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FOR the past six decades, steps forward to greater European union have taken place at moments of incipient crisis. None, though, has been taken in a time of disaster.

The euro crisis: An ever-deeper democratic deficit

http://www.economist.com/node/21555927

And politicians ? They have a limited scope (and this damned treaty take again the so little power they have !) even if it doesn't prevent any for being greedy. Psss ! by alwen Jun 9

Greedy indeed, this is the point. Have you seen that ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHW9RLuKIg&feature=share by alwen Jun 9

In a dreamed world maybe. ;) The debt is too useful to gain profit, it's like a financial long term pension. And it will be difficult to put back meters to 0. But you're right it's not because it's difficult that we have to give up any hope. "On lâche rien", we are still there. :p by alwen Jun 9

With local and complementary currency ? by alwen Jun 9

En effet ! A croire que cette crise tombe parfaitement pour controler un peu plus le peuple.
Indeed ! It's seem that this crisis falls perfectly to control a little more the people.
The new treaty of financial stability comes at it !
Thanks I'm taking this pearl. by alwen Jun 8

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/restoring-european-growth

Restoring European Growth - Jim Leitner, Nuno Monteiro and Ian Shapiro - Project Syndicate

Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph NEW YORK – Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis has rumbled on for so long that some people are beginning to take it for granted that eurozone leaders can continue to stumble from one non-solution to the next without risk of cataclysm.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/stephen-king/stephen-king-a-thousand-years-onan-updated-silk-road-will-bypass-the-west-6296650.html Yet, over the last few days, there was a surprising lack of big picture thinking.

Stephen King: A thousand years on,an updated Silk Road will bypass the West - Stephen King - Business Comment

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Capturing the ECB - Joseph E. Stiglitz - Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stiglitz148/English
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137611/abraham-newman/austerity-and-the-end-of-the-european-model?cid=soc-facebook-in-snapshots-austerity_and_the_end_of_the_european_model-050212 A May Day demonstration in central Madrid. (Susana Vera / Courtesy Reuters) Since the onset of the European sovereign debt crisis in 2010, countries across the continent have responded by imposing fiscal austerity.

Austerity and the End of the European Model

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"The Crises of Summer" by Harold James