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DiEM25 is helping to take the shameful EU-Turkey refugee deal to Europe’s courts in a bid to save the life of one man, Shabbir Iqbal, and improve the lives of millions. #StopTheDeal [embedded content] What is this campaign? On March 20, 2016, the controversial EU-Turkey Agreement came into effect. It specifies that all ‘new irregular migrants’ – a euphemism for refugees and asylum-seekers – arriving in Greece from this date onwards will be returned to Turkey. The EU-Turkey deal is...

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Democracy starts at home! So, at DiEM25 we decide on the movement’s important policy positions by means of an internal vote/referendum that follows a free and frank internal exchange. Below you will find the four options that our members are currently voting for (there will be a runoff vote if none of them secure 50% of the votes plus 1). You will also find a briefing on the state-of-play with the Brexit process (or is it shambles?). Click here a pdf copy of post-Brexit analysis/briefing...

Yanis Varoufakis, Ralph Nader, Tim Barker, Donna Murch and Simon Schama, interviewed by Christopher Lydon. https://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/varoufakis-nader-et-al-on-trump-normalizethis-open-source-radio.mp3 Normalize This! Last week, the election of Donald J. Trump came as a thunderclap. This week, the echoes are still ringing in the ears of the American polity. Reports of the demise of the Republican party turned out to be greatly exaggerated. And now it’s the...

The chances of Trump pursuing an economic stimulus that will benefit the lives of those he promised to help are slim. Republican presidents have a penchant for ditching their ideological commitment toward small government, turning into big deficit spenders soon after assuming office. Ronald Reagan’s legacy owes a great deal to his spectacular U-turn from admonishing federal government largesse to enlisting it enthusiastically, and with considerable effect, against America’s early 1980s...

On the same day that I addressed an audience of more than 1000 DiEM25 members in Hamburg, I was also kindly invited by Joachim and Renate Pawlik to address the Pawlik Group‘s Annual Conference. In my Keynote Address to the business representatives attending, I spoke of the need for a radical unionist campaign to counter the ubiquitous rise of xenophobic nationalism. And I dared suggest that this most DiEM25-like campaign should be kickstarted with the Speech of Hope for Europe. “Who should...

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