Democratise the Euro!

Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic of the emerging regime of techno-feudalism, and the folly of El Salvador’s Bitcoin-heavy negotiating tactics with the IMF. Luckily, we have found this person in […]

DiEM25 was created in February 2016 because Europe was disintegrating as a result of a pseudo-technocratic takeover of the EU that was imposing austerity everywhere in response to the financial crisis caused by the EU pseudo-technocracy’s controllers. Today, now that a mindless virus has placed European capitalism in suspended animation, it is time to re-assess our analysis and to re-purpose our policies.

On Monday 25th March, the EUROPEAN SPRING was launched at the Bozar Theatre in front of friends, supporters and hopeful citizens of Europe. For the first time in Europe’s history, a common list of candidates is presented across Europe promoting a single agenda – the NEW DEAL for EUROPE that we worked on together for more than two years. Europe has not had much to celebrate recently. Now we do!

 
Join the campaign to demand that the ECB publish the legal opinion it commissioned on whether its closure of Greece’s banks in 2015 was… legal. CLICK HERE!

As part of an impressive campaign to discredit the Athens Spring, and those of us who continue to honour and propagate its spirit, a cabal of journalists and ‘analysts’ have joined forces to depict me as the “destroyer of the … Continue reading →

For the El Mundo site (in Spanish), click here. To read my original English language responses… Why did you resign the very next day after the ‘no’ victory in the Greek referendum? Because the Prime Minister told me, on the … Continue reading →

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Gerardo Pisarello, Barcelona’s First Deputy Mayor, posing crucial questions on the state of capitalism, whether democracy has room to breathe nowadays, the need for a pan-European movement, the place of City Halls and municipalism in such a movement…  Filed under: Democratise … Continue reading →

The news is out: DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe – Movement) will be launched in Berlin on 9th February, at the Volksbuehne Theatre in Berlin (pictured above). Before the official announcement and the manifesto saw the light of day, DiEM25 has … Continue reading →

Moderation: Christian Ude Vortrag und Diskussion in englischer Sprache Unter dem Titel underconstruction: europe möchte das Muffatwerk in 2016 Persönlichkeiten einladen, die sich kritisch und wach mit dem Jetzt-Zustand Europas auseinandersetzen und einen ganz eigenen Blick auf die Gegenwart und … Continue reading →