DiEM0216.Press conference, Volksbuhne. Arno-image. All rights reserved.Last year did not end well, this year took a bad start: Europe will be facing its test of endurance in 2016, so they said at the beginning of the year. In this doomsday mood, a manifesto appears: 'The European Union will be democratised. Or it will disintegrate!' The deadline is in 10 years, hence the name DiEM25 - Democracy in Europe Movement 2025.
Ten years to change Europe: a powerful announcement! And a rather optimistic outlook in the face of last year's turbulence. The man who initiated the DiEM25-movement knows what he's talking about: Yanis Varoufakis, leftist economist, former finance minister of the Syriza government in Greece and 'Rock Star of the Economy' (Business Insider).
Many have followed every move in the showdown between him and the Eurogroup; the Referendum; the OXI... The 'Athenian Spring' has failed except in one regard — to clarify that T.I.N.A. still reigns: There is no Alternative! After all, the election result should not impede the economic policies that have been accepted by a previous government. That's what Varoufakis was told when he insisted on his political mandate.
