Greece's Varoufakis to Launch Pan-European Progressive Movement
Hoping to show Europeans they have an alternative to the prevailing system of "authoritarianism" and austerity, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has announced a new cross-continent movement with a "simple, common agenda:" To democratize Europe.
The movement, known as the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (or DiEM 25), will be launched on February 9 at Berlin's Volksbühne theater.
Varoufakis, who first revealed the plan late last month in an interview with L'Espresso, said that he is hopeful this "activist movement" will connect progressives across the continent and enable them to take back power from the ruling elite and what he described as the "shadowy world of bureaucrats, bankers, and unelected officialdom."
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/05/greeces-varoufakis-launch-pan-european-progressive-movement
This man is very, very smart, and I wish he could extend his movement to the Asia/Pacific region. I was so disappointed that Tsipras reneged on their agreement to restructure the Greek debt, because it seemed like the only thing that could work. What he did, as Varoufakis predicted, was just continue the previous situation, spiralling ever downward into more debt and hurting the poorest.
I wish him well with all my heart.
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