Following the Berlin Launch of DiEM25, eleven representatives of the GREENS (including two Members of the European Parliament) sent DiEM25 an Open Letter welcoming its 'birth' and urging us to unite in the fight for a Democratic, Sustainable, Humanist, Open Europe. Here is Yanis Varoufakis' reply to their Open Letter (which you can download here or here in pdf):Dear Young European Greens,
Dear Florent, Julien, Karima, Michel, Rui , Vedran, Adam, Laura, Teo, Zakia, Patrick,
You are right: Dreaming of a united, democratised Europe is our only weapon against a divided, authoritarian, potentially Dark Continent.
Our common dream is the only antidote to the common nightmare already in the works. But to become an effective antidote we need to join forces.
We need to overcome the usual tendency of progressives to fall prey to the sirens of discord.We need a broad coalition of European democrats from across the Left, Green, Liberal and Progressive Conservative divides.
As Brian Eno put it in DiEM's Berlin Launch, democrats are people who know that they do not possess the answers but who, at the same time, remain convinced that, together, it is possible to come up with good answers, helpful actions, and sensible policies.
Comment: Heartless.