Comments on: A different kind of Europe http://www.redpepper.org.uk/a-different-kind-of-europe/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Michael Kenny http://www.redpepper.org.uk/a-different-kind-of-europe/#comment-44533 Michael Kenny Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:40:12 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=6460#comment-44533 Some good ideas here. I’ve never understood why people on the left have “ganged up” with Wall St against the euro. The euro’s existence, and now, its survival give the lie to the neo-liberal TINA argument. Economic policy is not based on immutable laws of the universe which to human beings have to conform without being able to exercise more than merely marginal influence on them. People on the left should in fact be cheering the euro on and jumping for joy at its survival! That, I think, is in fact the underlying point of the article. One point on default: I discovered quite by chance recently that ever since Argentina defaulted in 2002, it has been unable to borrow money on the financial markets. (I suspect that fact has been deliberately concealed by the essentailly neo-liberal financial media.) However, that renders any sort of keynsian economic policy more or less impossible and thereby copperfastens neo-liberalism. Default is to be avoided, therefore!
Finally, let me add a “hear, hear” to John Palmer’s comment.

]]> By: John Palmer http://www.redpepper.org.uk/a-different-kind-of-europe/#comment-44205 John Palmer Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:15:38 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=6460#comment-44205 Bravo Trevor. It is a relief to see advocacy of a strategy which calls for collective European Unio n for jobs and sustainable growth action by the left and other progressive forces across the European Union and does not follow the hard right into a nationalist, anti-EU reaction.

John Palmer

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