There are several false alternatives out there. They
lie between austerity and exiting the euro with currency devaluation; between
this EU and the nationalistic closure; between the Brussels and the national
oligarchs, always within an antidemocratic context.
(continuation coming soon –
Union of the European Peoples or nationalism on the loose)
Contents
1 – EU – a
project inserted into the capitalistic globalization
2 – The
expansions of the 80s and the creation of the first periphery
3 – The
fall of the Wall and the narrowing of the political view
4 – The
expansion/deepening dilemma
5 – The
devaluation of wages, income and rights
5.1 – Currency devaluation and its
consequences
5.2 – Internal devaluation and its outcomes
6 – Current
dangers
1 – EU – a project inserted into
the capitalistic globalization
The EU project, under the initial
generic name of EEC, was a post-war element born of the realization that
recovery from the conflict’s devastation demanded a concertation within the
noble area of the so-called liberal capitalism – the Occidental Europe and the
USA.
The USA, having avoided the ravages of
war and suffered human losses not comparable with those that occurred in Europe
– especially in the USSR, in absolute terms, and in Greece, in relative terms –
had its production infrastructure unscathed and needed to keep it so, in order
to avoid an unemployment crisis caused by demobilization, as had happened in
the 30s. Even within the context of the
Cold War it would be necessary to replace part of the military production by
consumer goods and equipment and a dismantled Europe was a fertile field in
which to apply that policy.