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Well, a year on, our journey to ‘radical utopia’ is going quite well! We now have nearly 40,000 members in 56 countries, crossed swords with the Establishment with campaigns on migration and transparency, assembled a pack of progressive leaders like Noam Chomsky, Elif Şafak and Brian Eno to help guide our movement, and developed an economic agenda to save Europe in a pioneering grassroots democratic process that gives every single member a say. Here’s a detailed look at what we’ve done over the past year.

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February 2016

  • Launched our movement with an event at the historic Volksbühne theatre in Berlin, alongside a wide range of progressive thinkers and doers, to a crowd of 1,200
  • Published our manifesto for democratising Europe, in 19 languages
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March 2016

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April 2016

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May 2016

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June 2016

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July 2016

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August 2016

  • Welcomed the Mayor of Naples to DiEM25
  • Held an open debate in Aegina, Greece with our coordinating team (150 people attended)
  • Organised a meeting between DiEM25 activists and renowned sociologist Saskia Sassen in Amsterdam to debate how to redesign democratic institutionalisation
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September 2016

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October 2016

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November 2016

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December 2016

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January 2017

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February 2017

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