Do you really want the EU to break up? An open letter to Britain's left
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Dear comrades,
Do you really want the European Union to break up?
European Union
Greece quitting the euro?
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European Central Bank officials, and other bankers, are now openly discussing the possibility of Greece quitting the euro.
French and Greek elections show current policy is dead end
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Labour movements across Europe should mobilise to demand that EU leaders drop the drastic cuts programme imposed on Greece.
Four programmes for Euro-crisis
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The election results in France and Greece (6 May), and the forced resignation of militantly neo-liberal Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte (23 April), have thrown economic policy in the eurozone into flux.
Socialists and the Dutch election
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I think Martin Thomas’ take on the political situation in the Netherlands (Solidarity 244) is basically right.
Will a Hollande victory change Euro-economics?
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John Palmer, former European editor of the Guardian, spoke to Solidarity about the background to, possibilities of, and implications of the call by François Hollande, who looks likely to win the presidency of France in the run-off poll on 6 May, for a reshaping of European Union economic policy.
No Keynesians in the Netherlands?
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The Netherlands' right-wing, neo-liberal, fiercely pro-cuts coalition government collapsed over the weekend 21-22 April, unable to agree on measures to reduce the country's budget deficit to the EU's
Blaming EU and Germany
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We need to tackle those with economic power, but that is not the intention of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Left Front.
Economists debate Europe
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Current European Union policies will produce "Great Depression conditions for a decade" in southern Europe, predicts economist Engelbert Stockhammer.
The RMT and the “People's Pledge”
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London’s Tory mayor Boris Johnson has become the latest signatory to the “People’s Pledge”, a campaign which attempts to get politicians to commit to backing a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union.