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the very heart of the European Union

Neoliberal policies are at the very heart of the European Union. This demands that the social and political organizations of the Left find the avenues that will allow them to activate a new plan for the Continent, running against the forms that the integration process has taken in the past. Between…

—p.148 Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 4 The Workers Have No Europe (117) by Cédric Durand
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if the eurozone were to disband

[...] if the eurozone were to disband, the main losers would be Germany,
Austria, and in, even greater proportion, the European tax havens (Lux-
embourg, Netherlands), who would see the deterioration of their agents’
balance sheets. In such a scenario, Portugal and above all Greece would see
a …

—p.144 The Workers Have No Europe (117) by Cédric Durand
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if the eurozone were to disband

[...] if the eurozone were to disband, the main losers would be Germany,
Austria, and in, even greater proportion, the European tax havens (Lux-
embourg, Netherlands), who would see the deterioration of their agents’
balance sheets. In such a scenario, Portugal and above all Greece would see
a …

—p.144 The Workers Have No Europe (117) by Cédric Durand
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unemployment benefits of reasonable duration

[...] while this declaration was symbolic in character, that did not mean that there was any room for ideological concessions. We can clearly see as much from the section on unemployment benefits: “The unemployed have the right to adequate activation support from public employment services to (re)i…

—p.125 The Workers Have No Europe (117) by Cédric Durand
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Germany remains a geopolitical dwarf

Not only is Emmanuel Macron intent on breaking the exceptional resilience of the French welfare state, but he combines this with renewed activism on the international stage. This activism reminds us — in barely subliminal fashion — that Germany remains a geopolitical dwarf compared to its neighbor,…

—p.121 The Workers Have No Europe (117) by Cédric Durand