Tag: EU

  • Proposals to reform the EU ignore core issues

    A press release of Fabio De Masi

    A trio of reports which aimed at reforming the EU and the Eurozone economy have been given the thumbs down by GUE/NGL MEPs at Tuesday morning’s plenary session in Strasbourg.  Commenting on the Verhofstadt and Bresso, Brok proposals which examined the workings of the Lisbon Treaty, GUE/NGL group ...
  • The EU is destroying Europe

    Fabio De Masi wrote an article on the future of the EU that was first published in German by the newspaper neues deutschland

    There’s a crisis in the EU. First Brexit, now stress with Italy’s banks. Meanwhile, former EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso sets off to work at Goldman Sachs, while his country buckles under the penalties resulting from its budget deficit, despite Portugal’s obedient implementation of the Troika’s reforms ...
  • Democracy and Popular Sovereignty instead of Neoliberal Integration and a failed Euro-System

    Appeal of the Lexit-Network

    With the implementation of the European single market and the Maastricht Treaty, European integration was established as a neoliberal project for the long run. The Stability- and Growth Pact, the fundamental freedoms of the single market and the European monetary union, among other elements, constituted a framework that has fueled austerity policies, the dismantling of workers’ rights and the welfare state and imposed privatization throughout the EU member states ...
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