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Inequality as cause and consequence of the crisis
Jean Lambert is a Greens/EFA MEP from the United Kingdom and is a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Romual Jagodziński is a researcher from the European...
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Ecological transformation will not happen in just one country
Daniel Cohn-Bendit is a member of the European Parliament since 1994. On the four occasions he has contested European Parliament elections, he has rotated between standing for the French Greens and...
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Ireland and the EU – a relationship transformed by austerity
Dan Boyle was Chair of Comhaontas Glas/The Irish Green Party during its period in government (2007-2011). He was also Deputy Leader of the upper house of the Irish parliament (Seanad Éireann) over the...
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Austerity in Spain – a failed ideology
Too big to fail Over the last months, a lot of political and media attention on the future of the Euro has been put on Spain, the 12th largest global economy, and 5th within the EU. Likewise Italy –...
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“Solidarity and Strength”: for an open debate on the cause of the crisis
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Why not rescue the banks instead of rescuing Spain?
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Goodbye Germany?
Franziska Brantner and Jan Philipp Albrecht are MEPs for the Alliance 90/The Greens. Brantner studied political science and comes from Baden-Württemberg. At 29 Albrecht is the youngest German MP and...
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Austerity in Spain – a failed ideology
Delfina Rossi studied economics in Barcelona and Florence. She was formerly co-spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens (2010-2011) and currently works in the European Parliament for...
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Only deeper European unification can save the eurozone
This article was originally published in Frankfurter Allgemeine (name in italics) and translated into English by Social Europe Journal. Europe needs a new direction. A restructuring of the eurozone,...
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The European crisis explained in two graphs
1) The sovereign debt crisis stems from the accumulation of external debt (both public and private) in some EU economies since the early 1990s Since 2010, the interest rates on the sovereign bonds of...
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Portugal: When fiction becomes reality
It was a well-known fact that Portugal’s future was not going to be easy when it was forced to turn to international aid due to the impossible conditions imposed on it for access to external financing....
View ArticleDebt and financialisation: the Portuguese example
On the eve of another review and evaluation of the Memorandum of Understanding, signed between Portugal and the Troika (European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund) in...
View ArticleLife and debt
Debt is used by international institutions and local elites to force through economic policies which act against the interests of ordinary people. As the current global financial meltdown fuels a...
View ArticleDebt, the Whole History
David Graeber’s book traces the history of debt (a lengthy history at that), now a concept that has become eminently political. In passing, he also shakes up preconceived ideas on the origin of money,...
View ArticleLearning from the Greeks
It’s over – after weeks of intense campaigning Syriza scored a victory, winning the Greek legislative elections last Sunday. Alexis Tsipras garnered 36.3% of the vote and 149 seats in Parliament, just...
View ArticleSYRIZA and the search for Europe’s alternatives
The rise of the Greek radical left SYRIZA to power, roughly a month ago, was undeniably a shock for Europe’s public sphere. A positive shock for those progressive forces left of centre, that have been...
View ArticleThe Most Recent Greek Paradox: The country’s sole ally in Europe? Angela...
I was there, as co-president of the European Green Party, along with Mar Garcia, Secretary General of the European Green Party, Vula Tsetsi, Secretary General of the Green Parliamentary Group at the...
View ArticleThe Deception of Privatisation in Greece
For decades, a wave of privatisation has been rolling across Europe, making many investors, banks and consultancies rich but making few citizens happy. The great neoliberal promise of privatised...
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The EU Printed €700 billion as a Desperate Plan to Save the Economy. It...
The Eurozone has been troubled by stagnating growth and low inflation since 2013 and we still haven’t fixed problems of high national debt. In order to evade another economic earthquake similar to or...
View ArticleEU Economics Meets Democracy
EU leaders seem to deny the ineffectiveness of the response given to the financial and economic crisis as we see inequality and extremism on the rise. The European Union will be unprepared for the...
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