Democracy in Europe Movement 2025

The Danish government’s neoliberal approach to global warming is part of the problem.

“Without the eurobond, this European Union — or at least the Eurozone — has no future.”

Economists are ‘at war with COVID-19’, but they predicted the recession.

The European Union will unite or perish. DiEM25’s 3-point plan offers the only way towards unification.

We call on the governments of other countries to follow Portugal’s lead and grant migrants social services and healthcare.

The Eurogroup response is as ineffective in addressing the current crisis as it has been in addressing the previous one.

Here’s our 3-point plan to protect all European residents, avert an economic depression, and prevent the collapse of the Union.

Increasing privatisation of public infrastructure and services has rendered France’s hospitals vulnerable to COVID-19.

We cannot flee from the coronavirus — instead, it calls us to stay put and reevaluate our priorities as a society.

There will be a new normal. Since we are all at home, we can start imagining the new world.

“Everything is now possible” says Julian Assange from prison.

On Wednesday, 25th of March, Julian Assange’s lawyers will make a bail application at Westminster Magistrates Court.

Social distancing should only be physical; this crisis offers a unique opportunity to increase our social bonding and cooperation in safe ways.

Don’t wait for someone to ask you what you have been doing in 2020, join us by seizing this historic moment!

Stephanie Flanders, Yanis Varoufakis, Veronique de Rugy and Alistair Darling debate the economic impact of COVID-19 on the BBC World Service: ‘Coronavirus: The economic crisis – Just how bad will the downturn be and can anything be done to soften the blow?’.

Where women have seized the opportunity to lead, they have accomplished incredible feats on behalf of themselves and their communities. By combining women’s grassroots action and international solidarity, we can amplify their voices. In this way, we intend to bring more diverse voices to the forefront, so that we can eventually push them into those spaces where decisions are taken.

There is a deep connection between the tragedy of the rejection of migrants, the enforcement of austerity, and the memorandum that 62% of the Greek citizens had refused in July 2015. That event had a devastating effect on the European Unconscious: people internalised the impotence of democracy when facing financial power, and the humiliation of Greek democracy fed the desire of revenge against democracy itself.

The most asked question in France, after the shutdown of schools, was: since women constitute 70% of hospital staff, who is going to take care of the children? This year, in honour of International Women’s Day, DIEM25–together with human rights associations, women’s associations and numerous citizen–endeavoured to draw the attention of public authorities and the public to the daily violence against women in a country that claims to be modern and sophisticated.

Once again, the Eurogroup proved itself to be, not just dysfunctional, but a clear and present danger for Europeans.

As a result of austerity measures, a major crisis is now unfolding across Europe as the lack of beds, equipment and staff has forced doctors and nurses to start making impossible decisions about who to save. 

The COVID-19 global crisis is accelerating, and it looks like things may get worse before they get better. And while we hope that you are able take care of yourself and your loved ones during these trying times, know this: You’re not alone, we’re in this together.

Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder and MeRA25 MP, on the economic and political impact of the coronavirus.

Leaked by DiEM25 – full audio and transcripts available at www.euroleaks.diem25.org.

When everybody is in danger, nobody is safe: this is the first lesson the Coronavirus pandemic has taught us, or better, reminded us of: that health is more than anything else, a common good. DiEM25 is calling not only for serious reflection on the crisis of global capitalism, but also for resolute action in protecting or enabling public and universal healthcare as a crucial part of democracy and equality — and as an indispensable response to global pandemics. 

Brice Montagne interviews Nicolas Dessaux on the “New breath for Mons” movement and what it means for municipalism. The project, which offers the inhabitants of Mons-en-Barœul an alternative on the left, has created a coalition with local ecological collectives such as zero waste, as well as elected officials with an ecological sensitivity.

Our contemporary global anxiety lies not so much in the fear of a virus, but in the fear of a future without health-care and functioning states. The pasta shelves are empty, but this is a great chance to pause for a moment – even in quarantine if necessary – and reflect on the fact that it’s not coronavirus that is killing the planet. It’s global capitalism.

A great initiative to mobilise citizens for our powerful social and ecological programme for Europe. At DiEM25, we know that power has to be built from the bottom up. The task is all the more difficult if one wants, as we do, to build a pan-European transnational movement to democratise the European Union. But as 

Read more

Women that are a part of the DiEM25 movement support the Green New Deal for Europe for a variety of reasons. Read their statements on International Women’s Day to find out how they propose to re-envision the European project in the midst of the climate crisis.

The effects of environmental breakdown have a gendered dimension – a holistic transformation of the economy is needed to address it. The Green New Deal for Europe (GNDE) is calling for a transnational, intersectional and intergenerational approach to the climate crisis.

DiEM25’s #EuroLeaks will take YOU inside the secretive Eurogroup where far-reaching decisions in Europe are made.

Enforcing internationalism through fighting for common progress is the best defence against reactionary violence.

Ten years of European propaganda, portraying Greece as the continent’s prodigal son – a corrupt, inefficient, lazy relative that needs to be assisted, but also be purified through suffering for its sins – have created the perfect laboratory for the EU’s most inhumane policies.

MeRA25’s position is that the EU-Turkey agreement is not the solution to the problem but rather it is the problem itself since it violates international legitimacy and is morally unacceptable. At the same time, in line with its pacifist policies, it calls for the cease of warfare and all kinds of hostilities in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, which are the real causes of the refugee and migrants’ tragedy.  

Amidst police brutality during protests in Chios and Lesvos and the ‘preventative censorship’ of the public TV station, the Greek government is now calling for ‘dialogue’.

DiEM25 and MeRA25 will not allow the Greek government to legitimise the Golden Dawn – Greek Solution racist narrative.

We are here so that unarmed truth has the final word.

Our condolences are with the victims and their families. We stand by you.

On the fourth birthday of DiEM25, the Roman local DiEM25 groups and the Italian National Collective organised the event “Manifestiamo”, held in Rome on February 9, at the Villetta Garbatella Social Club. The event was an opportunity to present the Progressive Manifesto for Italy, a work in progress and a first step toward building DiEM25’s 

Read more

There is a reason why people like Mr. Regling are terrified of the eyes and ears of citizens: public scrutiny.

Meet the the latest group of influential personalities to join our Advisory Panel.

Don’t Extradite Assange Protest March, London, Saturday February 22

Watch this space: diem25.org and mera25.gr for the release of the unedited recordings around March 10, 2020.

DiEM25 and MeRA25 refuse to submit to the Establishment’s suffocation of the truth.

We need a democratic project that revitalises our democracy and works for the necessary changes in parliaments, on our streets and in our living rooms.

Police violence is on the rise in France. We, at DiEM25, invite all Europeans to stand up in solidarity with all citizens demonstrating for their rights.

Want to become a big name in politics? Identify a problem, blame it on the EU, and then ride the Nationalist horse with all the help the media can (and inevitably will) give you.

We must turn the EU into a place that nobody would ever want to leave.

By leaving us, you are making us sadder, poorer and more prone to the errors that made so many of you vote for Brexit.

The Greek radical Left has to demonstrate that both Greek subjects and refugees are victims of globalised capitalism.

DiEM25 stands against all far-right iterations in Greece and across the continent, and in solidarity with refugees and migrants.

The role of political organisations certainly isn’t to substitute for the workers or their trade unions. However, they may at any time help envisage economic and social struggles in a broader way, in time or space, to open perspectives. The present movement over pensions in France deserves some thinking. Europe In 2003 a movement over 

Read more

The Tech Pillar we present today proposes a Europe which puts citizens before companies, sustainability before narrow profit and responsibility before technological feasibility.

The environmental crisis is global and a Green New Deal is needed. We cannot ignore the historical responsibility of Europe.

While the general rate of redistribution of wealth in Sweden is relatively high, this country has had a real push on the question of pension reform using a point system, as Henri Sterdyniak, from French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE) indicates. Indeed, years after this type of reform occurred, the situation there is quite catastrophic: 

Read more

The European Union must denounce Trump’s imperialist policies.

Mainstream economics has always functioned as the mathematised ideology of financialised capitalism. The few economists who fought from within the economics discipline on behalf of the many have led lonely, difficult lives. In this lecture, James K. Galbraith, a founding member of DiEM25 and a member of our Advisory Panel, narrates his personal journey and, in the process, lays down a research strategy for younger progressive economists. He also reveals to non-economist progressives the kind of theoretical weaponry that the establishment has at it disposal. A must read!

Campaigning across Europe nearly broke me. But it also convinced me of the deep well of progressive energy waiting to be tapped.

When military interventionism deposes the president elect of a nation, we forcefully decry the coup.

When results are bad, the stakes are even higher. But so is the need for an even greater determination.

DiEM25 members voted to campaign for a Labour-led government in the UK. Now it’s time to act to defeat the Tories.

Greece falls back to a police state while Greeks show what Europe and the world needs: get over our fears and uncertainties and collectively work on our vision for a just society.

Last weekend 300 activists from across Europe gathered in Prague to discuss their proposals for the future of the movement in a unique participatory process.

The new PSOE-Podemos government has a chance to turn a page. But will they take it?

As philosopher Slavoj Žižek once said, it is a remarkable sign of our times that even the brightest minds would rather fathom the end of the world than plan for the demise of capitalism.

Don’t wait, do whatever you can. And do it now.

As committed and principled democrats, DiEM25 stands in solidarity with the people of Indian Administered Kashmir.

MeRA25 members are currently in police custody and held without charges.

By Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder and Luis Martín, DiEM25 Political Coordinator.

Our members have voted, and the selected proposals to be presented, discussed and amended in Prague are…

Speech by Srećko Horvat, DiEM25 co-founder, at the Don’t Extradite Assange event in London, November 6, 2019.

DiEMers from every corner of Europe have produced over 30 proposals on how to best organise our movement in the years ahead.

The moment that Chile lives today is a precious opportunity to change a system branded as the only alternative.

As harsh austerity and xenophobic nationalism fester in Europe, Yanis Varoufakis discusses his antidote with Tellus Senior Fellow Allen White.

Rent caps should only be the beginning.

MeRA25’s spokesperson condemned police brutality that the right-wing government is implementing to counter popular resistance.

SYRIZA’s fall from office is the result of its 5-year mutation from a leftist party into the implementing branch of TINA.

To protect the planet from ourselves, we have to confront capitalism.

Parliament must reject this deal and let the people decide for themselves the future of the country.

DiEM25 joins Extinction Rebellion in calling for civil disobedience – as a basic democratic right – against ecological destruction.

The European left has to firmly stand in solidarity with Jewish communities

DiEM25 Budapest congratulates the Hungarian opposition on its biggest election victory in a decade!

The Green New Deal might sort the identity problem of the progressive forces

Hito Steyerl, Boris Buden and Srećko Horvat in solidarity action with Rojava.

TRT World’s enthusiastic support of the recent invasion of Northern Syria makes it impossible for me to attend.

We call on everyone to join the international day of action to stop the Turkish occupation, organised by the Rojava Solidarity Committee Europe, taking place on October 12.

Serbia’s natural resources and homes are under the attack of private investors

An attempt to discredit the progressive Left

Yanis Varoufakis’ book and other volumes among the Guardian’s 100 best books of the 21st century highlight the crises we are facing.

Naomi Klein: I stand with MeRA25 as the only party forcefully opposing this reckless legislation.

Malaysian DiEMer Jacob Lim calls out for an International Green New Deal

The U.S. military is the single greatest institutional contributor to climate change. We must bring an overall reduction in military spending onto the political agenda.

The pursuit of a Europe of solidarity, shared prosperity and peace for all: that should be “our European way of life”.

The epicentre of our crises could be the place to reinstate the Left to its proper place.

Let’s make the historic UN “paper victories“ count today!

Any solution worth its salt should take into account that the climate crisis is born out of capitalism.

DiEM25’s National Collective in Germany (NC) calls on all DiEMers to join the Extinction Rebellion without Borders in October 2019, starting October 7 in the capitals of the world. Recent climate research shows that we have to revise almost everything about the speed and the severity of the climate catastrophe. The climate catastrophe is no 

Read more

25,000 in Bucharest: DiEM25 and the Romanian diaspora organised a protest against reasons for mass emigration

DSC Augusta 1 speaks out against Special Economic Zones in Syracuse, Sicily.

Our new CC: 8 women and 4 men. Congrats to all!

DiEM25 UK condemns the Prime Minister’s move as most anti democratic. The only solution: Peoples’ Assemblies.

The Mercosur-EU trade proposal not only perpetuates the classic model of impoverishment of Latin America, but also rewards the arsonists-in-chief.

Europe must act without delay!

Lazy analogy: Leading Brexiteers and many Remainers have sought to portray Yanis Varoufakis as one of their own.

While holiday season is in full swing, the Sicilian government passed its proposal for Special Economic Zones in Syracuse. DSC Augusta 1 raises its voice.

The Courage Foundation, supported by DiEM25, launched #WeAreMillions, a massive photo campaign for Julian Assange.

A defeated dragon is the symbol of Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana. But it seems it left a poisoned egg: EU’s Troika.

Salvini’s perfidious calculation: He provokes a government crisis in plain summer and could not be blamed for the chaos the adoption of Italy’s budget will unevitably bring about in September. Read more about DiEM25 Italy’s stance.

MeRA25’s first days in parliament – we vowed to give them a hard time!

Interview with MeRA25 MP and DiEM25 co-founder, Yanis Varoufakis, on BBC Radio 4 about Brexit and Boris Johnson.

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 

Read more

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 

Read more

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 

Read more

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 

Read more

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 

Read more

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 

Read more

 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. 

Read more

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 

Read more

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 

Read more

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

Follow us live from Paris!

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 

Read more

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 

Read more

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 

Read more

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.