe.

Our volunteer group is Slovenia will open up the public space for a vigorous debate on what kind of Europe we want.

We must support both Balkan and European progressives for the basic principle at the core of DiEM25: democracy.

Our Green New Deal for Europe is coming to Belgium and you will be able to vote for it on May 26!

In the run-up to the European elections, this year’s Academy focused on promoting our European Spring manifesto and and the way each of us can contribute to this unique endeavour.

Live in Leipzig? Find out what our DiEM25 activists have been up to and get involved!

Carpe DiET is a DiEM25 – Porto initiative. We join meals and minds, to hang out and act. Become a democracy’s “gourmand”.

On December 19, our DiEM25 volunteer groups (DSCs) in Lisbon and Oeiras held a joint meeting for all their members and all DiEMers based in the Lisbon area.

How Brexit could lead to Britain becoming a land of the rich! The UK’s EU referendum campaign was one of the most divisive campaigns in modern British history: the question whether the UK should remain or leave the EU split the nation, families and friends. Brexit lies by the Leave campaign! The Leave campaign, funded 

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There is no more hopeful institution on the world stage than the UN, but it needs reform and structural changes.

DiEM25 is changing the way we do politics and fund our campaigns. From our first day, we declared that we shall not be receiving money from bankers, Brussels, oligarchs and assorted vested interests – that we would struggle with whatever funding our activists could provide from their meagre resources. Today, faced with the uphill struggle of participating 

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This auction will support DiEM25’s transnational campaign, featuring works by a wide range of international artists who share the vision of a democratic Europe.

Our Green New Deal for Europe will be heading to ballot boxes everywhere in Europe this coming May.

The world has never needed more whistleblowers more. And yet whistleblowers have never face greater fear and uncertainty for speaking out against governments and corporations.

The fight for democracy in Europe cannot be uncoupled from the struggle for justice around the world.

With xenophobic and authoritarian forces rising across the EU, economies not yet back to pre-2008 levels, Eurozone ‘exits’ becoming more likely and climate catastrophe on the horizon, it’s time to stop what we’re doing and rethink.

Varoufakis outlined his political programme’s key proposals.

Our thoughts are with all Polish citizens who want to commemorate Mayor Adamowicz and go out on the streets in silent protest marches against hate and aggression.

Far too little was achieved — and with climate destruction on the horizon, Katowice will mostly be remembered for the common “rulebook” of procedures and guidelines that delegates adopted there.

A Belgian-Canadian university student and DiEM25 member is facing up to eight years of jail-time after being arrested during a spontaneous protest in front of the Hungarian Parliament on the evening of December 12. Adrien Beauduin, a PhD student in Gender Studies at Central European University, was arrested along with four other protesters, who are 

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We have recently received confirmation that he has been charged in secret so as to have him extradited to the USA as soon as he can be arrested.

We call upon citizens of the EU to stand up and make their resistance stronger than the borders which the governments are building.

The new EU target of 37.5% reduction in new car emissions by 2030 needs to be backed up by sufficient investment in green technology and jobs.

The International Monetary Fund [IMF] now publicly condemns austerity policies but little has been done to turn away from them.

Our asylum system will forbid Europe from returning asylum-seekers to a country in which they would be in likely danger of persecution.

They have been busy supporting DiEM25’s UK National Collective and engaging in the local community too.

Under my Green New Deal, €500bn a year can be created without raising taxes – and it may tempt Britain back to the fold.

The protests reveal a France that is struggling to make ends meet.

During the crisis twenty-five percent of the Greek economy vanished for good.

DiEM25 invites all communities to take to the streets, spread the word, and promote our message: With DiEM25, against Climate Change.

Our Progressive International will reclaim our communities, our cities, our countries, and our planet with a bold International New Deal that we will work, together, to deliver.

The candidates to compete in Germany in next May’s European elections have been decided.

On the night of 11 November on the eve of the International Conference on Libya, the group of artists known as Stalker / Noantri Planetary Citizens arrived in Palermo, Sicily, with ten maritime rescue ladders, originally made in 2004 with the Pakistani crew of a ship impounded in the port of Naples, and restored over 

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Musician, Bobby Gillespie, social worker, Jane Sanders and human-rights lawyer, George Bizos, complete the latest group of influential personalities to join DiEM25.

In spite of fear, fake news and voter suppression, Americans proved that hope survives. Let’s keep this light burning!

On October 12, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Berlin with a clear message: we are indivisible!

Our western societies have never completely conquered antisemitism, and it is our generation’s task to do this.

We at DiEM25 express solidarity and support to all Brazilians during this difficult time — especially the opposition, which Jair Bolsonaro has threatened with persecution and violence.

We welcomed Actúa and Nouvelle Donne to our European Spring alliance and agreed the final common progressive agenda that we will take to the ballots in 2019.

The European Spring will arrive in Frankfurt am Main on October 26, 2018, to mark the beginning of the democratisation of Europe in Germany.

The new “protocol” regulating Julian Assange’s visits, communications and right to medical assistance remain inhumane. We will continue pushing for Julian Assange’s freedom until he is released.

On October 10, DiEM25 and DiEM Voice brought together more than 250 people for their “Here and Now” event at the Platform Theatre, Central Saint Martins.

We bundle progressive forces across Europe to jointly defend the attacks by nationalists, right-wing populists and rabble-rouser on our core values.

To defeat transnational corporate powers such as Ryanair, we must widen our mobilisation strategies and widen our understanding of democratic accountability.

The event was a huge success — and DiEM25 Stockholm received great feedback, questions, and input for the road ahead.

Yanis Varoufakis speaks to Spain’s La Razón on Brexit, the EU and DiEM25´s progessive answer to the “Nationalist International”.

The basic principle of DiEM25 – and MeRA25′ of course – is our internal democratic processes. MeRA25′ electoral program was voted in favour by 97,73%! Besides the vote on the program as a whole, there were five individual votes regarding the following fields: Conversion of medical and law schools to exclusively postgraduate schools, according to the 

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 To all DiEM25 members Friends, comrades, DiEMers, Today I am writing to you in my capacity as Secretary of MeRA25, DiEM25’s Greek electoral wing. Today, we begin voting on MeRA25’s electoral program. This is a remarkable moment. Think about it: DiEM25 is developing transnational democracy for the first time in Europe’s history, indeed globally. 

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The pair described the urgent need for a ‘Progressive International’ that can bring together people across the globe around a vision of shared prosperity, security and dignity for all.

We do not fetishise the euro, nor the drachma. But we are determined to liberate Greek Democracy and end our country’s desertification!

The German electoral wing of European Spring is joined by parties in France, Denmark, Poland, and Portugal: a coalition that grows by the day to fight for democracy and solidarity in Europe.

On October 10, “Here and Now: A Creative Vision for Europe” will bring together Srećko Horvat, Danae Stratou, Yanis Varoufakis, Bobby Gillespie and Rosemary Bechler at the Platform Theatre of Central Saint Martins to consider the role of culture in the fight for the future of Europe. With a range of performance, presentation, and discussion, the event 

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Fellow Europeans must stand with and support Romanians as they challenge authoritarianism and corruption in their government.

According to Human Rights Watch, there have been 85 unlawful coalition strikes, resulting in the death of almost 1000 civilians.

We deeply despise the outrageous Nazi riots that took place in the city of Chemnitz on Monday.

Meet the women and men chosen to guide our movement in the months ahead!

Join us in Belgrade on September 15-17 for the first-ever DiEM25 Academy! Don’t miss this unique chance to meet activists from all over Europe and to learn how to take campaigning to the next level.

Article 135 of the Spanish Constitution means that the country is subject to debt. To restore democracy, we demand the repeal of Article 135.

On Saturday 30 June, a diverse of group activists – from different countries, organisations, and political persuasions — met at the Kulturni dom of Gorizia.

Xenophobia and racism are flourishing while gatekeepers are ‘protecting’ the “Fortress Europe”.

Your donation will help make a difference to the people of Greece who lost everything in the fires.

Climate change caused by fossil fuels affect the entire planet. But the most devastated and exposed countries are those from which most of today’s refugees and migrants come.

The struggle to protect newcomers is not restricted to the statehouse. As Elin Ersson has shown, we all have a role to play: at home, in school, and even on the airplane.

The call for radical change used to come only from the outside. Now, even insiders like Barack Obama can see the system’s failure. We must build on this consensus.

Only a progressive international can fend off the new wave of nationalist movements and fight the failing establishment that gave life to them.

You are all now invited to amend and propose ideas for our European Spring policy programme that we will take to the May 2019 European Parliament elections.

For the first time ever, a European political programme includes seismic vulnerability and hazard reduction among its top priorities – not just at a national scale, but at a European one.

The Nicaraguan government has tried to silence students’ demands for social justice, accountability and opening of democratic spaces with bullets.

At the opening on July 14, short welcoming speeches will be delivered by the Mayor of Pollença as well as by the director of the Museu de Pollença, Andreu  Aguilo, the artist Danae Stratou and the curator Ines Muñozcano.

An active alliance of civil society organisations and activists has founded The Pier, and DiEM25 activists are stepping up to support this cause.

Not only do we, the members of DiEM25 participating in the European Spring, want to bring the hope of a renewed Europe, but with it the organisational and political tool to achieve it.

The 28 governments meeting in Brussels for the last European Council summit have abdicated their moral and political responsibility towards Europe’s citizens and towards future generations. Here is the alternative of DiEM25.

DiEM25’s position on Copyright Reform: democratise technology instead of allowing it to be used as a giant censorship machine in the interest of big business.

Just like DiEM25, El Día Después is not about supporting a single party or politician, but a shared vision for the country’s future [Mexico].

We have definitive proof: migrant and refugee populations work hard and deliver prosperity to their host nations.

With partners from all corners of Europe, our common list for the 2019 European elections takes shape at a packed event in Poland.

The Provincial Court of Navarre has decided to release on bail the five men it considers guilty of abusing an 18-year-old girl during the San Fermín festival in Pamplona in 2016. The decision is a new blow to a society that is aware of the fight against male violence and once again, thousands of women 

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DiEM25 will be at the forefront of the transnational “European Spring” list that will campaign for the European Parliament with a unified election programme.

DiEM25 expresses its solidarity with Julian Assange and Wikileaks and calls upon all progressives to support his bid for life and liberty.

In Germany, then, we have a showdown. Even if the matter looks settled for the moment, it is almost certain that this new “coalition of the willing” will strike again.

When the Italian government shuts its ports to migrants, it is time for cities to disobey and keep them open.

We passed the first draft of the common progressive agenda that we will take to the ballots in 2019.

This is why European Spring is working hard on a coherent, comprehensive New Deal for Europe

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We obtained a first, very important victory today: but this is only the first battle.

On Saturday, 2 June, 70 members from all over Germany came together in Frankfurt to found the electoral wing “Demokratie in Europa DiEM25” and bring our fight to the German ballot box.

Last week, MeRA25 members gathered to discuss a wide range of policy priorities in order to develop a diverse, coherent, and comprehensive policy agenda.

You are all invited!

Spain must now seize the opportunity not only to halt austerity, but also to repair and rebuild our common European project.

Take part in the open discussion about the prospects of DiEM25 in Italy, in case of early elections.

May 14 reminded us that LGBT rights demand attention throughout a divided Europe.

We need to repeal the eighth to allow for compassion, care and choice for Irish women.

After launching MeRA25 last March in Greece, DiEM25 will activate its second ‘electoral wing’ next week in Frankfurt.

I don’t think there is any doubt that the powerful entities exposed by WikiLeaks want to destroy it and I don’t think there is any doubt that Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks team face huge legal and extralegal risks.

Over the last two months in Italy, 20 regional assemblies have been held that have elected as many regional coordinators. And on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 May in Rome, DiEM25 convened the first National Congress for Italy.

Yanis Varoufakis and Mr Pravin Gordham agreed to establish a dialogue between the African National Congress (ANC) and DiEM25.

Engaging Eastern Europe is crucial to answering the question of which kind of Europe we want.

An open letter to DiEM25 members from DiEM25 Belfast DSC1.

Last Tuesday, the Bavarian federal parliament passed a new law that gives unreasonable and excessive powers to its police. The legislation comes less than one week after 35,000 people protested against the law at the biggest demonstration in Munich in half a decade. The Bavarian parliament has full authority of its police, according to federalisation 

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Most recent scientific calculations show that tourism has much worse carbon emissions than previously believed. It is imperative that we design and implement meaningful green transition policies.

John Page suggested that workers could benefit from three areas that would be freed of total or partial EU control: industrial strategy, State support for SMEs and life-long learning.

Europe must condemn an American foreign policy that is blatantly guided by cynical geopolitical goals in the region, for the sake of which the human rights of the Palestinians are willingly sacrificed.

In the light of this historic defeat – and similar losses to social democratic parties across Europe – we are left to wonder: is there a future for progressive politics in Italy?

So on this “Europe Day” let’s reflect on what kind of a Europe we have, why we have it, and how to move towards a new one that can make us proud to be a part of.

Letter to Pablo Iglesias, Catarina Martins and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Here are the conclusions of the second meeting among the founders of European Spring, Europe’s pioneer transnational list.

It was a great day for DiEM. We spent the day speaking face-to-face with each other, giving differences a common ground, returning to what has brought us together in the first place.

The labour market must not descend further in flexibilization, union demolition, and rising inequality — but toward fair and universal workers’ rights.

For the European project to remain relevant to European citizens – and indeed, for it to survive – it needs sensible, long-term projects, and to imagine ambitious and courageous solutions. That’s why DiEM25 offers strong alternatives in its Green New Deal policy proposals that will lift Europe out of its multiple crises, and bring it boldly into the 21st century.

We’ve been quite busy in Barcelona over the past few weeks.

Yanis Varoufakis’s vision for a more democratic Europe.

DiEM25 was among the first movements to provide coverage of the unfolding protests in Armenia, and its solidarity with the citizens of that country was invaluable.

Today, May 1, we struggle not to forget the sacrifices of generations of workers to etch onto the world’s collective conscience the crucial principle that labour is not, and can never be, just another commodity.

It is essential that we can propose European citizens and workers an alternative programme that puts social justice and the reduction of inequality at the heart of our new project for Europe.

Progressive political forces from across the continent gather in Lisbon to advance their common European agenda ahead of next year’s European Parliament elections.

The post BREXIT landscape sees two rival blocs with totally different, seemingly irreconcilable national aspirations. Welcome to my world.

European austerity is a politics of power. It’s a banker protection racket. And the fact is, the strategy has now failed.

From Yanis Varoufakis (MeRA25-DiEM25) and Luigi de Magistris (DemA).

The list’s co-founders, as well as observers representing various political forces from across Europe, will hold their second meeting to continue developing the effort to present a united political front in next year’s European Parliament Elections.

Contrary to President Macron’s understanding of the authority of democracy, DiEM25 is devoted to constituting a horizontal, spontaneous and rhizomatic form of political and social organization, the legitimation of which depends on the will of freely associating citizens and groups of citizens.

In an ambitious future, education as a common good means an education enjoyed by the whole community, built by citizens culturally capable of influencing, acting and imagining alternatives.

The solution: break down Facebook’s monopolies.

If we want to ease the suffering of the Syrian people, European democrats must first confront our governments’ tendency to embrace militarism.

The French economy might turn out to be the toast of Brussels, but the day to day experience for the French people will not endear them to liberal politics and the one who came to power promising to change it all.

Citizens have taken to the streets in Armenia’s capital to protest the appointment of Serj Sargsyan, the country’s outgoing president, as leader-for-life.

The Syrian crisis is not only a crisis in Syria. It is also a crisis of Europe itself.

Proposed EU legislation wants to turn scientific publications into profit. We must mobilize to protect the scientific community and block the copyright reform.

We received a message today which shocked us. We share it withholding the names of those involved, for obvious reasons. “So, I lived to see that, too! Today I got fired from my job as Scientific Advisor for an organization that cooperates with a German organization. The “justification” given was I am involved in DiEM25 

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It remains to be seen how much more draconian Hungary will become in this new term.

The conviction and imprisonment of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is an offensive against the Brazilian people and their right to democratic self-determination.

Recently, DSC Lyon 1 was invited to participate in a seminar hosted by the Union of European Federalists

Biofuel industry is geared away from sustainability and toward investor greed. We need to develop new democratic and transparent decision-making processes.

Here are the conclusions of the first meeting among the founders of Europe’s pioneer transnational list.

Statement by DiEM25’s Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis.

Spasmodic actions from the EU reveal that there is no solid long-term plan for tax evasion and channeling tax money transparently.

We had a full house on Monday for the launch in Athens of the MeRA25 party, DiEM25’s electoral wing in Greece.

Why former Greek finance minister and co-founder of DiEM25 – a pan-European movement for democratising the EU – accepted the invitation to give Kingston University’s sixth annual Shakespeare lecture at the Rose Theatre.

Join us as we continue to make history on March 26 when we’ll launch MeRA25, DiEM25’s electoral wing in Greece.

Europeans must to take to the streets until residential evictions no longer sweep through our cities.

The recent general election in Italy reflected the continental collapse of support for political parties that hail from the European establishment.

What is there left to say on a dark day like today? How can we even respond with words to what has happened in Afrin? The truth is, we can’t It’s just not possible to describe what has occurred. We can only express our heartfelt human warmth and solidarity with those who have lost their 

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We need to resist the neoliberal grip of the European Establishment. No new government will truly represent peoples’ interests unless we speak up!

EU representatives have to stop blocking the process and start contributing constructively, just as is demanded of them from the European Parliament.

A number of activists in the Czech Republic are facing years in prison for having broken a law called: the right to the house.

Eurozone reforms could reshape Europe. But where exactly are the Dutch, the largest net contributor to the EU?

We demand that the European Parliament not only discusses Martin Selmayr’s gate, but that it also sets up a specific parliamentary committee of enquiry on transparency.

Europe’s perverse refugee policy: create impossible barriers even for those who deserve protection unambiguously.

Today, March 10, 2018, will be a date to be remembered. For the very first time, national, regional and municipal political forces from across the continent assembled with a view to bring about change and reconstruct the European Union – bottom-up, transnationally.

The feminism developed in recent years relates the legitimate claim of women’s full citizenship within the polis with a more symbolic – but not less profound – demand of full citizenship of femininity in politics.

DiEM25 Galicia-DSC Manifesto in support of today’s women’s strike.

Kate Fristic on how austerity policies affect women and men in different ways.

Croatia should not join the Eurozone. Not yet.

On March 10 we’ll take the initial steps toward getting back our cities, our regions, our countries, our environment, our Europe.

We need to establish party wings while ensuring that the movement takes the lead. We need these dialectics in our struggle for more democracy in Europe (and beyond). And we must centre the women’s struggle along the way.

With very limited resources, virtually no access to media, loose infrastructure and entirely voluntary activist base, the Initiative managed to establish itself as one of the most relevant opposition forces in Belgrade. So while this might not have been an electoral victory, it was a victory of an idea.

Let us celebrate 8 March both as a day marking considerable progress this year, but also as a special day destined to disappear because we will continue to fight, everywhere, whatever the odds against us, until we attain genuine equality, respect and dignity.

Labour’s plans are among the most hopeful developments in the Brexit process so far, and are strikingly similar to DiEM25’s proposal for a “Norway model” of relationship with the EU to achieve both a more progressive UK and a more democratic EU.

  Afrin, you are more than just the horrible pictures of wounded men and women and children that make me cry.

In just three weeks we launch MeRA25, our ‘electoral wing’ in Greece. Here’s how you can help make it a success.

As a progressive movement, proposing some of the most radical and interesting ideas in Europe, DiEM25 must make greater efforts to call out gender-specific economic inequality.

Facing a media blackout, Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own activists and DiEM25 are campaigning door-to-door to defeat the major parties they seek to wrestle from power in next Sunday’s municipal elections.

We must call for a serious and effective investigation, powered by the Slovak journalists that this killing attempted to silence: to join forces to properly and thoroughly investigate what Kuciak was investigating. That would be a true homage to his death.

While we diverge with Macron on many fundamental policy matters, we value truth, evidence, and respectful discourse in our movement.

Saleh Muslim is a figurehead of the Rojava revolution. We call for EU member states to guarantee his protection and freedom of movement, and to reject all calls for extradition to Turkey.

Germany has a new coalition agreement, and eurozone reforms are part of it.

The European Commission is hoping that the Eurozone budget and other measures will shore the union up to withstand any further shocks

German and France defense ministers urge greater military spending to fight terrorism. It is progressives to challenge the war-mongering and push for progressive change.

The plans call for the EU’s ‘Precautionary Principle’ — which places an onus on traders to prove that something is safe before it is sold — to be scrapped.

The SPD’s inability to present a clear alternative to prevailing neoliberalism and austerity has been a boon to the AfD and a capitulation to the CDU narrative.

The DUP’s actions are an abrogation of responsibility and an unwillingness to make the hard decisions necessary to govern in the interests of all its fellow citizens.

Fresh allegations have emerged that EU Structural Funds worth billions of Euros have been awarded to friends and family of Victor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary.

We’re launching ΜέΡΑ25 (MeRA25), DiEM25’s political party in Greece, to revive the spirit of the Greek Spring and shatter Brussels’ dead-end agenda in 2019!

DiEM25’s members overwhelmingly approved the name of our new Greek electoral wing – the political party with which DiEM25 will contest elections in Greece, returning the spirit of the Greek Spring to the place of its birth.

Paul Krugman’s opinion article describes a fragile recovery of the European economy. But we should be sceptical about whose interests are properly considered by the EU’s economic policymakers.

Although Bitcoin appears to have fallen into familiar traps, we shouldn’t lose sight of the potential of the underlying technology.

After recent events in Macerata, Italy, we are beginning to realise that we need thousands of daily acts of resistance to banish fascist ideology.

The Berlin birthday gatherings celebrated our progress – and set out an agenda for building on it as we move toward the 2019 European elections.

Support us to offer an alternative path for the Eurocrisis’ front-line country.

Europe’s migrants are being deported to conditions of torture, abuse, and incarceration – and Europe’s governments are complicit. Is this the face we show to the world?

Gender inequalities still exist throughout our European Union. Europeans have a duty to overcome these, and drive forward the movement for equity.

Wieser likes those who promote TINA. DiEM25 is here to challenge this and bring change.

While millions are used as bargaining chips in this ever more farcical tragi-comedy…

Let us not be deceived by Macron’s pretended “Europeanist” stance.

DSC-Belgrade teams up with ‘Don’t Let Belgrade D[r]own’ ahead of the municipal elections next March.

Renewed anti-corruption protests in Romania reveal a malaise stretching all across South-Eastern Europe.

Here’s a roundup of some of our activities from the past few days. Exciting times!

ECB is lacking the transparency owed to a European democracy. And it’s harming Europeans.

When EU institution officials cultivate Euroscepticism, then EU is bound to crash if people (all of us) do not take progressive action.

DSC-Berlin is happy to invite you to our birthday celebration from February 9 to February 11 in… Berlin!

Two young political activists looking at #MeToo.

DSC-Belgrade is teaming up with “Don’t let Belgrade d(r)own”, a grassroots initiative to bring the city back to its citizens.

We condemn the Belgian government’s plans to restrict the human rights of private citizens providing food and shelter for refugees and migrants.

We must tackle AI’s impact on social classes and the concentration of capital it generates.

A delegation of DiEM25 members are meeting with potential ‘electoral wing’ partners in Paris ahead of the 2019 EU Parliament Elections.

An HIV epidemic resulting from the conflict in Ukraine reminds us of our need to keep peaceful coexistence high on our agenda.

DiEM25 could participate in its first electoral contest as soon as this March!

Scientific advances are going commercial and ‘for profit’. Who should resist capitalism’s greed? Scientists? Policy makers? Us?

The European South met for the fourth time and concluded with no plan, no agenda, no proposals.

An open letter to Emmanuel Macron on his plans to overhaul French media laws to combat the spread of “fake news”.

Merkel and Schulz know how to negotiate, but European democracy is non-negotiable.

DiEM25 is the living proof that the lessons from our dark past can be learnt and transformed into constructive resolutions for our future.

In 2017 we took crucial steps. In 2018 we must do better so that, by May 2019, we can say that we made a meaningful difference.

DiEM25 members across Europe vote in the grassroots activists who will lead our movement’s first National Collectives.

DiEM25’s members in Catalonia have prepared a letter for the candidates to embrace our movement’s ideals and objectives.
Check which candidates have signed the letter.

Stop the far-right from gaining momentum.

Martin Schulz’ proposals for a United States of Europe by 2025 are already in line with DiEM25 proposals. Is he planning to join us?

Who will coordinate DiEM25’s efforts in Germany, Italy, Greece and Belgium? You decide!

This confirms our warnings that Greece has been used as an ‘austerity laboratory’ to test and generate methods to be exported to the rest of the Eurozone.

DiEMers in Berlin launch a new campaign to strengthen European democracy via the Bundestag.

An address at the Oxford Guild, Oxford University, on passionate believers who are troublemakers, Brexit negotiations, simulating a federation and other conundrums, November 28, 2017.

To fight for climate change does not mean to fight for new/better policies but to fight against capitalism.

Our growing group of National Collectives is looking for candidates. Interested in coordinating our work in Germany, Italy, Greece and Belgium? Read on!

Irish Senator Alice-Mary Higgins, activist Ulf Clerwall and film-maker Avi Lewis complete the latest group of influential personalities to join our movement’s Advisory Panel.

The European Council’s decision to overrule the European Parliament is a direct show of contempt towards citizens and their sadly flawed European democratic tools.

Working conditions are worsening all over Europe and DiEM25 activists are joining the struggle to reverse the trend.

It is crucial to learn from the example of Eastern Europe if we don’t want to see the whole of Europe collapsing in this way.

DiEM25 Italy proposes how our movement could campaign to bring about a democratic constitution to replace all European Treaties.

New studies show how Europe has a long history of income unfairness. The economic crisis is making it worse.

Can it be that lucrative arms deals have deafened the west to the anguished cries of the Yemeni population?

A letter from Yanis Varoufakis about DiEM25’s ‘electoral wing’ and the path to 2019.

Last Sunday, Warsaw once again hosted on its streets the March of Independence, an annual march of nationalists and neofascists. Authorities turned a blind eye.

An interview with DiEM25’s CC member Lorenzo Marsili about what our ‘electoral wing’ actually means, and the movement’s roadmap for transforming Europe.

Silicon Valley’s innovations should first pass through a “social” filter before going mainstream.

Yanis Varoufakis puts forward a new, progressive pan-European policy framework for issues of independence in European regions

Listen to the talk delivered at The Royal Society in London on November 7, 2017.

The Catalonia crisis as an opportunity for Europe to re-define sovereignty, statehood and European democracy.

Landmark internal vote brings our European New Deal a step closer to ‘a ballot box near you’

A massive new leak exposes the tax havens of the mega-rich, reminding us that we need desperately to fix the system.

An open letter concerning the upholding of the Rule of Law in the European Union, co-signed by 188 scholars, politicians, public intellectuals and members of the European Parliament and sent on November 3, 2017.

Q&A with the authors of the four proposals on how our movement can establish an ‘electoral wing’.

A member of our local group in Munich explains why we should all support the ‘#Raus-aus-der-Steinkohle’ campaign.

Poverty alleviation can jeopardise climate change goals, scientists say. We need to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Our efforts run the risk of unravelling, unless we can find a suitable political and electoral vehicle for our ideas and our actions.

Thought piece on DiEM25’s electoral wing by Dutch DiEM25 members.

On November 1, DiEMers across Europe will be voting on the most important decision since our movement’s launch: whether or not we’ll establish an ‘electoral wing’.

What happened when 100 DiEMers got together in Germany’s financial capital last week.

Why do we want to form an electoral wing, and why now? Join Srećko for a chat to discuss all of this and more!

The capitalist food industry is making our planet unsustainable. Agriculture is at risk. Malnutrition is a global problem.

Dijsselbloem and Schäuble decided to terminate their Eurogroup membership and did so without abiding by any due process. A perfect example of undemocratic Europe.

There are thousands of refugees still needing our attention and solidarity as European and global institutions fail to provide basic help and support.

A series of progressive EP resolutions are set to be killed by the European Council. This is a brutal reminder of the power balance in Brussels.

There can be no political freedom without artistic freedom.

Czech parliamentary elections see a big success for right-wing and far-right parties.

Romania could be on the path to the obliteration of any social agenda and a restoration of fiscal conservatism.

While the world focuses on climate change, the EU is failing to address another critical environmental problem: the health of our seas.

The aims of the idealists who conceived of the European Project have been eclipsed by more short-term and vainglorious ends.

The murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is a terrible blow for European democracy. We must not tolerate it.

Here’s a video from our event in Brussels last month, when DiEMers from across Europe – and beyond – gathered to present a real progressive alternative for the EU.

US President Donald Trump’s refusal to recertify the Iran Nuclear Deal is just the latest in a series of decisions that threaten global stability.

Reporter gets carried away by DiEM25’s pan-European plans and offers a creative interpretation of Yanis’ words.

Old and new DiEMers, including representatives of our Provisional National Collective (PNC), got together with Yanis on Sunday.

As a mediator between West and East, between Central Europe and the Balkans, Austria plays a very important role in mirroring emerging trends in Europe. Voter results should be a wake-up call for progressive movements, like DiEM25, to push harder and stronger for their positions.

Our electoral wing, if members greenlight it, would allow us to take our fight with the Establishment to the next level – a historic, first-of-its-kind pan-European political force that will return power to you. To the people. To us all.

Yanis Varoufakis is now in Paris to spread our movement’s message and strengthen its machinery in France.

A call to our fellow DiEMers from Eastern Europe to join us and to bring us closer to other Europeans with different histories in the west, south and north.

Conservative groups in the country are trying to ban gay marriage outright.

New report finds 98% of the European Central Bank’s official advisers are from the finance industry.

The Greek economy is shrinking and is bound to extremely high primary surpluses and billions of debt to be repaid in the next years and decades.

Join Yanis Varoufakis’ second Facebook Live videochat tonight! Do you have any questions for him?

Thousands join us as we put forward DiEM25’s proposals at stops across Italy

The Catalan question for us is not a national question, nor a question of a nation state, but a question of democracy.

How DiEM25 could become ‘a hotbed of grassroots democracy capable of supranational solutions’, according to our CC member Rosemary Bechler.

True democratic control of European policies, that bypasses non-democratic institutions like the Eurogroup, the European Commission or the European Council, is the only hope for Europe.

The bloc’s non-reaction to the strong-arm tactics of the Spanish government risks boosting far-right governments in countries like Hungary or Poland.

Our European New Deal was presented as a stabilisation program to pave the way towards a new European constitution.

The political dissolution of the EU seems inevitable, as racism and nationalism are growing in many countries of Europe. But we must remember the words of John Maynard Keynes: the inevitable generally does not happen, because the unpredictable prevails instead. DiEM25 has this function: helping the unpredictable to emerge.

The FDP’s ascension will see to it that Wolfgang Schäuble’s departure will not alter the policy of doing whatever it takes to prevent the eurozone ‘s evolution into a sustainable macroeconomy.

G20 forecasting prolongs the infinite growth paradigm into the future, while G20 backcasting draws strategic conclusions for present action leaving the paradigm still intact.

“Parties who are not willing to disobey the troika, cannot make any promises to the people and keep them.”

An open proposal to DiEM25 members for our movement to create an ‘electoral wing’.

Starting tomorrow, our very own Yanis Varoufakis and Lorenzo Marsili will be touring Italy. Their mission? To meet activists and political figures and put forward DiEM25’s proposals for tackling Europe’s common problems.

The current events taking place in Catalonia are worrisome to DiEM25, for they touch on the very essence of some of our movement’s founding principles, particularly our defence of democracy and of people’s rights to decide their future.

This is not a time for rest and reflection – our window of opportunity to make progressive change happen is closing fast.

It is time for German voters to realize that a vote for the CDU is a vote for short-term rewards and a long-term disastrous breakup of the EU.

We should envision the next German chancellor addressing all criticism on matters of climate change by accelerating Germany’s green transition and becoming a world leader in eliminating CO2 emissions.

It is greatly disappointing that the federal election campaign has been so parochial, so empty of any serious debate on Europe.

Political problems must always be solved politically, by discussing and proposing solutions to all kinds of problems. Repression is never the solution.

We support moves like Sanders’ new health care bill, as progressive proposals that put people first.

Evidence points to a wide chasm between people’s lived experiences and the European Commission’s message of triumph.

Portugal is on the path to solid economic recovery, but the structural flaws of the Eurozone, that contributed heavily to the country’s crisis persist.

At DiEM25, we agree with the logic of a universal basic income. Critically, however, we believe that the money should not come from additional taxes or the government. We propose UBD instead: a universal basic dividend.

Read DiEM25´s policy proposals ahead of this month’s German federal elections.

Surveillance drones and other such science-fiction security measures risk taking Northern Ireland back to the darkest period of its history.

Pandering to big business by maximising its profitability at the expense of workers is only a consequence of the Schäuble plan to rid the EU of its core values and quash its peoples’ democratic yearning.

Over 1,500 people attended, including hundreds of DiEM25 activists from across the continent…

All Europe’s hopes are pinned on the German elections on September 24th.

Developing DiEM25’s constituent process: Part II of a member of the London DSC’s contribution to our discussion.

Open letter to some German journalists.

Developing DiEM25’s constituent process: A member of the London DSC’s contribution to our discussion.

DiEM25 supports the strike and the demands for a living wage and the right to join a union.

North Korea’s sixth nuclear test, which it apparently conducted today, comes while the world’s other nuclear powers are arming up.

Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal, putting more than half of the world’s cities at risk.

Meet the women and men chosen to guide our movement in the months ahead!

Once again, we are shocked and heartbroken by another outrageous terror attack in less than a week — this time in Barcelona.

As the world has darkened, so has our mood. Snarkiness, cynicism and divisiveness have become the order of the day. This renders us immobile and incapable of addressing the multiple threats confronting us, at a time when we need to be as strong, cooperative and positive as possible.

We at DiEM25 stand in solidarity with the counter-protesters and with the victims of this act of vicious extremism. We stand up for a bold multiculturalism from below.

The agreement between the EU and Turkey on refugees is one more example of how hypocrisy is becoming an integral part of how the EU deals with major challenges.

The current attack on the independence of the judiciary is an element of a broader regime change pushed by the ruling Law and Justice party and its chairman, Jarosław Kaczyński.

DiEM25 Barcelona DSC invites you to attend “Sol & cafè & política”. A few days to talk about Europe.

Protesters are blocking the streets, helicopters are hovering the sky and DiEM25 is in the middle of it all. Join our call for “Constructive Disobedience” tonight at 7.30pm from Hamburg’s University (live stream available).

All citizens have the right to freely express their opinions and to gather peacefully for protest. The freedom of assembly, as well as freedom of expression, is a basic pillar of every free and pluralistic society.

In accordance with DiEM25’s Organising Principles, 6 positions in the Coordinating Collective (CC) will be contested in an open election in August.

On July 7-8 the G20 Summit is happening in Hamburg. The city’s authorities plan to transform it into a democracy-free zone of complete surveillance, enforced by paramilitary means. We wrote the letter below to the Senate of Hamburg to protest.

Winning votes by erecting fences and violating international law on refugees is the last resort of politicians ready to sacrifice their nation’s integrity for their own miserable petty reasons.

As journalists at the international press agency Pressenza and activists of the Humanist association “World without Wars and Violence”, we intend to make a contribution to the debate in DiEM25 and the development of an innovative and courageous platform for the 2018 European elections.

Here is the English version of DiEM25’s New Deal For Greece, our response to TINA and the Eurogroup’s extend and pretend policies.

Since 2008 more people on earth are living in cities than in the country. Until 2030 there will be 5 billion people in cities. Therefor urbanisation is a planned development. In which direction this plan will develop and who is going to have the right to a say in the matter will be another question. 

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In the Italian municipal elections, the Coordinating Collective supports citizens-led coalitions that are close to DiEM25’s manifesto, to create a network of Rebel Cities.

Our French members have taken a different route to bring DiEM25 into the electoral debate and push for a progressive alliance at the ballot: they gave a variety of candidates running in the upcoming parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18 the chance to embrace our movement’s aims.

Organised by DiEM25 Barcelona DSC in collaboration with CCAR (Catalan Commission for Aid to Refugees).

DiEM25 was not created just to support existing political parties. Our task is tougher and more important than this: it is to forge the Progressive International that Europe needs.

On May 28, we published to our members a list of fifteen progressive parliamentary candidates standing in the UK general election on June 8 whom we would like to publicly endorse for the last few days of the campaign. Every DiEM25 member, including non-UK members, had a vote in this, and the results are now in!

A weekend-long event will put Dublin at the heart of progressive European politics

The next step toward 2019: the formation of the first transnational pan-European political party, which is necessary to give the European New Deal electoral expression.

Last week, DiEM25 held its first-ever event in Athens, ground-zero of the Euro Crisis and of course our co-founder Yanis Varoufakis’ home turf. Here’s a timeline of what happened: The week started off with a bang: Greece’s opposition party shamelessly attacked us, so we responded in kind. The DiEM25 Greece team put out a series 

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This week in Berlin, we shall answer an important question: How can we take our European New Deal to the ballot box in every corner of Europe, and make it a reality?

Together we have chosen to support Zagreb is OURS! Now let’s help them succeed.

As DiEM25 erupts onto Greece’s political scene, the country’s leading opposition party wasted no time in attacking us.

Yanis Varoufakis: “When my country was being bullied by Europe’s pro-austerity establishment, Macron was a rare ally. More importantly, he’s all that stands between France and the fascism of Marine Le Pen”

In an op-ed in Le Monde, Yanis calls upon French progressives to vote for Macron in the second round of France’s Presidential election. The article explains his recommendation to French voters.

The second round of the French presidential election is not about voting for the lesser of two evils. It’s about bringing progressives together to vote against evil itself.

DiEM25’s co-founder meets with the outgoing President, the President-elect, the Foreign Minister, and top economic officials.

We feel that it is about time DiEM25 should return to Greece, thereby returning the spirit of the Greek Spring to its birthplace, in spite of the different “Kazimirs” of Greece and other countries. And this is what we are doing by starting from Thessaloniki on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th of April.

How we got here The situation in Turkey during the time before the referendum could well be described as a Chronicle of a Death Foretold . Erdogan used July’s failed coup attempt as an excuse to unleash a fierce manhunt against anyone standing in his way. Students, scholars, journalists and citizens who opposed his regime 

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Reason, hope and dignity – a call to contribute to the European movement that was inspired by the Athens Spring

It took a while…but now the DSC Berlin is ready to launch its very first DiEM-Lab! DiEM25 Berlin opens a new space to foster grassroots politics and democracy! On the 30th of April several activists, political organisations and local initiatives will gather at Technische Universität Berlin to discuss „How to build a Rebel City“. Speakers 

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For an inspiring example of internal democracy in action, look no further than DiEM25’s briefing paper on the French elections.

Brexit is government of the old, by the old, for the old – and it will perish with the old. Maturity could still mean that it is the right thing to do; only in Theresa May’s hands Brexit has become an attempt to restore a 17th century version of sovereignty that is bound to fail.

As it stands, the prospects for a stabilized eurozone do not look good. Business as usual — the establishment’s favored option — could soon produce a major Italian crisis that the eurozone cannot survive.

DiEM25 co-founder outlines how the movement plans to take its economic programme – launching tomorrow – to the people of Europe.

DiEM Voice aims to facilitates a democratic dialogue between people-participants across Europe, using art.

The idea of Europe is in retreat and the European Union seems to have entered into an apparently irreversible crisis. With Brexit, one great pillar of the European Union has already fallen. Others may follow – if not in this year’s election cycle then perhaps in the next.
“Take our country back!” is the proud message of Brexit supporters and an aspiration that we begin to encounter everywhere in Europe, even amongst left-wingers advocating a return to the nation-state.

Over three days of events and important announcements. And we invite you to be part of it!

We will be marching alongside a broad coalition of movements, trade unions and political actors to send an important message to anyone who will listen: we are determined to save the EU from itself.

Today is the one-year anniversary of the EU-Turkey deal on refugees that’s tearing families apart, inflicting unnecessary suffering on people who have already suffered the unimaginable and sending the worst message to the world about the values of Europe, our common home.

Underneath the ‘grey-right or green-right’ coalition government, which will most likely now emerge, several strong socio-economic and cultural changes are manifest, which constitute the deeper transformations in the Dutch political arena. And they may not be unique for The Netherlands.

Clearly, the EU institutions’ failures are so damaging that even those who want to destroy it understand the arguments of those of us who want to save it!

The world is suffering setbacks in Gender Politics. The repulsive statements and scandals of the Trump campaign are only one example for this. Poland’s government would like to abolish the already restricted right to safe and legal abortion which thousands of protesters, the black protests, have prevented so far. The German AfD wants to get rid of gender studies altogether and all too often we hear the word Genderwahnsinn – Gender madness.

Greece’s former finance minister, with German MEP, to hold press conference Wednesday, March 8, to announce filing a vital Freedom of Information request to the ECB.

On March 25, the day of an extraordinary European Council in Rome, we will strongly intervene in public discourse and media, launching a cultural and political path that will embrace the whole 2017.

Speech delivered by visual artist Jonas Staal at DiEM25’s launch in Amsterdam on February 26.

Last Saturday afternoon in Barcelona was momentous. A third of a million people came together to protest in our streets. It was the biggest march seen in Barcelona since the Iraq War demonstrations, almost fourteen years ago. The march has been plotted out from Barcelona’s heart to its shoreline, but even before we start moving 

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We know the ECB commissioned a legal opinion on the legality of those actions. And we want to read that opinion, but the ECB refuses to make it public.

#TheGreekFiles: DiEM25 launches petition to support freedom of information request for legal documents on the ECB’s closure of Greece’s banks in 2015.

#TheGreekFiles: DiEM25 launches petition to support freedom of information request for legal documents on the ECB’s closure of Greece’s banks in 2015.

To take back our countries, our regions and our cities, we need to reclaim common purpose amongst sovereign peoples. And to do this we need an internationalist, common, transnational European project. We need a European New Deal. This document outlines just that.

In February 2016, we launched our movement with a simple goal: to democratise Europe. Back then, the establishment media quickly dismissed us as ‘too radical’ and ‘utopian’, and went back to the business of preserving the status quo for their corporate and political masters. A year on, our journey to ‘radical utopia’ is going quite well!

In Berlin a broad alliance of local initiatives takes to the streets for social housing and self-determined organisation of the city by its inhabitants. Students of the Humboldt University of Berlin initiated this demonstration. What is exemplified by this demonstration is the consequence of extensive social change. A report. The students present at the demonstration 

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Yanis Varoufakis made his way to Britain recently as part of his tours of the continent, aiming to mobilise support for DiEM25 and its Progressive Agenda for Europe.

Warmongering has always been an instrument which is used by elites to neutralize social resistance. When people start to raise their voices against the poverty and inequality and when the elites sense that their power and privileges are under threat, they use nationalist rhetoric to redirect the anger of the oppressed people. By using cheap and flammable nationalist rhetoric they convince 

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