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		<title>Merkel and the Social Democrats &#8211; a view from France</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/09/23/merkel-and-the-social-democrats-a-view-from-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By François Delapierre The European right has its model: Germany. Angela Merkel emerged reinforced out of Sunday&#8217;s elections. After two terms, she achieved great strides forward for the CDU- CSU coalition. The paradox is that this is a non-exportable German exception. Moreover, austerity policies imposed by the Chancellor have created her own Conservative colleagues great &#8230; <a href="/2013/09/23/merkel-and-the-social-democrats-a-view-from-france/">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=7288&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German elections: Interview with Die Linke</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/09/22/german-elections-interview-with-die-linke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 07:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE RADICAL PRESS / HUMANITE Interview by l&#8217;Humanite newspaper with Wolfgang Gehrcke outgoing Die Linke (Left Party) MP in the Bundestag and spokesman for the party&#8217;s parliamentary group on international matters. One day before the vote on 22 September,  opinion polls showed the party obtaining 8.5% of the vote. A climate of social dissatisfaction &#8230; <a href="/2013/09/22/german-elections-interview-with-die-linke/">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=7278&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning the future of the euro is no longer un-PC</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/08/16/questioning-the-future-of-the-euro-is-no-longer-un-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE RADICAL PRESS / MEMOIRE DES LUTTES By Frédéric Lebaron A debate is raging among economists and French leftist intellectuals on the future of the eurozone and the relevance of a national strategy to exit from the single currency. The conversion of leading French economists to this strategy (of which Frédéric Lordon is the &#8230; <a href="/2013/08/16/questioning-the-future-of-the-euro-is-no-longer-un-pc/">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=7186&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The German elections will not change a thing in the Eurozone</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/08/15/the-german-elections-will-not-change-a-thing-in-the-eurozone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Italian economist Emiliano Brancaccio &#8216;As far as austerity is concerned, even after the September elections Germany will not turn the page. The Germans have benefited from the crisis, and even if the Bundesbank itself has reservations about the general direction of European economic policy, Berlin has no interest in changing course.&#8217; So says &#8230; <a href="/2013/08/15/the-german-elections-will-not-change-a-thing-in-the-eurozone/">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=7175&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal government survives to continue austerity course, President decides</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/21/portugal-government-must-stay-in-place-to-continue-disastrous-austerity-course-president-decides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portugal&#8217;s President Anibal Cavaco Silva on Sunday ruled out a snap election and said he wanted the right wing coalition government to stay in place to end a weeks-old political crisis and to ensure the destructive austerity measures and debt payments under the EU/IMF bailout stayed unchanged. The President had hoped for a &#8216;broader political &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/21/portugal-government-must-stay-in-place-to-continue-disastrous-austerity-course-president-decides/">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=7153&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syriza: We&#8217;ll reverse the Government-Troika job cuts</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/19/syrizas-alternatives-to-job-cuts-and-austerity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Greek government this week passed measures slashing thousands of public sector jobs. Argiris Panagopoulos, correspondent of Il Manifesto newspaper interviewed Panos Lamprou, a leading member of the opposition Syriza party, on this latest round of Troika-inspired austerity, dubbed a ‘mini-memorandum’. Lamprou, a member of the Secretariat to SYRIZA’s Central Committee, also talks about alternative &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/19/syrizas-alternatives-to-job-cuts-and-austerity/">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=7138&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and corruption in Spain: Why Rajoy must go and elections should be called</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/16/democracy-and-corruption-in-spain-why-rajoy-must-go-and-elections-be-called/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only answer to the party financing scandal engulfing prime minister Mariano Rajoy and his right-wing Popular Party is Mr Rajoy’s head and immediate elections says Joan Coscubiela Never before has a social and political conflict presented itself in Spain so clearly. Either the citizens and and institutions rescue democracy or corruption in all its facets, &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/16/democracy-and-corruption-in-spain-why-rajoy-must-go-and-elections-be-called/">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=7085&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unravelling the spin: a guide to corporate rights in the EU-US trade deal</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/13/unravelling-the-spin-a-guide-to-corporate-rights-in-the-eu-us-trade-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week saw the start of the first round of negotiations for a far-reaching transatlantic trade deal. In the face of growing opposition to plans for expanded corporate powers in the proposed pact, the European Commission is trying to dispel concerns with propaganda. See through the rosy PR with Corporate Europe Observatory’s guide to investor-state &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/13/unravelling-the-spin-a-guide-to-corporate-rights-in-the-eu-us-trade-deal/">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=7059&#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>The political battle for full employment</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/01/the-political-battle-for-full-employment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 10:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Juan Torres Lopez 70 years ago a very important Polish economist, Michal Kalecki, published an article (Political aspects of full employment) that I think has a great relevance today, particularly this May Day. Kalecki started out by recognizing that when he wrote that a substantial majority of economists believed that, even in a capitalist &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/01/the-political-battle-for-full-employment/">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=6720&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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