Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières

Norway and the Crisis of the European Welfare State

SIMOVIC Vladimir, VESIC Darko, WAHL Asbjørn — 2013-03-26T20:18:25Z

The interview was conducted by Vladimir Simovic and Darko Vesic from Centre of the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) , Serbia, and translated by the Transform Network . Vladimir Simovic and Darko Vesic (VS and DV): Norway is considered as one of the most successful (economically, socially, etc.) countries in Europe and beyond. As such Norway is usually taken as a model for other countries to look up to. But the real question would be is Norway an exception in this age of neoliberal capitalism (...) - Which Europe? / Neoliberalism (Eng), Norway

The Euro, the Greek Crisis, and the Left

KLOKE Andrea — 2012-10-09T22:39:12Z

As this is written, in early September, the Greek government is expected to soon announce its new “austerity program”—aligned with the troika, of course—which will initiate another round to plunge working and young people, pensioners, migrants into yet deeper despair. However, it is quite possible “that the Greeks could spare themselves the trouble of the economy package. Governments in Europe are preparing long before, expecting that and the next report of (...) - Which Europe? / Strategy, Greece, Syriza (Greece), Antarsya (Greece), Euro (Eng)

Working people have no interest in saving the euro

LAPAVITSAS Costas — 2012-08-20T10:33:32Z

Costas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, spoke to Stefan Bornost about the crisis in the eurozone. Stefan Bornost – For starters the crystal ball: Will we still pay with euro in 2015? Costas Lapavitsas – Some countries will probably still pay with euro in 2015 but it is highly unlikely that all present members of the eurozone will continue to use it.1 The euro in its current form is unsustainable and it will (...) - Which Europe? / France (Eng), Debt, Crisis (financial), Germany, Greece, Euro (Eng)

Europe : What emergency programme for the crisis?

MILLET Damien — 2012-07-01T22:52:49Z

The European governments, in accordance with IMF criteria, have made the choice of imposing strict austerity measures on their peoples. Slicing away public spending, lay-offs, pay freezes and salary cuts for civil servants, reduced access to vital public services and welfare, later retirement age, etc. Increased cost for public transport, water distribution, health services, education, etc. Heavier indirect and particularly unfair taxes like VAT. Massive privatization of companies in (...) - Which Europe? / Ecology, Debt, Program (Eng), Finance (eng)

No to a bosses' Europe – the politics of the EU and the eurozone crisis

Socialist Resistance (Britain), THORNETT Alan — 2012-04-20T07:15:33Z

The general line of this article was approved by the National Committee of Socialist Resistance (British section of the Fourth International) on the 24th of March 2012. 1) The origins of European integration The origins of European integration, which started with the European Coal and Steel Community (EC&SC) in 1951 and exists today as the European Union (EU) with its Eurozone, can be located in the closing stages of World War II. The European bourgeoisies needed to consolidate their (...) - Which Europe? / Great Britain, Program (Eng)

Another Road for Europe

PORTA Donatella della — 2012-02-17T00:36:03Z

The Euro crisis is more than an economic crisis; it has also unveiled an insidious disregard for democracy at the heart of the European project. How can we democratise the EU “from below”? These papers have been prepared as background for the TNI-Red Pepper-LSE conference to be held on 17 February in London School of Economics London “Taking on the technocrats: paths towards another Europe.” ‘Italy needs reforms not elections,' declared Herman Van (...) - Which Europe?

A different kind of Europe

EVANS Trevor — 2012-02-17T00:33:04Z

What would a progressive pan-European response to the Euro crisis look like? Professor Trevor Evans calls for a radical downsizing of the financial sector, debt audits, democratisation of the Commission and a full employment policy. These papers have been prepared as background for the TNI-Red Pepper-LSE conference to be held on 17 February in London School of Economics “Taking on the technocrats: paths towards another Europe.” In place of the current German-dominated axis (...) - Which Europe? / Economy, Finance (eng), Euro (Eng)

Another road for Europe: a draft appeal

Collective — 2012-02-17T00:30:30Z

This draft appeal is launched by Rete@sinistra, Sbilanciamoci, il Manifesto and Lavoro e Libertà, who organised and spoke at the Florence Forum, ‘The way out. Europe and Italy, economic crisis and democracy', bringing eight hundred people together to discuss 'our European alternatives' on December 9, 2011. The appeal, accompanied by its initial signatories, is undergoing discussion between several European civil society networks and groups, aiming at joint actions at (...) - Which Europe? / Italy, Il Manifesto (Italy), Organisation de la Conférence islamique (OCI), Lavoro e Libertà (Italia), Rete@sinistra (Italia), Sbilanciamoci (Italia)

The Greek left and the question of the European Union

AFTHINOS Pantelis, KOUSIANTAS Kostas, MELAMPIANAKI Zeta — 2012-01-11T22:39:09Z

Since Greek capitalism has entered the whirlwind of the global financial crisis and particularly from the point that the debt crisis in Greece broke out, the questions of the European Union (EU) and the Euro have emerged as some of the most important debates among the forces of the Left and the working class movement who attempt to shape radical political and movement responses to the crisis of the system. This debate has gained an even bigger importance among those political currents and (...) - Which Europe? / Greece, OKDE-Spartakos (Greece)

On the Slogan for a United States of Europe

LENIN Vladimir — 2012-01-11T22:33:31Z

In No. 40 of Sotsial-Demokrat we reported that a conference of our-Party's groups abroad had decided to defer the question of the “United States of Europe” slogan pending a discussion, in the press, on the economic aspect of the matter. At our conference the debate on this question assumed a purely political character. Perhaps this was partly caused by the Central Committee's Manifesto having formulated this slogan as a forthright political one (“the immediate (...) - Which Europe? / RSDRP (Russia)