 What's not working with the EU? I think the question should be turned completely around. So what is working with the EU? And then we would find a few things. Of course, this is not a reason to disband on the EU. It's actually a reason to build a much better, completely radically different Europe today. What's not working? I mean, it's enough to look at the so-called refugee crisis, which Erdogan, for instance, is blackmailing Europe that he will leave three millions of refugees from Syria to Europe if they call his occupation of the Kurds an occupation. And you've seen the reaction of the European Union. Look at the state repression in Spain. Look at how the boss of the European Commission was elected. Was she a candidate at all? I mean, the emers and others remember that many different movements and parties were running for the European elections. And you will also remember some other candidates from other parties and so on. None of them is the boss of the European Commission. I mean, this already shows that there is not only a democratic deficit in the European Union. There is a lack of democracy in the European Union. And as a consequence, as a result to this lack of democracy, what we can see all around Europe is the birth of monsters, the birth of autocratic, repressive states, the birth of populist leaders, the lack of solidarity. The return to what Benedict Anderson called imagined communities, which means a return to this fixation that a nation is an idea which still has any meaning in the 21st century where the whole concept of serenity is completely changing. So what you will see today when you look at the map of the European Union is that the European Union is really, as DM25 three years ago said and predicted, that the European Union is disintegrating and the European Union is collapsing. And if this happens, if it really completely collapses, if it not only has disastrous effects on the populations of Europe and the European Union, it will have a disastrous effect also on global politics. So I think it is our responsibility as Democrats, as progressives to stop the collapse, to radically transform the European Union and to rethink the very idea of Europe. What does Europe mean? What about states which are not part of the European Union? You've seen what is happening now with North and Macedonia and with Albania. How can anyone trust in the European Union if they made a deal that North and Macedonia, how it is called now, will get a green light for accession, negotiations, if they change the name. So they change the name. What happens now? I mean in this situation you can see that Europe is falling on a worse, worse, worse, on a lower, lower, lower stage of disintegration and we have to stop it. Well, it's enough to come to Brussels to see why. Because those who are supposed to represent the people, they are based in a fortress driving in Mercedes-Benz BMWs, leaving a huge carbon footprint and so on. And they are not connected to the people. And even if they pretend that they are connected to the people, like to the people of North and Macedonia, they trick them in the end. Or you have seen what happened to Greece with the OK referendum. So how can the Greek people, for instance, be connected to the European Union if the European Union did everything it could in order to change the vote of a democratic referendum? There are so many other things which show why people are disconnected from the EU and as a consequence, again, what you have is that these people are getting more and more connected to populist leaders. Because what you have as a consequence of austerity and privatizations imposed by the so-called Troika or however it is called now, the so-called institutions, namely the European Commission and so on, what you have as a consequence is people without jobs, people with lower pensions, even people in Germany who have a minimum pension of something like 8 or 900 euros, they are now massively emigrating to Bulgaria, Romania and so on because these are the only places where they can make a living. So in this situation where people are already living, not on the edge of poverty, people are already poor, the majority of people, where there is huge inequality. As a consequence, you have anger. As a consequence of anger, you have resentment. As a consequence of resentment, you very often have impotence. As a consequence of impotence, you very often have hatred of others, you have fictional enemies and those who are using this anger, this liberal economy, these emotions are usually Victor Orban, Farage, Le Pen and name the others and unfortunately the so-called European institutions are not helping at all, they are actually making the situation much worse. So why should we wonder that the people of Europe are not connected to the elites of Europe, to the bureaucrats of Europe, to Europe which is imposing austerity, to Europe which is privatizing, to Europe which is putting the outer border now between Croatia and Bosnia so that the refugees cannot get in? Well, I'm not surprised. So DM25, together with many other partners, scientists, activists, movements for years now has been working on policy because we don't think it's just enough to say no, to just go on the streets and you know what usually happens after you go home off the streets, you know, a few years later you wake up and you are nostalgic towards the good old days when you were on the street or you become melancholic and you don't believe in politics anymore because you didn't change anything on the streets. This is not a reason not to go on the streets. I would invite everyone to come on the streets, whether you are in Chile, in Lebanon, in Czech Republic, in Croatia or wherever but what is important if you go to the streets is to have a certain idea how would you change, not how would you change this system but what would come instead of it? And we have been working on different policy proposals. The Green New Deal is just one of them. The others are connected to technological sovereignty of Europe. You've seen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently questioning Mark Zuckerberg. I think it should be the European Union as well who should question him. I mean when they questioned him at the European Parliament, that was a farce that wasn't really compared to what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was doing and we should really tackle the question what about Uber, what about Airbnb in Europe and so on and how come that Silicon Valley companies are actually monopolizing public services. That's only one of the policy proposals we have. That's when it comes to technology. One of the first campaigns DM started was about transparency. How is it possible that the Eurogroup or the European Commission and so on are making decisions which are radically changing the lives of millions in Europe without the public or the population to even know about it? I mean if you don't know about it, how can you change the situation? I mean this is the basic lesson which WikiLeaks and Assange gave us that in order to change the situation, to criticize the situation you need to have the information. Unfortunately today we are losing the information and the European Union is not transparent at all. Of course there are many other pillars but one of the most important ones during the last period is certainly the Green New Deal. I know there are many Green New Deals all across Europe, all across the world and so on but why DM's Green New Deal is specific and also the campaign, the Green New Deal for Europe which was backed by labor by many other MPs and movements and so on I think because it tries to give a holistic view. It tries to propose a holistic policy which you know it's not just about what should Britain do tomorrow, what should France do and so on but how can we use the existing European institutions in order to get massive investment into public infrastructure into green technology, not into all the rest what you are seeing today like coal, cars, planes, industry which belongs to the 20th century so basically what we are proposing in the Green New Deal is very concrete measures how we could reach something what we could call post-capitalism. Of course it's difficult to explain it in a few sentences the programs are 100 pages long, I don't know when it reads programs anymore but take a look. Well if you look at the world today you will see that there are massive protests going on from Chile to Lebanon to well last month it was the Gilles Jones as well, Algiers, Hong Kong I mean almost the whole map of the world is now covered with protests and the connection is to a certain degree inequality and austerity. Why should anyone then come to Czech Republic if all these protests are happening all across the world? Because we are internationalists and that's why at the end of November we are all coming to Prague, hundreds of members of DM25 all across Europe activists but also people who are not part of DM, everyone is invited. Why? Because on the one hand we will have the first assembly of DM25 which is I think a very democratic event, a beautiful event which members but also activists and participants of DM25 can propose in which direction DM should go. You've seen that we participated at European elections we got 9 MPs elected into the Greek parliament we have the Green New Deal, we are building the progressive international and so on but there is of course a big question first of all how to assess all of this what we've accomplished and what else can we do and in which ways we can do it better. So that's the main purpose of our Prague meeting and the second one is of course where everyone is invited it's the public event where Yanis Varoufakis, many other let's say representatives of DM25 from all across Europe but also Czech Republic will be present so it's I think a brilliant opportunity to get together, to think, to act and to have some fun and there is something in Czech I could read but I cannot remember it so Zveme Shechni de Prahy, something like that I hope I didn't say something nasty so I hope to see you in Prague