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Rise of Neoliberal and Undemocratic Europe. What is the continuity you see between the moment of Maastricht through the Lisbon Agenda and the Lisbon Treaty, to the Six Pack and now this new Fiscal Treaty?
The Maastricht Treaty was a treaty that presented two completely arbitrary figures: 3 percent budget deficit with regard to the GNP and 60 percent for the debt. Why not 4 per cent or 2 per cent? Why not 55 or 65 per cent? Nobody knows. They came out of the sky, those numbers, doubtless from the Bundesbank. When the time of Lisbon came, we'd rather stopped talking about that. In France, we had a huge campaign based on about 1000 collectives that sprung up all over the country, but nobody in the establishment expected us to win. So what happened after that? So here we have Lisbon, we're not allowed to vote on it because obviously we're going to vote the wrong way. And so, they didn't vote correctly either. We have a serious problem with this because Brussels wants austerity. What do they do? Susan George. Susan George: How to win the Class War November 2013 The Transnational Institute is proud to present Susan George's compelling satirical 'guide for corporate leaders': How to win the Class War – The Lugano Report II Debt, austerity, devastation July 2013 As the creditors get fatter, the innocent are punished.
Corporate power and crisis January 2013 Susan George provides an introduction to TNI's State of Power 2013 report, exposing how the unprecedented concentration of corporate and elite power is at the root of our economic and ecological crisis. Economic Crisis and the Christian Conscience To which aspects of this crisis should Germans and especially German Christians be most attentive? Neoliberal strategies and the European crisis November 2012 Austerity policies in Europe are telling people two things: that they are guilty for the crisis because they have been living beyond their means and that they need to pay for it. Rise of Neoliberal and Undemocratic Europe. Naomi Klein. Published at The Intercept Now that it seems virtually certain that Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, and the climate movement is quite rightly mobilizing in the face of this latest dystopian lurch, it’s time to get real about something: Pretty much everything that is weak, disappointing, and inadequate about that deal is the result of U.S. lobbying since 2009.
The fact that the agreement only commits governments to keeping warming below an increase of 2 degrees, rather than a much safer firm target of 1.5 degrees, was lobbied for and won by the United States. The fact that the agreement left it to individual nations to determine how much they were willing to do to reach that temperature target, allowing them to come to Paris with commitments that collectively put us on a disastrous course toward more than 3 degrees of warming, was lobbied for and won by the United States. Mänskliga rättigheter Amnesty. Welcome to Third World Network (TWN) "Too Big to Fail" The News Dissector.