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Socialising androids – Two Project Syndicate op-eds & one Guardian commentary
, 14/03/2017
Click here for my Project Syndicate op-ed in which I reply to Bill Gates’ proposal for a tax on robots, counter-proposing the idea first canvassed here of a universal basic dividend from a public share trust fund. See also this commentary in The Guardian.
, 14/03/2017
By AnnMarie Welser and Brian Maguire | EURACTIV.com Greece’s economy suffered a new blow, contracting by 1.2% at the end of 2016, according to revised figures released earlier this week. The figures, published by the Greek statistics agency, Elstat, show it was the worst quarter since the summer of 2015, when the European Central Bank […]
Varoufakis and De Masi push for ECB transparency – euobserver
, 08/03/2017
By ALEKSANDRA ERIKSSON BRUSSELS, 8th March 2017
The Guardian on the paperback edition of ‘And the Weak Suffer What They Must?’
, 07/03/2017
Click here for The Guardian site. Or…
Varoufakis and De Masi Press Conference at European Parliament – Wednesday 8th March 10.00
, 06/03/2017
Varoufakis and De Masi demand publication of ECB legal opinion for the closure of Greece’s banks Greece’s former finance minister, with German MEP, to hold press conference Wednesday, March 8, to announce filing a vital Freedom of Information request to the ECB. (Click Brussels Press Conference DiEM25 Press Release for pdf version) WHEN: Wednesday, March […]
Yanis Varoufakis on power, populism and the future of the EU
, 28/02/2017
This interview preceded the launch of the Dutch chapter of DiEM25 in Paradiso, Amsterdam.
Yanis Varoufakis talks about Brexit, feminism and why he feels at home in Belfast – Viewdigital
, 28/02/2017
By Brian Pelan on February 28, 2017 Latest news, VIEWdigital news
Interviews in relation to the launch of DiEM25 Netherlands
, 27/02/2017
Click here for the 9fornews interview and here for the Brandpunt interview
DiEM25 Netherlands Launch – 26 February 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldvo9KHl76k , 26/02/2017
EU, Brexit, Greece, the Left’s relationship with the State & Ireland: Long interview with Ben Lowry
, 25/02/2017
For the first part of the interview on News Letter’s site click here. For the second part here. Or…
DiEM25 Belfast Launch – 24th February 2017
, 25/02/2017
DiEM25 was launched in Belfast officially on 24th February 2017. The event was preceded by a phone in on BBC Radio Ulster available here.
Bringing down divisions – DiEM25 Belfast event tonight 24 FEB 2017
, 24/02/2017
Tonight’s event will be streamed live from 21.00 Central European Time. Click below:
Brexit – an unorthodox perspective | Guardian Live event
, 20/02/2017
27th January 2017 Srećko Horvat, a Croat philosopher, Elif Shafak, renowned Turkish novelist, and Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, bring to this conversation an intriguing perspective. As intellectuals who know Britain well, they understand first hand the perils of nationalism, disintegration, isolationism and marginalisation. They place post-Brexit Britain in a context informed by a […]
Greece’s fiscal waterboarding continues – on Al Jazeera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOKLH1eknM , 20/02/2017
Mr Draghi, what are you afraid of? Release #TheGreekFiles!
, 19/02/2017
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!
Yanis Varoufakis on BBC: “Western Democracies need a New Deal”
, 14/02/2017
Here Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister, argues that it’s time for a “New Deal” – including a universal basic income.
Greece’s Perpetual Crisis
, 14/02/2017
ATHENS – Since the summer of 2015, Greece has (mostly) dropped out of the news, but not because its economic condition has stabilized. A prison is not newsworthy as long as the inmates suffer quietly. It is only when they stage a rebellion, and the authorities crack down, that the satellite trucks appear. The […]
A New Deal to Save Europe
, 14/02/2017
LONDON – “I don’t care about what it will cost. We took our country back!” This is the proud message heard throughout England since the Brexit referendum last June. And it is a demand that is resonating across the continent. Until recently, any proposal to “save” Europe was regarded sympathetically, albeit with skepticism about its […]
Open Letter to the editor of The Times: Your Athens correspondent has done it again!
, 13/02/2017
Dear Sir, A day after one of your able journalists interviewed me in London, with a view of composing a piece for your newspaper (which I suppose is forthcoming), my attention was drawn to a separate piece that I am sure slipped inadvertently into your newspaper through your various filters. Its defamatory and wholly made-up title tells […]
DiEM25 unveils its ‘European New Deal: An economic agenda for European Recovery’
, 10/02/2017
To mark its first anniversary DiEM25 has today published a summary of its White Paper entitled ‘European New Deal: An economic agenda for European Recovery’. The full White Paper will be launched on the 25th March 2017 in Rome, in the context of the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Click here for a pdf.
DiEM25-UK: Organisational launch meeting at Conway Hall, London
, 07/02/2017
by Andrew J. Brown On Saturday morning, January 28, 2017, at Conway Hall in Central London, long an important place for radical religious, philosophical, social and political thinking in the UK, DiEM25 held its UK organisational launch.