The European Commission, for the first time, rejected a draft national budget, threatening the opening of a "procedure" against the Italian government. The prospects for possible fundamental changes in the Eurozone.
Inequality of wealth and incomes was recognised as a defining feature of capitalism, as a totally chaotic and anarchic system, naturally generating unemployed labour and under-utilisation of other resources,
This debate on immigration misses the role of the United States in Central America in creating the conditions that have driven so many to risk the long, arduous, and often fatal trek to get here.
During the New Deal and social democracy in Europe governments regulated capital. In the neoliberal era capital regulates government. The central purpose of neoliberal re-regulation is to remove the economic policy from control by representative democracy.
It must finally be understood that the EU Treaties are completely unsuitable for the functioning of monetary union. Since the Dublin Agreement on immigration is also obsolete, a final attempt should be made to adapt the treaties to reality
