Full Employment with Good Work, Strong Public Services, and International Cooperation Democratic Alternatives to Poverty and Precariousness in Europe

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eng Full Employment with Good Work, Strong Public Services, and
International Cooperation
Democratic Alternatives to Poverty and Precariousness in Europe
spa Pleno Empleo con trabajo digno, Servicios Públicos potentes y Cooperación Internacional
Alternativas democráticas a la pobreza y a la precariedad en Europa
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This Memorandum was formulated on the basis of discussions at the 13th workshop of the working group "European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy” (EuroMemorandum Group) on September 21 - 23, 2007 in Brussels.

The text is available in English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian and Spanish.
Summary
Introduction

1. Enhanced risks, imbalances and inequalities - Current economic and social problems
1.1. Financial crisis - More to come?
1.2. Low wages, precarious jobs, political complacency - Prospects for macro-economic decline
1.3. Persistent poverty amidst exploding profits - Inequality on the rise
1.4. Threats of dependence and catastrophe - Energy and climate change in the EU
1.5. Macroeconomic imbalances in the world economy

2. Undermining the European Social Model - Critique of economic and social policies
2.1. The "Reform Treaty” - The EU elites’ counter-reform under a new cover
2.2. Service directive through the backdoor - The deregulatory obsession continues
2.3. "Flexicurity” - Labour market reform with a neo-liberal bias
2.4. Against European interests and fairness - Too restrictive immigration policy
2.5. Global Europe - Threatening ambitions
2.6. Too little action behind the rhetoric - Climate and energy policies

3. Stability, solidarity and cooperation - Alternatives for economic and social policies
3.1. Limits for speculation and financial investor pressure - Policies against financial crises
3.2. Policies for full employment, solidarity and sustainability
3.2.1. Alternative to the dominance of markets - Strong and democratic public services
3.2.2. More active use of macroeconomic policy tools
3.2.3. End "flexploitation” - Promote full employment with "good work”
3.2.4. Minimum standards and European transfers - Anti-poverty policy
3.2.5. Focus on energy saving and renewables - Climate and energy policies
3.3. Fair trade, development aid and peaceful relations - Global perspectives for the EU
3.4. A democratic constitution for the EU
Soucer: EuroMemo
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ME_BD_0239
euromemorandum_eng_2007.pdf
eeuromemorandum_spa_2007.pdf
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Ereiten Kultur Zerbitzuak S.L.
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Ekonomia Kritikoa