Crystal clear, professor

por Penélope 3 Comentários

Paul De Grauwe defende o investimento público para contrariar os efeitos da globalização na Europa e o descontentamento generalizado com a União Europeia. E isto na sequência do Brexit e na perspetiva de novos “exit”. Sabemos que não vai ser ouvido por aqueles que critica, mas devia. Os alemães estão bem, obrigada, não têm qualquer interesse em mudar seja o que for no sentido que De Grauwe deseja. A isto chama-se pregar no deserto, mas com  muita clareza.

Um excerto (leitura integral aconselhada):

[…]The European institutions have become major promoters of globalization. The single market and the trade agreements reached by the European Commission have widely opened up the European gates to globalization. There is nothing wrong with that per se. Except that there is a complete failure to organize the necessary compensation towards the losers of the globalization. The European institutions have no power over social policy, which has been kept in the hands of the national authorities. However, the hands of these authorities have been shackled by the same European institutions’ fiscal rules.

The European fiscal rules not only make it extremely difficult to compensate the losers from globalization. What is worse, they have amplified the hardship of the losers from globalization. Since at least five years the European Commission has pushed all member-countries of the Eurozone into an austerity straightjacket that has produced economic stagnation and rising unemployment mainly of those who had already been hit badly by globalization. It will be no surprise that many turn their backs towards the European institutions that are seen as cold and ready to punish when millions live in hardship.

Not only the fiscal rules but also the structural reforms that have been imposed by the same European institutions are to blame for the rejection of the European Union by millions of people.  European policy makers have adopted the neo-liberal discourse. According to this discourse, workers must be flexible (read: they should be happy when their wages fall, when they can be dismissed quickly and when they receive less unemployment benefits). The neo-liberal policymakers that now dominate the European Union preach that social security is unproductive and should be downsized. These policies are euphemistically called structural reforms. They are imposed on millions of people, mostly the losers of globalization, by European institutions and national governments alike.[…]

3 thoughts on “Crystal clear, professor”

  3. Basta ler o irmão do Costa, na mais idiota carta pública de que ha memória, para ver q o Linkedin foi afinal inventado pela mãe do PPortas e o pai de ambos enquanto tomavam cha no Hotel da Lapa. A rede profissional conseguiu que os dois filhos de um fossem em simultâneo com os filhos de outro, respectivamente, Vice PM, Director de um jornal, lider da oposição e futuro PM e empresaria na área da saudade. E claro q isto é só merito pessoal, porque nos gostos até são diferentes, o Costa gosta mais de Mercedes e o Paulinho mais de Jags.

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