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driven by finance-capitalistic interests and nationalistic member state governments . For sure , it will come to political and legal showdowns . What will the Secretary General answer to Belgian authorities , administrations , courts , or the media ? May be the following ? “ As Secretary General of this organisation I have no authority over DIEM ’ s political work . I am only the legal figurehead .” Nobody would believe such statements . DIEM were making fools of themselves . Be sure they will blame DIEM of deceit and abuse of Belgian law .
Why making this big fuss about a legal association ? The Principles explain why the Belgium state is needed :
“ Diem 25 needs to have a firm legal standing throughout the European Union . This is crucial not only to avoid legal complications but also to ensure that our fund raising , and disbursement , are fully transparent and beyond reproach – both politically and legally .” 26
It seems historically unique for a radical , base-democratic movement to be in need of a control over its financial resources by authorities of their political opponents . I am no expert on legal issues but there surely are other options guarantee an internal , reliable , and transparent fund handling and to disclose but a minimum to the opposing side . I say this as a German Lenin had once made fun of noting they would buy a platform ticket before assaulting the railway station .
What are the two DIEMs good for , then ? What do we need such a legally constituted association of Belgium Law for , which – to be true - is nothing else than a political party w i t h o u t a social movement ? At this point the “ Modest Proposal ” comes into play . Originally , at the launch of DIEM25 in February 2016 , it was a medium term matter after
“ very long and serious deliberation among all Europeans who want to join us in that deliberation . We are going to present detailed policy proposals for Europeanizing and therefore stabilizing the crisis of debts , of banking , of extremely low investment ”. 27
26 Organising principles , sect . 7 . 27 Yanis Varoufakis , speech at Volksbühne ( youtube , 02.2016 , 19:31 – 20:39 ).
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