The European Union: A Cartel of Big Business

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The first name for the European Union was the European community for coal steel, like OPEC. When you create a kind of state apparatus in the image of a cartel, this is, by definition, the opposite of democracy. What we must now do is transform it and democratize it,. DiEM25 began in 2016 with a slogan, the EU will be democratized or it will disintegrate. It's going to have huge political, economic, social, aesthetic culture costs upon all of us," he says.

The liberal order is under threat. Increasing inequality, the rise of far-right nationalism and the climate emergency pose unprecedented challenges. It’s time for some radical thinking. In November 2019 Intelligence Squared brought to its stage two of the world’s great radicals – Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister known for his trademark leather jacket, motorbike and self-described erratic Marxism, and legendary music producer Brian Eno, known for his progressive politics and human rights activism. The evening was chaired by BBC journalist and broadcaster Ritula Shah.

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