Tag Archives: DiEM25

As harsh austerity and xenophobic nationalism fester in Europe, Yanis Varoufakis discusses his antidote with Tellus Senior Fellow Allen White. What inspired your career trajectory from academic economist to prominent supranational activist? I went into politics because of the financial crisis of 2008. Had financial capitalism not imploded, I would have happily continued my quite obscure academic work at some...

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The Green Party MP and the MeRA25 leader journey from democracy’s inception through the tumultuous Brexit period and through to the year 2035 There’s chaos on the streets of Westminster as the activists of Extinction Rebellion bring traffic to a standstill to highlight the urgency of action on the climate crisis. If the old democracy is not working, perhaps new ways of making ourselves heard are required. As the...

Last April, again in The Guardian, David Adler and I called for a particular Green New Deal to be implemented internationally. Now that a new recession is ante portas, we are renewing this call, suggesting that we cannot afford yet another ‘good’ economic crisis to go to waste. Our latest piece in The Guardian follows: Brexit, Trump’s trade wars, the crisis of our democracies, the failure to address climate...

It is with profound regret, and after much reflection, that I am pulling out as a speaker at an interesting and worthy international conference organised by TRT World in Istanbul on 21st October. I do so in protest of the Turkish armed forces’ invasion of Northern Syria. The ongoing invasion is not only an assault on Syria’s Kurdish forces that almost single-handedly, and heroically, defeated ISIS on the ground...

This morning, in Greece’s Parliament, MeRA25’s parliamentarians are staging an all-out struggle against the ratification of disastrous contracts between the previous (SYRIZA) government and multinational oil companies. The contracts to be ratified give the companies (including Exxon-Mobil and Total) full licence to drill, extract and exploit gas & oil reserves across Greece’s beautiful seas (Ionian, Aegean,...

Καθώς το ΜέΡΑ25 ανοίγει τις πόρτες του σε όλο και πιο πολλούς νέους συνοδοιπόρους, έχει σημασία να εμπεδώνουμε ξανά και ξανά το δημοκρατικό πνεύμα και τις συμμετοχικές πρακτικές του DiEM25, του οποίου αναπόσπαστο μέρος είναι το ΜέΡΑ25. Για παράδειγμα, είναι εύλογο ότι κάποια από τα νέα μέλη αναρωτιούνται πως είναι δυνατόν για τις θέσεις του ΜέΡΑ25 σε καθαρά εθνικά θέματα, π.χ. το ασφαλιστικό ή το Μακεδονικό, να...

Η κορυφαία καθολική ψηφοφορία των μελών DiEM25-ΜέΡΑ25 για την εκλογή της νέας Συντονιστικής Επιτροπής είναι σε εξέλιξη. Μην ξεχάσεις να ψηφίσεις έως την 28η Αυγούστου Όταν λέμε ότι το κίνημά μας είναι το πρώτο ενιαίο πανευρωπαϊκό δημοκρατικό κίνημα, το εννοούμε. Ζούμε και βιώνουμε την δημοκρατία στην πράξη. Κάθε εβδομάδα τα μέλη απ΄ όλη την Ευρώπη καλούμαστε να συναποφασίσουμε μέσα από καθολικές ψηφοφορίες για...

The liberal order is under threat. Increasing inequality, the rise of far-right nationalism and the climate emergency pose unprecedented challenges. It’s time for some radical thinking. On November 4th Intelligence Squared is bringing to its stage two of the world’s great radicals – Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister known for his trademark leather jacket, motorbike and self-described erratic...

[embedded content] MeRA25’s entry into Greece’s Parliament marks the return of anti-austerity, anti-troika, radical europeanism. In this first speech I outlined our campaign to oppose the new parasitic oligarchy that New Democracy will be building on the 4th Bailout deal with the troika that SYRIZA left behind