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		<title>What now for Francois Hollande?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/11/05/what-now-for-francois-hollande/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jacques Sapir The French government has just been forced into two setbacks &#8211; on the retroactive tax on savings accounts and the environmental tax. These two measures have crystallized a latent discontent, and the retreat on the environmental tax is particularly symbolic. This is all happening in seriously depleted political conditions. But the decision to postpone the &#8230; <a href="/2013/11/05/what-now-for-francois-hollande/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7449&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Competitiveness, the neoliberal variant of the myth of Sisyphus</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/09/09/competitiveness-the-neoliberal-variant-of-the-myth-of-sisyphus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 07:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE RADICAL PRESS / MEMOIRE DES LUTTES By Bernard Cassen This fall, in France and probably in other countries, the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, will give rise to much editorial output. This will affirm, in particular, the continued relevance of the questioning &#8230; <a href="/2013/09/09/competitiveness-the-neoliberal-variant-of-the-myth-of-sisyphus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7260&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>While the EU frets over Hungary Italy&#8217;s democracy burns</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/18/while-the-eu-frets-over-hungary-italys-democracy-burns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not just Hungary that the EU needs to tackle on democracy breaches.  My piece on Left Foot Forward blog<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7130&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s centre left bounces back, but will it last?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/06/14/italys-centre-left-bounces-back-but-will-it-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italy&#8217;s Grand Coalition is paying dividends for the centre-left Democratic Party. But will it last? Analysis of last weekend&#8217;s local elections by Tom Gill in the Morning Star <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6945&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Troika&#8217;s Men in Black and the Crime of Organised Money</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to force states to finance themselves at high-interest rates is just a strategy to justify wage control, the privatisation of public services and, ultimately, to enslave peoples, says Juan Torres Lopez Spain has once again received a visit from the so-called Men in Black, the Troika inspectors, coming to elucidate if all is going as &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6874&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain&#8217;s bad banking joke</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/16/spains-bad-banking-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite an infusion of tens of billions of euros funded by citizens now left with huge debts and a downsized welfare state, Spain&#8217;s nationalised banks are providing fewer loans to the credit-starved economy than private lenders. It&#8217;s all a very bad joke, says Vicente Clavero If something clearly reflects the huge bad joke being played &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/16/spains-bad-banking-joke/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6822&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eurozone: A step closer to the precipice</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/04/24/eurozone-a-step-closer-to-the-precipice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Merkel has no choice to pursue austerity in Europe, despite its catastrophic social and economic consequences. And to save Europe, the Eurozone must be ditched. By Jacques Sapir  Thanks to the combined effect of austerity policies, the Eurozone is sinking into crisis. Yet never have debates on economic policy been so intense. Political leaders, both Germany &#8230; <a href="/2013/04/24/eurozone-a-step-closer-to-the-precipice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6655&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal: state agency criticizes &#8220;blind cuts&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/04/15/portugal-state-agency-criticizes-blind-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Council of Public Finances (CPF), a state body that assesses budgetary policies today deplored the &#8220;blind cuts&#8221; to public spending accusing the government of slashing state budgets &#8220;without any great discernment.&#8221; The scathing criticism comes as auditors for the European Commission, the European Central Bank and IMF, known as the troika arrives in Lisbon &#8230; <a href="/2013/04/15/portugal-state-agency-criticizes-blind-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6587&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal&#8217;s unions hail court rejection of pension, wage cuts</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/04/06/portugals-unions-hail-court-rejection-of-pension-wage-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portuguese unions welcomed the decision by the country&#8217;s Constitutional Court to strike down four out of nine austerity measures in this year&#8217;s budget. The court on Friday rejected cuts in pensioners&#8217; and public servants&#8217; holiday bonuses, as well as reductions to sickness leave and unemployment benefits, which formed part of a swinging austerity plan designed &#8230; <a href="/2013/04/06/portugals-unions-hail-court-rejection-of-pension-wage-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6514&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cyprus: European oligarchs must pay</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/03/19/cyprus-european-oligarchs-must-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governments can and should impose a tax on the wealth of the super-rich to help resolve Europe&#8217;s banking crisis, says Attac Cyprus is experiencing a banking crisis of Irish or Icelandic proportions: a bankrupt banking system, which the European Union is demanding taxpayers bail out. Ireland and Iceland took radically different decisions, one favourable to &#8230; <a href="/2013/03/19/cyprus-european-oligarchs-must-pay/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6351&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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