24/04/2019 (Agence Europe) – The European Spring launched a petition on Tuesday 23 April, to get its Spitzenkandidat - the Greek and initiator of DiEM25, Yanis Varoufakis - invited to the Spitzenkandidaten debate organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on 15 May. The reason for excluding Mr Varoufakis invoked by EBU is that he is not the Spitzenkandidat of a political group represented in the European Parliament and institutional. The same arguments are put forward by the newspaper Politico and the University of Maastricht for not inviting the former Greek minister to the 'Maastricht Debate' scheduled for 29 April, which are based on the list of European parties registered with the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations. An attempt by existing parties that seek nothing more than the "status quo", according to an internal source. To consult the petition: https://bit.ly/2W3o8Ub. (PH)