Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | DiEM25 |
| Secretary-General | Yanis Varoufakis |
| Founders | Yanis Varoufakis Srećko Horvat |
| Founded | 9 February 2016 |
| Membership (2024) | 173,000 |
| Ideology | Pan-Europeanism Post-capitalism Progressivism Democratic socialism Environmentalism Ecofeminism Alter-globalisation |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| International affiliation | Progressive International |
| Colours | Orange-red |
| European Parliament | 0 / 720 |
| European Commission | 0 / 27 |
| European Council | 0 / 27 |
| European Lower Houses | 0 / 6,229 |
| European Upper Houses | 0 / 1,458 |
| Website | |
| diem25.org | |
The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, or DiEM25, is a left-wing European political alliance. It operates as a pan-European umbrella for subsidiary parties sharing the same name and branding (e.g. MeRA25, MERA25), and runs electoral lists with other affiliated parties. Despite its organisation and sometimes being referred to as a "European party" or "transnational party", DiEM25 does not meet the requirements to register as a European political party.
DiEM25 was founded by a group of Europeans, including Yanis Varoufakis and Srećko Horvat. The movement was officially launched at ceremonial events in 2016 in the Volksbühne theatre in Berlin and on 23 March in Rome.
DiEM25's tendencies are alter-globalisation, social ecology, ecofeminism, post-growth and post-capitalism. Implementation of a universal basic income is widely defended among its members.
The acronym DiEM alludes to the Latin phrase carpe diem. To highlight the urgency of democratising Europe, the movement had set the horizon for the year 2025 to draft a democratic constitution to replace all European treaties. Yet, it failed to elect representatives in the European Parliament up to the 2024 European elections.