YANIS VAROUFAKIS

Friday 24th February

Tickets £10

Doors 7.30pm

Start 8.00pm

at Crescent Arts Centre



The Crescent Arts Centre and DiEM25 Belfast are pleased to announce that the economist and political activist Yanis Varoufakis is coming to the Crescent to discuss Democracy on the Edge of Europe.



Varoufakis will be in conversation with the journalist and broadcaster, William Crawley and he will be addressing the concerns of progressive democrats as they face a future robbed of its old political certainties. The event will include an audience Q&A and also the opportunity to purchase signed books.



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Varoufakis came to wide public attention as the Greek Minister of Finance in 2015 and played a prominent role in Syriza’s negotiations with the European Union and Greece’s creditors. He is a leading figure in the new, political movement DiEM25 with “One very simple, but radical, idea: to democratise Europe.”



As Northern Ireland struggles with a future outside of the EU – a future that its people did not choose – it is time for democrats of all stripes to play a role in shaping the political structures that govern us. Like nowhere else in Europe, Northern Ireland has experienced the acute ramifications of a contested border and continues to suffer at the hands of those who promote xenophobia and division over equality and cohesion. To add to this, the Northern Ireland Assembly has recently had to call elections due to a damaging political scandal, which exemplifies both the problems with and the opposition to western liberal democracies in the twenty-first century.