In this newsletter you can read about: Overall situation European level Greece Ireland Portugal Cyprus Spain Italy Slovenia From our side Overall situation While the general outlook remains broadly unchanged, with the Troika still pushing for severe austerity and national governments continuing their acts of window-dressing, another important issue has become increasingly prominent: corruption. As…
Today TroikaWatch, a new citizen observatory on the politics of the Troika, officially launches its project. After a one month long beta-phase, TroikaWatch from now on brings news on the Troika, the situation in the countries affected by it and the civil opposition and resistance against it. A monthly newsletter will be published in nine…
In this newsletter you can read about: Overall situation Greece Ireland Portugal Cyprus Spain Italy Slovenia Who we are and why we write this newsletter Overall situation The last months of the year are traditionally the time when national parliaments vote on the budgets for next year. Like in the years before, in many countries…
Steffen Stierle (Attac Germany), April 2013 At the end of March 2013 the European Commission put forward two Communications following on from political negotiations in the European Council and making practical proposals for implementation. The first Communication relates to the future ex ante coordination of economic reforms, while the second concerns the “Convergence and Competitiveness…
Attac Germany The political elites of Europe are planning another attack on social justice and democracy: with the Competitiveness Pact, as Angela Merkel called it during the World economic Forum at Davos, a new instrument is on the agenda in order to enforce drastic measures for social cutbacks and liberalization. By means of bilateral agreements…
Andy Storey (Attac Ireland) / Working Group “Economic Governance” A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of competitiveness. Our leaders regularly tell us (and will again urge us at the December EU Summit) that we must work harder and longer, and for less pay, in order to be more ‘competitive’. We must reduce or give…
Conclusions of the meeting: http://storify.com/ICANetwork/euincrisis-economic-governance-troika-struggles Activists, organisations and networks addressing the undemocratic neoliberal crisis governance imposed from the EU will be meeting in Amsterdam from October 4th to 6th to discuss together which struggle strategies have and are being most successful in each country, with the aim to build a stronger and more coordinated European…
13 August by Jérome Duval (PACD Spain) Six years of recession, an impressive drop in GDP from €231 billion in 2009 to €193 billion in 2012, unemployment at 26.9% in April 2013 from 7.5% in 2008, 57% for the under 25s, and an explosion of suicide cases… This overview of Greece is catastrophic and alarming…