Pocas personas disfrutan tanto como Susan George (Ohio, 1934) de desnudar el cinismo de las grandes corporaciones y los gobiernos al servicio del capital. George, quien no se despeina al declarar que no es economista sino activista y voz incómoda para las injusticias, retó a los poderosos con su blasfemo “Informe Lugano” que, junto con otros 13 títulos de los que es autora, sigue su lema de ... Read more
15 September 2013 marked the 5th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers seen as the beginning of the world's biggest financial crisis. One could reasonably expect by now that governments would have enacted some significant reforms to stop it ever happening again. Instead for the financial sector it is as if the crisis never happened.... Read more
As a part of our work on economic governance in Europe we have organized a series of debates with the European commission. In relation with the pact of competitiveness being discussed by the European leaders, we set on June 26th a debate with the title Competitiveness vs. democracy? Our guest was Ms. Anne Bucher Director for Structural Reforms and Competitiveness of the European... Read more
A report published in April by the Washington-based [sic] think thank, Transnational Institute, “Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military Spending and the E.U. Crisis“, argued that high levels of European military spending played a key role in the unfolding E.U. debt crisis and continues to undermine efforts to resolve it. “Greece has been Europe’s biggest spender in relative terms for most of the... Read more
Al igual que la peste en el siglo XIV, el azote de la deuda ha ido migrando paulatinamente del Sur al Norte. La Yersinia pestis del siglo XXI no se propaga a través de las ratas infestadas de pulgas, sino del letal fundamentalismo neoliberal, infestado de ideología. Antes, sus adalides tenían nombres como Thatcher o Reagan; ahora suenan más bien a Merkel o Barroso. Pero el mensaje, la... Read more
Like plague in the 14th century, the scourge of debt has gradually migrated from South to North. Our 21st-century Yersinia pestis isn’t spread by flea-infested rats but by deadly, ideology-infested neoliberal fundamentalists. Once they had names like Thatcher or Reagan; now they sound more like Merkel or Barroso; but the message, the mentality and the medicine are basically the same. The... Read more
Our guest was Mr. Maarten Verwey, Deputy Director-General of Financial and Economic Affairs of the European Commission. The panelists, Kenneth Haar (Corporate European Observatory) and John Grahl (Euromemorandum and Middlesex University, UK), challenged key components of the European Commission’s Economic Governance proposals for a “Genuine Economic and Monetary Union” - the main components of... Read more
