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Austerity doesn’t work, in <4 mins – from the Cambridge Union

Click here for an 8 minute version, recorded at a later Cambridge Union eventFiled under: DiEM, Politics and Economics

Help DiEM25 save Shabbir. Help Europe save its soul. Stop the EU-Turkey Deal!

DiEM25 is helping to take the shameful EU-Turkey refugee deal to Europe’s courts in a bid to save the life of one man, Shabbir Iqbal, and improve the lives of millions. #StopTheDeal What is this campaign? On March 20, 2016, the controversial … Continue reading →

Trump, the Dragon, and the Minotaur – Project Syndicate op-ed

  ATHENS – If Donald Trump understands anything, it is the value of bankruptcy and financial recycling. He knows all about success via strategic defaults, followed by massive debt write-offs and the creation of assets from liabilities. But does he … Continue reading →

Austerity in 8 minutes: Why it does not work. Why it is still practised

This speech was part of a Cambridge Union debate on ‘This House Has Lost Confidence in Austerity’. See below for the video of the whole debate. Filed under: And the Weak Suffer What They Must? - the book, Politics and … Continue reading →

On PM May’s new industrial policy, Brexit, the EU and Trump – Sky TV

Click on the imageFiled under: Brexit, DiEM, European Crisis, US Politics

DiEM25’s internal Brexit Process Referendum is on – analysis & open call

Democracy starts at home! So, at DiEM25 we decide on the movement’s important policy positions by means of an internal vote/referendum that follows a free and frank internal exchange. Below you will find the four options that our members are … Continue reading →

How to mobilise under & against President Trump – on WBUR Open Source Radio

Yanis Varoufakis, Ralph Nader, Tim Barker, Donna Murch and Simon Schama, interviewed by Christopher Lydon. Normalize This! Last week, the election of Donald J. Trump came as a thunderclap. This week, the echoes are still ringing in the ears of … Continue reading →

BRUSSEL’s APPEAL FOR LESS AUSTERITY: An irrelevant proposal by an irrelevant Commission

So, the European Commission, at last, concluded that the eurozone’s fiscal stance is too austerian. “Better late than never”, some will say. Alas, this is too optimistic a take. The reason? The Commission is irrelevant and it knows it. Decisions of … Continue reading →

TRUMP: THE NEXT KEYNESIAN PRESIDENT? DON’T BANK ON IT – Newsweek, 16 NOV 2016

The chances of Trump pursuing an economic stimulus that will benefit the lives of those he promised to help are slim. Republican presidents have a penchant for ditching their ideological commitment toward small government, turning into big deficit spenders soon … Continue reading →

Angela Merkel’s last chance to deliver a Speech of Hope for Europe – Hamburg Keynote (audio), 15 NOV 2016

On the same day that I addressed an audience of more than 1000 DiEM25 members in Hamburg, I was also kindly invited by Joachim and Renate Pawlik to address the Pawlik Group‘s Annual Conference. In my Keynote Address to the … Continue reading →