L’Europa che non c’é
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of Ilvio Pannullo 
These are hard times for Europe, crushed by the economic failures and questioned due to increasingly desperate masses. While Athens capital of classical culture, the deepest roots of Western thought, burning with rage and frustration of a generation deprived of any acceptable future, Dublin began to take to the streets shouting to the coup of bankers and wheeler-technocratic. Needless to retrace all the steps that have now brought the sovereign states of Europe under the slap of the market.
To sum sufficient to recall that what is happening today is the result of the socialization of loss, damage, unscrupulous financial alchemy of greedy companies. Legal persons, abstractions ultimately covering their brands with the interests of private parties, individuals, real flesh and blood human beings motivated solely by profit, the desire to accumulate wealth and therefore power. If on the one hand, in times of prosperity gains are privatized, the other when the wheel turns the losses are borne by the community.
The first thing they ask is if it really was necessary to strike pay and pensions - such as governments and media have supported and continue to support - and seek to rescue mechanism della Banca Centrale Europea, del Fondo Monetario Internazionale e dell’Unione Europea con l’asfissia economica, politica e sociale che da esso deriva. Nel 1936, la Grecia rifiutò, pur riconoscendo l’esistenza dell’obbligazione, il pagamento del debito contratto con la banca belga Société Générale de Belgique. Il governo belga, allora, intentò causa innanzi alla Corte Internazionale della Società delle Nazioni contro la Grecia, accusando quest’ultima del mancato rispetto di un patto internazionale. Il Paese ellenico rispose che l’insolvenza era giustificata dal pericolo che il pagamento avrebbe significato per il popolo e lo Stato.
Nel promemoria, the greek government wrote: "The government of Greece, worried about the vital interests of the Hellenic people, government, economics, public health and safety and security of the country, had no other choice" but that the restructuring of debt contract with the Belgian bank (Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1980, v. II, part I, p.25-26). In 1938, the Court recognized the reasons for Greece, creating a legal precedent on which, among other things, he based the Argentine government in 2003.
All this happened in 1936. It is therefore disturbing that the greek government in 2010, mindful of its legal history, sia riuscito a convincere la maggioranza dell’elettorato, circa l’ineluttabilità del ricorso al meccanismo di salvataggio. C’era un’alternativa, ma si è scelto di non prenderla in considerazione, di non discuterne neanche imponendo un processo di risanamento a tappe forzate. Una scelta che gronda lacrime e sangue.
Anche l’Irlanda ha subito la stessa indecente violenza. Scrive il Professore Robert E. Prasch, economista del Middlebury College, USA: “L’Irlanda poteva semplicemente dichiarare il fallimento, rinegoziare il suo debito e far capire ai suoi creditori che l’alternativa era prendere o lasciare un’offerta unilaterale del governo Dublin. But the International Monetary Fund and the European Union have understood this way out and have included the terms for the "bailout" of Ireland's claim that his government was being played as a guarantee to investors the money from the Pensions Reserve Fund National Irish ... simply put, the survival of pensioners in Ireland will be held hostage by this agreement. "
" Not surprisingly - continued the professor Prasco - to learn that one of the conditions of that agreement " rescue "of Ireland there are unexplained details such as the obligation to provide for families ogni casa di un contatore dell’acqua a unità separate, precondizione essenziale per la privatizzazione del servizio. O la riduzione dei già miseri stipendi minimi. Cos’hanno a che fare i contatori dell’acqua e gli stipendi minimi con le frodi bancarie, le deregulations, e la condotta folle del governo che hanno creato e nutrito questa crisi? Li hanno incastrati: il FMI, la UE e il governo di Dublino sono d’accordo che la via migliore è di smollare i rischi e i costi associati col salvataggio delle banche a coloro che non c’entrano nulla con quella frode e che ne hanno beneficiato zero.”
E ancora: “Gli appiopperanno più tasse e più alte, abbasseranno salaries for civil servants, will raise fees for students, assistance will collapse to the poor and unemployed will be cut benefits for families with small children, will be saved while groups of wealthy individuals, corporations, almost all of the bankers and foreign speculators. "Finally - continues Prash - without doubt the bankers and bureaucrats of the IMF and the EU crisis in Ireland have seized a unique opportunity: the possibility of imposing the Irish economic policy decided by an unelected power and out of control, just as under British hegemony 800. You could not write well.
hours Far from wanting to play at the prophets of doom, what concerns us here is to start thinking about how to save our continent from a similar future. How to transform the current European Union, already described as an economic giant, a political dwarf and military worm, into something new and better, perhaps taking the moves from the idea of \u200b\u200ba federal Europe is rooted in culture and ancient continental . You might mention Carlo Cattaneo and her comment that it anticipated a century, our culture of a united Europe: "We will have peace when we have the United States of Europe". In fact, even if the drive is still largely imperfect, this objective was, at least in part, achieved in countries that have been forming the European Union and have enjoyed for the first time in history, fifty years of peace.
The Federal and European tradition has its roots in ancient times, in a secular path of exhausting negotiations between the governments, without frustrations and defeats, with the endless compromises that had to accept those who have often dedicated their lives the construction of a truly united. What is missing? What is still missing today? Probably the peoples of Europe, of which many speak correctly, but that now seem to be missing the big for lack of a true awareness of their common political horizon, economic and social development.
It started in the past century and continued into the present, a process of great transformation of European civilization. But another Europe, with this new identity, there seems to still exist, unable - as today - to build a large federal state, able to cope with emerging demographic and economic powers like India and China , which are being developed each with over 1 billion people, or to cope with the historical powers like the United States of America and the Russia Federation.
This is dramatic and urgent need for governments of the 27 states of the so-called European Union is not involved. It is therefore time to revive a European federalist movement, because today, right now it's time to mobilize the people to save Europe and with it its own history, their culture, their traditions and customs.
The negative vote of the people of France (May 2005) and Dutch (June 2005), expressed in the consultative referendum on the draft of a Constitution for Europe, and the Irish people to the Treaty of Lisbon (June 2008) even if modified in the second referendum (October 2009), arises from a problem of content and purpose the European project, as well as method. It is necessary to redefine its raison d'être of the European Union, the ultimate in European integration, the Economic and Monetary Union, defending the values \u200b\u200bof freedom and democracy are merely the means.
To come back to see the sun in the skies of Europe, the poster for a free and united, also known as "manifest Ventotene, more than fifty years ago, may be the first step inspiration, with its strong denunciation of the "crisis of the nation state", the "actuality of the struggle for a European federation", of the "priority of the European federation" than any other policy objective, the "moving at a European level of the dividing line between progressive forces and forces of conservatism", the "creation of a new political entity to lead the fight for the European Federation "together with the claim of" a European Constituent Assembly "as a tool to build a European democratic power.
There is no time and the dramatic economic crisis will accelerate the realization of those now on the streets of the continent vent their anger against the puppets of power. That policy unable to see, understand and then solve problems. It's up to avoid the traps, how to identify, for example, the "strategy of tension" that from 1969 to 1984 in Italy destroyed all the good self-awareness and self-determination of the masses had, with difficulty, cleverly constructed.
We must not and can not again commit the same mistakes of the past. Urge therefore a new method: do not close their analysis schema, creatively confront the reality in its evolution, guided by ideals not passing as tenaciously to the unity and the common sense of Europe, to recover any inevitable defeat. Urge an indomitable will to action that is an inspiration to all those working to advance the European integration process, with eyes fixed on the future.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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Il decennio dei "nuovi poveri" europei
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Andy Robinson
La Vanguardia
. E 'less flamboyant of the archetype of the decade prodigious but you could see at each stop of a winter journey to Europe of austerity. Men gaze listlessly begging Christmas in the Philharmonic pub in Liverpool a few meters away from the flaming empty apartments built in a fit of euphoria for the year of European Capital of Culture. "Penny, euro cents, and I everything is fine" . Workers on strike in the waiting room of the railway station in Lisbon, asleep in agonizing positions. Adolescents aged white faces in the employment offices in Dublin at a pace of skeletal bronze statues of Famine Memorial, a tribute to the victims of the famine of 1840 and the subsequent mass emigration. Ecuadorian women looking in garbage cans in front of Carrefour in a district centered in Madrid looking for scraps of food.
Although it is difficult to quantify the impact it will have the double blow of recession and fiscal austerity in the most vulnerable strata of the European countries most affected by the crisis, mainly the periphery of the euro area, Ireland, Portugal, Greece and -Spain, the United Kingdom and Eastern European countries. "comparable poverty data do not help us because they date back to 2007, the peak of the boom says Christos Papatheodoruo, an economist in poverty expert at the University of Athens.
"But is not very difficult to deduce what is happening: what differentiates a country with a high poverty rate by another is the ability of social protection systems ". far in the troubled European periphery, no financial institution has been able or wanted to make a quantitative estimate of the impact of cuts on poverty. But in the United Kingdom, the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Rowntree Foundation this week published the results of a major analysis of the mega-adjustment of the budget adopted by the government of David Cameron which claims to reduce the deficit British of 10% del PIL fino al 2% entro il 2015. Sono devastanti ed hanno delle implicazioni preoccupanti per i paesi come la Spagna che cominciano ad adottare politiche simili.
IFS e Rowntree prevedono che i tagli ai sistemi di protezione sociale per un valore di circa 9.000 milioni di euro finiranno per creare quasi un milione di nuovi poveri nei prossimi 4 anni.
Il primo impatto della crisi saranno 400.000 single senza figli che si sommeranno alle file della povertà assoluta (con entrate minori al 60% delle entrate medie adeguate per l’inflazione) nel 2011.
Sono i primi “nuovi poveri” britannici. I bambini sono protetti inizialmente grazie ad un tax credit for families with children, a legacy of previous government. But after the cuts to Cameron and Nick Clegg will also hit families. A set of measures, reductions in child allowances, income support for cuts to the working poor, less aid for rents, cuts in subsidies for the disabled, the VAT increase, price increase for Social Security-will eventually to increase the ranks of the 300,000 children in poverty between 2012 and 2014. In 2014, 900,000 more people will be incorporated into poverty.
in Liverpool where 42% of the population now qualifies as a private salary required, one in three workers, belongs to the public sector. So draconian plans to eliminate 600,000 civil servants over the next four years, probably aggravate the increase in poverty. And in a winter with arctic temperatures, where even the sea is frozen, there is increasing concern about the so-called fuel poverty (Fuel Poverty) - People who spend more than 10% of its income just to heat the house. According to a new study, there will be seven million fuel poor in 2016 in the United Kingdom, a country where-as said an environmentalist, George Monbiot in his blog Monbiot.com - more and more elderly people die of cold each year than the percentages of Siberia.
Dickensian England seems to be especially during this festive season. But it is not the only country adopting austerity measures worthy of Ebeneezer Scrooge, the protagonist of bad villancico Christmas. And because the adjustments are already in motion in the periphery of the euro zone this share much with the British and it is logical to think that the impact on poverty can be just as devastating as what predicts' s IFS. After all, the plan austerity Cameron was trained by Jose Barroso as "the right medicine required"
, Barroso is the President of the Portuguese Commission Europea. In Irlanda, ad esempio, sappiamo che l’indicatore di povertà misurata in termini di reddito, più un indicatore di privazione materiale- la frequenza di mangiare carne o pesce, riscaldamento, capacità di restituire i prestiti- è salito di uno spaventoso 25% tra il 2008 ed il 2009 dopo i primi tagli irlandesi con lo scopo di ridurre il deficit dal 9,4% al 3% del PIL nel 2014. Adesso- tra un’altra serie di tagli brutali, condizione del “riscatto” del FMI e dell’UE- l’Irlanda già sembra destinata al ritorno al futuro della sua storia di povertà e sofferenza.
“Non abbiamo dati per replicare all’analisi dell’IFS britannico but there are already many anecdotal evidence; incredible increase of people who are cut or the light that goes to distribution centers for food " says Sinead Pentony, an economist at think tank Dublin TASC. The decision to reduce by 12% the minimum wage impact on poverty in spite of this, with its € 7.60 per hour is the highest compared to other peripheral countries. "We have food prices highest in the EU, the highest for kindergartens and increased the VAT , Pentony said. And now back in the habit most Irish of all: "People go away en masse, mainly verso l’Australia” , aggiunge. Da aprile, si calcola che circa 100.000 irlandesi sono emigrati. In Portogallo- con uno stipendio minimo di 470 euro al mese, solo 50 al di sopra della soglia di povertà- gli ultimi aumenti dell’IVA e requisiti più esigenti per accedere a servizi anti povertà aumenteranno il numero di lavoratori poveri, secondo quanto calcola Isabel Baptista del Centro di studi per la Ricerca Sociale a Lisbona .
“E’ chiaro che non basta avere un lavoro per evitare la povertà” , dice. Allo stesso modo, l’esaurimento degli assegni per disoccupazione in un paese con un 10% di disoccupati aumenterà le file dei poveri senza work, "Although there are very concrete data, there is abundant historical evidence, an increase of 30 or 40% of people who resort to food aid," said Baptista. "In 2011, we will have 200,000 unemployed without social security " Ameno said Carlos, the Portuguese manager of the union CGPT. In Greece, for its part, the draconian cuts in salaries and work in public and private sector are undermining the ability of traditional Greek family to cushion the economic crisis. "The head of the family lose purchasing power and that in many cases the family condemned to poverty" says Papthedorou. Posted by Alba kan.
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