 In June 2015 something quite remarkable happened in Europe. The European Central Bank closed down Greece's commercial banks during a terse negotiation between Greece and its creditors. The European Central Bank at the time and its president Mario Draghi claimed that they were doing their job impartially, they were not participating in the political process of asphyxiating the Greek government and that they were acting legally within the rulebook of the European Central Bank. But is that the case? Clearly the president of the European Central Bank, Mr Draghi, was not sure about that. He was not sure about the legality of his actions. We know that because apparently he commissioned a legal opinion from an independent private law firm to find out if what he was doing was legal. Now, shouldn't we be able as European citizens to read that legal opinion? Fabio De Massi, a member of European Parliament representing the Lincoln European Party of the Left filed an application to have a copy of this legal opinion. Mr Draghi wrote back saying that he can't share the legal opinion that he commissioned because of reasons of confidentiality and needing to protect the private law firm that had delivered the report. Now since then, Fabio and I contacted a law professor, a professor of public, European and international law from the University of Bremen, an authority in his field, who gave us his own legal opinion that Mr Draghi has no leg to stand on in refusing access to the legal opinion that he paid for using European citizens' money. DM25, the Democracy in Europe movement, is today beginning a campaign for collecting signatures to add to a list and array of signatories demanding from the European Central Bank and Mr Draghi that he releases on the basis of a mass freedom of information action this legal opinion for all to see. Signatories of the DM25 petition are Benoit Hamon, the Socialist Party's presidential candidate in the forthcoming presidential election in France, Katja Kipping, the Co-President, Co-Chair of Die Linke in Germany, Gesine Schwan, twice the Espaders candidate for the presidency of the Federal Republic of Germany, Fabio De Massi and myself. Plus, a long list of distinguished academics from Germany, from France, from the United Kingdom, from the United States. We want your support. We want you to join the petition that DM25 is beginning, is commencing immediately in order to force transparency to become a matter of fact in Frankfurt. Remember, the European Central Bank has immense power. It is the power to close down your banks in Europe at the drop of a hat. If that power is used without transparency and arbitrarily, there is no democracy in Europe. Join us.