Writing treaties while Europe burns
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On 30 January, European Union leaders met in Brussels to fix the new “budget discipline” treaty decided on 9 December.
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Eurozone: 9 December solved nothing
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Four developments in mid-January confirm that the 9 December Euro-summit came nowhere near staving off the twin credit crises plaguing European states and banks.
Socialists and Europe
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1. The outdatedness of the nation-state in Europe, and the lessons of World War One
Europe: cuts or democracy?
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On 6 January, the elected but obscure European Parliament intervened into the discussions on the new treaty under discussion after the 9 December euro-summit to ask that it include a “roadmap” towards
The main enemy is...Clegg
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Here’s a Christmas puzzle for Solidarity readers. Who is most confused and disoriented by David Cameron’s refusal to sign up for EU fiscal unity — the Daily Express and Mail or the Morning Star?
For a united Europe!
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The Morning Star, the paper associated with the Communist Party of Britain, carried a naively self-revealing editorial on 9 December: “There’s a huge feeling of guilt and confusion when a leader writer in the Morning Star feels even a momentary twinge of fellow feeling with chief speculators’ stooge David Cameron...”
For a democratic Europe!
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Europe is in crisis. And all the decisions about the crisis are being taken not by the people tormented, baffled, and troubled by it, but by a tiny elite of government leaders.
Les socialistes et l'Europe
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Les nations n'ont pas toujours existé. En Europe, la croissance du commerce a créé des unités avec une langue commune, une culture, des lois, un système fiscal et des communications, les États-nations qui se sont développés entre les 16e et 19e siècles.
Euro-leaders set course for worse crisis
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By Martin Thomas
David Cameron's veto, on 9 December, of the plan for a new economic treaty backed by all 26 other European Union governments, may shake British politics and Britain's future relations with the EU. The 9 December summit itself may shake more. The 26 adopted a plan which has little chance of smoothing the financial crisis shaking the eurozone, and may make it worse.
France: the banks, the parties and the debt
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By Yvan Lemaitre (NPA)
The question of debt is at the heart of the [presidential] election campaign. How is it analysed and developed by the different candidates?