Democratizing Europe: Varoufakis launches new movement

Written on February 11th, 2016 in politics Comments Off

… to save EU from ‘disintegration’ [2 VIDEOS] – Published on RT, Feb 9, 2016.

  • Democracy or disintegration are the EU’s only options, Greece’s ex-finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, said before the official launch of a pan-European political movement he hopes will help tackle the nationalization of policies in the 28-member union.
  • The “spectacular failure of the EU” to implement sound economic and refugee policies has tilted its members towards nationalism, the bike-riding former PM of Greece said on Tuesday, speaking to reporters at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin.

The remarks came ahead of the official Tuesday night launch of DiEM25 – the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 … //

… He also warned against turning Greece and Italy into “concentration camps” for refugees. In answering a question on the refugee crisis posed by RT’s Peter Oliver, Varoufakis asserted that the EU needed to look “[Turkish President Recep] Erdogan in the eyes as Europeans with a coherent policy” from a position of “solidarity within Europe.”

In November, Erdogan reportedly threatened to “put refugees on buses” and flood Europe with migrants if EU leaders did not offer him enough cash to help curb the influx of asylum seekers. The information was revealed in a leaked report published by Greek financial news website euro2day.gr on Tuesday.

Diem25 will serve as a platform for mediating negotiations, according to Varoufakis … //

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Official Website in german: DiEM25.org;

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Russia just offered US ‘concrete plan’ to end Syrian crisis – Lavrov, on RT, Feb 10, 2016;

Le retour de la monnaie hélicoptère, dans La Tribune de Genève, par Marian Atepczynski, le 7 févr 2016: Ces temps de disette font ressurgir quelques vieilles idées en matière monétaire. Puisque les banques centrales et les gouvernements sont impuissants à faire redémarrer les moteurs de la le ciel, une certaine somme d’argent pour relancer la consommation … // … Si même les suppôts de la haute finance commencent à douter, les utopies monétaires les plus folles ont peut-être, allez savoir, de beaux jours devant elles;

South Africa: Numsa gives strike action notice over new tax laws, on Times Live.co.za, Feb 6, 2016;

ÉPARGNE-RETRAITE: Doit-on craindre les turbulences actuelles? dans Le Devoir, par Claude Lafleur, le 6 févr 2016;

Global Capitalism: February 2016 Monthly Update, 88.09 min, uploaded by Richard D Wolff, Feb 4, 2016 … websites: Judson Memorial Church.org, Washington Square, NY; Left Forum.org; Democracy at Work;

SALON Media Group /about: The Salon Media Group (Ticker Symbol: SLNM) operates the pioneering, award-winning news site Salon.com. With an audience of 17.6 million monthly unique visitors, Salon.com covers breaking news, politics, culture, technology and entertainment through investigative reporting, fearless commentary and criticism, and provocative personal essays. As one of the first solely-online major media outlets, Salon is consistently at the forefront of innovation in the media – from community engagement to advertisement – and has bureaus in San Francisco, New York City and Washington, D.C.;

Yanis Varoufakis’ TED Talk: Capitalism will eat democracty – unless we speak up, 19.51 min, on TED, filmed by TEDGlobal, Geneva, Dec 2015;

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