Euro crisis

  • En América, con la llegada de Franklin D. Rooselvet, se imprimió un giro radical en dirección a la recuperación económica y a la lucha contra el desempleo. Al respecto no se puede sino contemplar críticamente lo que está sucediendo en la Europa actual.

  • Tthe dissolution of  the EMU is not the end of EU – quite the contrary. If that recognition is understood, some necessary changes of the currency system might bring a kind of euro-realism into the collaboration of the EU.
     

  • According to ECB the future of the euro countries is entrusted to "structural reforms", a very misleading formula to indicate the reverse of the social rights in a framework of impoverished and powerless working class

  • The  letter sent  by Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Daghi to Italian government clarifies the  economic and social guidelines of the ECB: a true neoliberal approach that hardly can avert the eurozone's crisis.

  • A European Public Finance Authority  that would be governed by member countries should issue bonds that the ECB can buy and sell through standard open-market operations.

  • According to "The Economist", Germany considers Eurobonds with horror, since they would be a big sacrifice for the creditworthy nations of the euro area. Stuart Holland turns down this argument.
     

  •  Attempts to redress solvency via fiscal austerity in the midst of a crisis are aggravating the problem born with the financial crisis.
     

  • The undesirability and ineffectiveness of exit from the Eurozone, and the Ponzi-like nature of continued assistance to insolvent sovereign debtors, leaves only one option: default – preferably consensual and negotiated with creditors.

                                                                       

  • Is an orderly debt restructuring really so lethal to the Greek economy? The true problem is that a debt restructuring imply that the debt burden is shared between the debtor and his creditors,but he European official position is that the burden should entirely bear upon Greek citizens.
     

  • The crisis of the European Union' social paradigmes and the need of a new institutional framework