MERA25 (an abbreviation from the Greek: Μέτωπο Ευρωπαϊκής Ρεαλιστικής Ανυπακοής; German: Europäische realistische Ungehorsamfront, lit.
In an internal Europe-wide online vote, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 decided to establish another political association in Germany for the 2019 European elections.
Laura Müller and Jasper Finkeldey were elected as the two chairpersons at the General Assembly of Democracy in Europe – DiEM25 on 24 November 2018.
[15][16] In October of the same year, the party launched a petition for the immediate resignation of Foreign Minister Baerbock of the Greens because of complicity "in serious violations of international law, including genocide and apartheid" with regard to the war in Israel and Gaza since 2023.
[17] Tobias Prüwer wrote in the anti-German weekly Jungle World that "international anti-Zionism" had found its German party in MERA25.