Yesterday in Berlin, there was an event to start DiEM25, the "Democracy in Europe Movement ... 2025". Varoufakis is the head honcho seen in their video ad (with music by Brian Eno who is on board) jogging into the future:
Motto: "The European Union will be democratized. Or it will disintegrate!" I think there's truth to that and a movement to counter all that PEGIDA/UKIP neo-nationalism and fear mongering - based in part on valid criticism of the EU as it is - is indeed needed. In an op-ed in The Guardian a couple of days ago, Varoufakis writes:
Remains to be seen how serious and practical that is, and how much of a personality cult it might contain, but in principle I say good luck!
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Motto: "The European Union will be democratized. Or it will disintegrate!" I think there's truth to that and a movement to counter all that PEGIDA/UKIP neo-nationalism and fear mongering - based in part on valid criticism of the EU as it is - is indeed needed. In an op-ed in The Guardian a couple of days ago, Varoufakis writes:
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Originally Posted by Yanis Varoufakis
[...] One simple, radical idea is our motivating force: to democratise the EU in the knowledge that it will otherwise disintegrate at a terrible cost to all. Our immediate priority is full transparency in decision-making (live-streaming of European councils, Ecofin and Eurogroup meetings; full disclosure of trade negotiations; ECB minutes, etc) and the urgent redeployment of existing EU institutions in the pursuit of policies that genuinely address the crises of debt, banking, inadequate investment, rising poverty and migration.
Our medium-term goal is to convene a constitutional assembly where Europeans will deliberate on how to bring forward, by 2025, a fully fledged European democracy, featuring a sovereign parliament that respects national self-determination and shares power with national parliaments, regional assemblies and municipal councils. Is this utopian? Of course it is. But no more so than the notion that the current EU can survive its anti-democratic hubris, and the gross incompetence fuelled by its unaccountability. Or the idea that democracy can be revived in the bosom of a nation-state asphyxiating within transnational “single” markets and opaque free trade agreements. Yes, our movement seems utopian even to us. However, the only alternative is the terrible dystopia unfolding before our eyes as the EU disintegrates; David Cameron celebrates the potential exclusion of some eastern Europeans from social security benefits; ambition is renationalised; xenophobia surges; and newer and taller fences are built begetting insecurity in the name of … security. |
Remains to be seen how serious and practical that is, and how much of a personality cult it might contain, but in principle I say good luck!
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