{"id":18238,"date":"2016-02-25T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18238"},"modified":"2016-02-25T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:14:43","slug":"18238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18238","title":{"rendered":"The Balkanization of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Balkanization of Europe<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Danae Stratou, Ilargi, Yanis Varoufakis and Steve Keen\u00a0<\/b>Feb 16 2016<\/center>When my mate Steve Keen took me to meet Yanis Varoufakis for dinner last week when we all happened to find ourselves in Athens together, I at least sort of regretted not having the time and space to talk to Yanis about his DiEM25 project for the democratization of Europe. It was a private occasion, there were other people at the dinner table, Steve and Yanis had no seen each other for a while, it was simply not about that.<\/p>\n

I did think afterward that it would be great to do this kind of get together more often, and get ideas running, but then realized we are all workaholics and we all live thousands of miles apart, so the odds of that happening are slim at best. And that in turn made me think of how inspiring the years were when I toured the world with my Automatic Earth partner in crime Nicole Foss, how important it is to have people around to bounce off your ideas of what\u2019s going on, how much faster that crystallizes your own ideas.<\/p>\n

But as things are, and as they happened, I didn\u2019t have that time with Yanis. And not nearly enough with Steve either, for that matter, who has\/is a brain that I would love to pick for days if not weeks, he\u2019s such a brilliant mind. When you have just a few hours, though, the time is filled with drinking wine and catching up with what\u2019s happened in each other\u2019s personal lives, it had been 3 years since we met, and professionally, since Steve knows Nicole very well, they did quite a few presentations together, yada yada.<\/p>\n

Immensely gratifying, of course, to be able to renew a friendship like that, but almost as frustrating to not be able to expand on it.<\/p>\n

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The Balkanization of Europe Danae Stratou, Ilargi, Yanis Varoufakis and Steve Keen\u00a0Feb 16 2016When my mate Steve Keen took me to meet Yanis Varoufakis for dinner last week when we all happened to find ourselves in Athens together, I at least sort of regretted not having the time and space to talk to Yanis about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2674,8671,63,5115,10926,279,281,10927,1167,553,6803,7738,3814,750,776,818,2921],"class_list":["post-18238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-automatic-earth","tag-balkanization","tag-banks","tag-bombing","tag-borders","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-frontex","tag-greece","tag-nato","tag-nicole-foss","tag-raul-meijer","tag-refugees","tag-steve-keen","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-yanis-varoufakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18240,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions\/18240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}