MeRA25, the Glossary
The European Realistic Disobedience Front (Μέτωπο Ευρωπαϊκής Ρεαλιστικής Ανυπακοής), or MeRA25 (ΜέΡΑ25), is a left-wing Greek political party founded in 2018.[1]
Table of Contents
47 relations: Anti-austerity movement, Anti-austerity movement in Greece, Athens, Civil disobedience, Civil resistance, Creative entrepreneurship, Debt restructuring, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, Democratic socialism, Digital currency, Emancipation, Europe Elects, European Parliament, European values, Government budget balance, Government debt, Great Depression, Greece (European Parliament constituency), Green New Deal, Green politics, Hellenic Parliament, Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund, Jacobin (magazine), June 2023 Greek legislative election, Left-wing politics, Liberalism, List of political parties in Greece, Market socialism, May 2023 Greek legislative election, MERA25, Ministry of National Economy and Finance (Greece), Percentage point, Popular Unity (Greece), Postmodernism, Pro-Europeanism, Progressive International, Sofia Sakorafa, Syndicalism, Syriza, Tax rate, The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL, Vermilion, Yanis Varoufakis, 2019 European Parliament election, 2019 European Parliament election in Greece, 2019 Greek legislative election, 2024 European Parliament election in Greece.
- 2018 establishments in Greece
- Multicultural parties in Greece
- Organizations based in Athens
- Political parties in Greece
- Pro-European political parties in Greece
- Progressive International
- Socialist parties in Greece
- Syndicalist political parties
Anti-austerity movement
The anti-austerity movement refers to the mobilisation of street protests and grassroots campaigns that has happened across various countries, especially in Europe, since the onset of the worldwide Great Recession.
See MeRA25 and Anti-austerity movement
Anti-austerity movement in Greece
The anti-austerity movement in Greece involved a series of demonstrations and general strikes that took place across the country.
See MeRA25 and Anti-austerity movement in Greece
Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority).
See MeRA25 and Civil disobedience
Civil resistance
Civil resistance is a form of political action that relies on the use of nonviolent resistance by ordinary people to challenge a particular power, force, policy or regime.
See MeRA25 and Civil resistance
Creative entrepreneurship
Creative entrepreneurship is the practice of setting up a business – or becoming self-employed - in one of the creative industries.
See MeRA25 and Creative entrepreneurship
Debt restructuring
Debt restructuring is a process that allows a private or public company or a sovereign entity facing cash flow problems and financial distress to reduce and renegotiate its delinquent debts to improve or restore liquidity so that it can continue its operations.
See MeRA25 and Debt restructuring
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, or DiEM25, is a pan-European political movement and political party founded in 2016 by a group of Europeans, including Yanis Varoufakis and Srećko Horvat. MeRA25 and Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 are progressive International.
See MeRA25 and Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
Democratic socialism is a centre-left to left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic centrally planned socialist economy.
See MeRA25 and Democratic socialism
Digital currency
Digital currency (digital money, electronic money or electronic currency) is any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on digital computer systems, especially over the internet.
See MeRA25 and Digital currency
Emancipation
Emancipation has many meanings; in political terms, it often means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability that violates basic human rights, such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Europe Elects
Europe Elects is a poll aggregator that collects and publishes election-related data such as opinion polls in European countries.
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.
See MeRA25 and European Parliament
European values
European values are the norms and values that Europeans are said to have in common, and which transcend national or state identity.
See MeRA25 and European values
Government budget balance
The government budget balance, also referred to as the general government balance, public budget balance, or public fiscal balance, is the difference between government revenues and spending.
See MeRA25 and Government budget balance
Government debt
A country's gross government debt (also called public debt or sovereign debt) is the financial liabilities of the government sector.
See MeRA25 and Government debt
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
See MeRA25 and Great Depression
Greece (European Parliament constituency)
Greece is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Greece.
See MeRA25 and Greece (European Parliament constituency)
Green New Deal
Green New Deal (GND) proposals call for public policy to address climate change along with achieving other social aims like job creation, economic growth and reducing economic inequality.
Green politics
Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.
Hellenic Parliament
The Parliament of the Hellenes (Voulí ton Ellínon), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (Ellinikó Koinovoúlio), is the unicameral legislature of Greece, located in the Old Royal Palace, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens.
See MeRA25 and Hellenic Parliament
Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund
The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund S.A. (HRADF; Ταμείο Αξιοποίησης Ιδιωτικής Περιουσίας τουΔημοσίου, Tameio Axiopoiisis Idiotikis Periousias tou Dimosiou) or TAIPED (ΤΑΙΠΕΔ) is a direct subsidiary of the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations.
See MeRA25 and Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund
Jacobin (magazine)
Jacobin is an American socialist magazine based in New York.
See MeRA25 and Jacobin (magazine)
June 2023 Greek legislative election
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 25 June 2023.
See MeRA25 and June 2023 Greek legislative election
Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
See MeRA25 and Left-wing politics
Liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.
List of political parties in Greece
From the restoration of democracy in 1974 to the 2012 elections, the characteristic Greek political system was predominantly a two-party system. MeRA25 and List of political parties in Greece are political parties in Greece.
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Market socialism is a type of economic system involving social ownership of the means of production within the framework of a market economy.
See MeRA25 and Market socialism
May 2023 Greek legislative election
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 21 May 2023.
See MeRA25 and May 2023 Greek legislative election
MERA25
MERA25 (an abbreviation from the, Europäische realistische Ungehorsamfront), is a German political party. MeRA25 and MERA25 are progressive parties.
Ministry of National Economy and Finance (Greece)
The Ministry of National Economy and Finance (Υπουργείο Εθνικής Οικονομίας και Οικονομικών) is the government department responsible for Greece's public finances.
See MeRA25 and Ministry of National Economy and Finance (Greece)
Percentage point
A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference between two percentages.
See MeRA25 and Percentage point
Popular Unity (Greece)
Popular Unity - Insubordinate Left (Λαϊκή Ενότητα - Ανυπότακτη Αριστερά (ΛΑΕ - AA), Laïkí Enótita - Anipótakti Aristera, LAE - ΑΑ) is a left-wing political party in Greece. MeRA25 and Popular Unity (Greece) are socialist parties in Greece.
See MeRA25 and Popular Unity (Greece)
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.
Pro-Europeanism
Pro-Europeanism, sometimes called European Unionism, is a political position that favours European integration and membership of the European Union (EU).
See MeRA25 and Pro-Europeanism
Progressive International
Progressive International (PI) is an international political organization that unites and mobilizes progressive left-wing activists and groups.
See MeRA25 and Progressive International
Sofia Sakorafa
Sofia Sakorafa (Σοφία Σακοράφα, born 29 April 1957 in Trikala, Greece) is a Greek-Palestinian politician and former javelin thrower.
Syndicalism
Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the labour movement that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes, with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of production and the economy at large through social ownership.
Syriza
The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance (Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás – Proodeftikí Simachía), best known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA (ΣΥΡΙΖΑ; a pun on the Greek adverb σύρριζα, meaning "from the roots" or "radically"), is a centre-left to left-wing political party in Greece. MeRA25 and Syriza are democratic socialist parties in Europe, Multicultural parties in Greece, pro-European political parties in Greece, progressive parties and socialist parties in Greece.
Tax rate
In a tax system, the tax rate is the ratio (usually expressed as a percentage) at which a business or person is taxed.
The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL is a left-wing political group of the European Parliament established in 1995.
See MeRA25 and The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Vermilion
Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide).
Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis (Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis,; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician.
See MeRA25 and Yanis Varoufakis
2019 European Parliament election
The 2019 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 23 and 26 May 2019.
See MeRA25 and 2019 European Parliament election
2019 European Parliament election in Greece
European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 26 May 2019 to elect the 21 Greek members of the European Parliament.
See MeRA25 and 2019 European Parliament election in Greece
2019 Greek legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Greece on 7 July 2019.
See MeRA25 and 2019 Greek legislative election
2024 European Parliament election in Greece
The 2024 European Parliament election in Greece was held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election.
See MeRA25 and 2024 European Parliament election in Greece
See also
2018 establishments in Greece
- Athens B1
- Athens B2
- Athens B3
- East Attica (constituency)
- Giannitsa F.C.
- Hellenic Space Agency
- MeRA25
- Meteora (municipality)
- Navy Aviation Command
- PASOK – Movement for Change
- Panathinaikos People with Disabilities
- Santorini Film Festival
- University of West Attica
- Veria NFC
- West Attica (constituency)
- Zefyri railway station
Multicultural parties in Greece
Organizations based in Athens
- ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece
- Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center
- Foundation of the Hellenic World
- Hellenic Federation of Mountaineering and Climbing
- Hellenic Karate Federation
- Hellenic Paralympic Committee
- Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing
- Institute for Language and Speech Processing
- Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy
- Kasapi Union
- Lyceum Club of Greek Women
- MeRA25
- Melissa Network
- Movement of Democratic Socialists
- National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos"
- National Documentation Centre (Greece)
- National Hellenic Research Foundation
- Panhellenic Association of Ergotherapists
- Radio Amateur Association of Greece
- State of Concept
- Trade Union International of Workers in Tourism and Hotels
- World Federation of Trade Unions
- World Peace Council
Political parties in Greece
- Agricultural Livestock Party of Greece
- BLOCO
- Course of Freedom
- Democrats (Greece, 2024)
- Dynamic Greece
- Early Greek parties
- I Don't Pay Movement
- Left Recomposition
- List of political parties in Greece
- MeRA25
- National Reconstruction Front (Greece)
- National Unity (Greece)
- New Left (Greece)
- New Left Current
- Panhellenic Macedonian Front
- Patriotic Humanitarian Movement
- Pirate Party of Greece
- Teleia (political party)
- Voice of Reason (political party)
Pro-European political parties in Greece
- Agreement for the New Greece
- Creation (political party)
- Democratic Alignment (2015)
- Democratic Left (Greece)
- Democratic Responsibility
- Greek European Citizens
- MeRA25
- Movement of Democratic Socialists
- Movement of Free Citizens (Greece)
- National Creation
- New Democracy (Greece)
- Olive Tree (Greece)
- PASOK
- PASOK – Movement for Change
- Prasino+Mov
- Radical Movement of Social Democratic Alliance
- Syriza
- The River (Greece)
- Union of Centrists
- Volt Greece
Progressive International
- African Action Congress
- Akina Mama wa Afrika
- Andhra Pradesh Vyavsaya Vruthidarula Union
- Autonomous Design Group
- Brandworkers
- Broad Front (Costa Rica)
- Catalunya en Comú
- Central Única dos Trabalhadores
- Code Pink
- Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Do not let Belgrade drown
- Green–Left Front
- Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain
- Lëvizja Bashkë
- Landless People's Movement (Namibia)
- Latin American Council of Social Sciences
- Left Bloc (Russia)
- Liberty and Refoundation
- Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan
- MeRA25
- National Alliance of People's Movements
- National Garment Workers Federation
- Peace and Justice Project
- Progressive International
- Social Convergence
- Socialist Refoundation Party
- Solidarity Party of Afghanistan
- Sudanese Professionals Association
- Sunrise Movement
- The Left (Slovenia)
- The World Transformed
- Women Democratic Front
- Antarsya
- Christian Democracy (Greece)
- Course of Freedom
- Democratic Social Movement
- Drachmi Greek Democratic Movement Five Stars
- Fighting Socialist Party of Greece
- MeRA25
- National Liberation Front (Greece)
- New Fighter
- Popular Unity (Greece)
- Radicals (Greece)
- Society First
- Syriza
Syndicalist political parties
- Common Wealth Party
- Fascio Rivoluzionario d'Azione Internazionalista
- Libertarian Municipal People
- MeRA25
- Partido Auténtico
- Portuguese Maximalist Federation
- Socialist Labor Party (Australia)
- Socialist Labor Party of America
- Socialist Labour Party (UK, 1903)
- Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum)
- Socialist Party of the Czechoslovak Working People
- Socialisti.sk
- Syndicalist Party
- United Trade Unions of Serbia "Sloga"
- Young Socialists (Sweden)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeRA25
Also known as Mera25.gr.