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Schäuble pensará que el pueblo griego no es soberano, como tampoco lo es el alemán.Pero la pregunta es que si ningún Estado en Europa es ya soberano, entonces ¿quién lo es? Si la UE es ya la nueva entidad política soberana, entonces no puede llover a gusto de todos claro. Pero, ¿lo es? Y si no, ¿quién lo es?
Cita de: lectorhinfluyente1984 en Julio 01, 2015, 18:25:05 pmSchäuble pensará que el pueblo griego no es soberano, como tampoco lo es el alemán.Pero la pregunta es que si ningún Estado en Europa es ya soberano, entonces ¿quién lo es? Si la UE es ya la nueva entidad política soberana, entonces no puede llover a gusto de todos claro. Pero, ¿lo es? Y si no, ¿quién lo es?Los USA.
Zoom out a bit from the gushing river of breaking news about Greece’s fiscal future, and here’s the big picture of what looks to have happened in Athens on Wednesday.Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, has spent the last six months, since his left-wing Syriza party came to power, trying to shift the entire political framework of his country’s bailout negotiations. That effort has failed. By indicating that his government could accept much of what Greece’s creditors demanded as conditions for a bailout extension late last week, Mr. Tsipras seems to have finally acknowledged this inability to reset the terms of debate over austerity and democracy in Europe.For five years, the simple trade-off offered by the richer European countries and the European Central Bank has been this: If Greece accepts massive austerity — like pension cuts and layoffs of government employees — it can remain in the eurozone with the help of bailouts, with central bank credit extended to Greek banks, and so on. Austerity was the price to be paid for keeping the monetary stability created by the euro currency.
Mr. Tsipras believes — and plenty of American and British economists are sympathetic to this view — that this trade-off was driven by bad economics and had disastrous human consequences. Austerity without debt write-downs created a depression, making the debt burden even harder to handle.So instead of accepting the basic trade-off that creditors have been offering Greece for five years, with those disastrous results, Mr. Tsipras has tried to create an environment in which European leaders would have to rethink their understanding of the proper trade-offs for Greece.That’s why you have things like this opinion article Mr. Tsipras wrote for The Irish Times in January. Or this article by Mr. Tsipras in the French newspaper Le Monde last month, arguing that “the issue of Greece does not only concern Greece; rather, it is the very epicenter of conflict between two diametrically opposing strategies concerning the future of European unification.”Why would a Greek politician with countless problems on the domestic front bother writing op-eds for newspapers in Ireland or France? Both articles, and many more public and private efforts by Mr. Tsipras and his allies, have been part of a concerted effort to persuade other countries to join a coalition to reject the German-led focus on austerity above all else.But the effort has failed. The deal on offer from creditors late last week, before the Greek government walked away from negotiations and called a referendum, fit the same basic framework of trading austerity for bailouts of earlier deals, even if it made some adjustments around the edges to lessen some of the pain.The Greek government was surely hoping that by walking away and calling a referendum, the creditors would rethink their intransigence, fearful of the economic and geopolitical consequences of letting Greece leave the eurozone. If anything, it pushed Germany and France, as well as Spain and Italy, closer together, full of exasperation with the Greeks’ negotiating style and aggressive demands.
For the clearest example of how deeply this strategy has failed, consider comments published Tuesday by the Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, who would seem to be a prime target to reshift the framework of Europe’s negotiations along Greek-favored lines.“The point is that Greece may get different conditions, but it has to abide by the rules,” Mr. Renzi told Il Sole 24 Ore, according to a BBC translation. “It’s not the case that we have taken early retirement pensions away from the people of Italy just to allow the Greeks to have them! We have brought in labor reform, but it is not the case that, with our money, a number of Greek shipowners can continue not to pay taxes. I could go on.”Mr. Renzi fretted over the precedents if there were a radical rethinking of Greece’s deal: “If there is a mass get-out clause over the rules, what will happen in Spain in October? And in France in a year and a half? It is one thing to ask for flexibility amid abidance by the rules. It is another thing to think that one is the craftiest of them all, in other words to be the one that does not abide by the rules. We want to save Greece. But the people of Greece also have to want that.”Mr. Tsipras was hoping that the threat of a Greek exit would get Europe to blink. The opposite seemed to happen.Against that backdrop, his choices were limited. He could either reopen the negotiations within the basic framework the creditors demanded, or face being the prime minister who drove Greece away from Europe, losing his own job, or both.He chose the former. But with the country already having missed a debt payment to the International Monetary Fund and events unfolding quickly and unpredictably, the question now is whether he was too late.
[...] Mr. Tsipras believes — and plenty of American and British economists are sympathetic to this view — that this trade-off was driven by bad economics and had disastrous human consequences. Austerity without debt write-downs created a depression, making the debt burden even harder to handle. [...]
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Nah, el discurso anti austeridad lo han asumido casi todos en la izquierda, ya sea norteamericana o europea.
Cita de: muyuu en Julio 01, 2015, 19:41:15 pmNah, el discurso anti austeridad lo han asumido casi todos en la izquierda, ya sea norteamericana o europea.En norteamérica no hay izquierda, y en Europa prácticamente tampoco (quedan masas de descontentos o añorantes del boom lifestyle, a los que se pone en movimiento con demagogia fucsia - que no roja).El discurso anti-austeridad es mera propaganda. En España no ha habido austeridad ninguna (hemos seguido gastando más que ingresando) ni se ha seguido recomendación ni mandato europeo ninguno, y hay mucho discurso anti-austeridad.El discurso anti-austeridad es muy emocional y ofrece un culpable muy cómodo que sustituye a los verdaderos problemas de cada país (p.ej., las castas extractivas nacionales, las redes clientelares, la corrupción, la falta de ingresos tributarios post-burbuja, etc.).El discurso anti-austeridad sirve:-a quien quiere aparentar ser izquierda, para plantear una situación político-emocional de David/Robin Hood contra Goliath/Sheriff de Nottigham, con la que ganarse a las masas - con el plus añadido de quedar uno estupendamente bien si pierde contra el supuesto supervillano.- a quien quiere abortar el proyecto europeo (el eje anglo, que lleva unos días agitadísimo y agitador) para crear fricciones y vacíos entre países de la UE (con poco éxito) y entre las opiniones públicas de los países de la UE (con mayor éxito). En este sentido, Steve Keen está desatado (cosa que no esperaba).
El discurso anti-austeridad sirve:-a quien quiere aparentar ser izquierda, para plantear una situación político-emocional de David/Robin Hood contra Goliath/Sheriff de Nottigham, con la que ganarse a las masas - con el plus añadido de quedar uno estupendamente bien si pierde contra el supuesto supervillano.- a quien quiere abortar el proyecto europeo (el eje anglo, que lleva unos días agitadísimo y agitador) para crear fricciones y vacíos entre países de la UE (con poco éxito) y entre las opiniones públicas de los países de la UE (con mayor éxito). En este sentido, Steve Keen está desatado (cosa que no esperaba).
5/20/2015 @ 2:42AM 30,166 viewsTheir first proposal addressed the real cause of the crisis: the parlous state of many Greek (and Spanish and Cypriot) private banks after the crisis. The current arrangement requires the Greek government to borrow on their behalf from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM); they propose instead that the ESM should take over: Citar Our proposal is that a national government should have the option of waiving its right to supervise and resolve a failing bank. Shares equivalent to the needed capital injection will then pass to the ESM… Reform may entail a merger, downsizing, even a full resolution of the bank, with the understanding that steps will be taken to avoid, above all, a haircut of deposits. Once the bank has been restructured and recapitalised, the ESM will sell its shares and recoup its costs.Their second recognised the Maastricht Treaty’s limit on government debt of 60% of GDP, and proposed that this could also be an obligation of the ECB (European Central Bank). Since a 60% of GDP level was allowed, this should be funded by bonds backed by the ECB which would still be serviced by the Greek government. With the ECB issuing the bonds, the interest rate on them would reflect the credit rating of the ECB—which is absolute—rather than the tenuous credit rating of Greece. Rates on these bonds would fall from over 10% now to just above zero—and what holders would lose in returns they would gain in the certainty that the bonds would be honoured.The third proposal was to use the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the almost dormant European Investment Fund (EIF) to fund infrastructure investments throughout Europe. Bonds used to finance this investment would be debt of the European Union in general, which is quite low, rather than of any member states. The fourth was to start a Emergency Social Solidarity Programme to undo some of the enormous harm that austerity progams have done to living standards in Europe. This program would:Citar guarantee access to nutrition and to basic energy needs for all Europeans, by means of a European Food Stamp Programme modelled on its US equivalent and a European Minimum Energy Programme.These proposals are both modest and separable, and only the third and fourth proposals breach Schäuble’s uncompromising assertion that “Stimulus—both in fiscal and monetary policy—is not part of the plan”. Varoufakis expected that, when he became Finance Minister for Greece, he would be able to raise these proposals with his counterparts. Surely they could agree to the first two proposals—and certainly to the second, which would involve no cost to other EU partners? But instead he has found that his fellow Finance Ministers are unwilling to discuss anything except compliance with the existing, failing, program of austerity. For his exasperation at this, he is accused of “hectoring” his fellow Finance Ministers.
Our proposal is that a national government should have the option of waiving its right to supervise and resolve a failing bank. Shares equivalent to the needed capital injection will then pass to the ESM… Reform may entail a merger, downsizing, even a full resolution of the bank, with the understanding that steps will be taken to avoid, above all, a haircut of deposits. Once the bank has been restructured and recapitalised, the ESM will sell its shares and recoup its costs.
guarantee access to nutrition and to basic energy needs for all Europeans, by means of a European Food Stamp Programme modelled on its US equivalent and a European Minimum Energy Programme.
Or alternatively, could we please have some more of your taxpayers’ money to spend on our voters? Great politics domestically in Greece, not so hot in other eurozone countries.