To: <editor@tribunemag.co.uk> Attention Grace Blakeley . (editor, please forward) Dear Grace Blakeley, Thank you for your contribution in this video: https://www.youtube.com/live/C4zreB1805o I am writing to you from Aegina in Greece, the island on which Yanis Varoufakis has his second home. DiEM25 got off to a very early start here, but the performance was not sustained. Yanis Varoufakis spoke to the group on a couple of occasions. Here is the first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyNfj52AVKw&t=48s\ I convened this meeting but I was not head of the DiEM25 group in Aegina. That was Erik Rooze, who was present in the audience. Now all these years later, yesterday (22nd February 2026) Erik and I met and discussed the present situation, including the Iran war but not only that. Erik and Yanis are still in communication. I made it clear to Erik yesterday (though he did not really need to be told) that I want absolutely nothing to do with Yanis or with DieM25 but I nevertheless believe that Yanis could make an important contribution to Greek, European and global politics. After the summer 2016 beach meeting in Aegina where Yanis spoke, infighting broke out in the local DiEM25 group. I could not be bothered trying to … Continue reading →

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