The Progressive Economy project, which is an initiative supported by the Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (who gave funded work I have undertaken) have issued a new 'Call for Change' endorsed by a group of eminent academics.
I have not read it all as yet, but I felt this paragraph from the introduction more than worthy of being shared:
Europe needs to stand for sustainable growth, quality jobs, fairly shared prosperity and an equal opportunity for all children, regardless of nationality, inspired by a new egalitarian ideal. Today, it stands for none of these.
How true.
And somewhat reminiscent of concerns I shared in the last week.
It is time for change.
PS: Have now read whole thing - and very strongly recommended - what a manifesto should be
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Unfortunately, the EU currency Union is a failure with the ECB being essentially a neo-liberal austrian organisation. The maastricht agreement does not allow for debt free money creation and obsesses about deficit control and low inflation. What worth is a low inflation figure when energy, food and housing is becoming unaffordable (at least in britain). In greece, the austerian message has condemned the ill to death and does not allow sovereign Governments to design their own fiscal responses.