"Disorder under the heaven" - Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek, a DiEM25 early signatory, casts his critical eye on the ‘disorder’ of the EU in the light of Brexit. He reminds us that “crises are painful and dangerous” but they are also “the terrain on which battles have to be waged and won”. He writes that the Brexit outcome offers us “a unique chance to react to the need for a radical change in a more appropriate way, with a project that will break the vicious cycle of EU technocracy and nationalist populism.” In a manner reflecting fully the DiEM25 manifesto, he concludes that” “The true division of our heaven is not between anaemic technocracy and nationalist passions, but between their vicious cycle and a new pan-European project which will addresses the true challenges that humanity confronts today.”