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Europe in Crisis: A Critique of the EU’s Failure to Respond - Dedicated to the memory of Jörg Huffschmid (1940-2009), Founder and guiding spirit of the EuroMemorandum Group This Memorandum was formulated on the basis of discussions at the 15th workshop of ‘European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy’ (EuroMemorandum Group) on 25-27 September 2009 in Berlin, Germany. It is based on written contributions from Wlodzimierz Dymarski, Trevor Evans, Miren Etxezarreta, David Flacher, Marica Frangakis, John Grahl, Mahmood Messkoub, Catherine Sifakis, Diana Wehlau and Frieder Otto Wolf. We have dedicated the EuroMemorandum 2009/10 to the memory of Jörg Huffschmid. The text is available in English, French, German, Greek, and Spanish. Source: EuroMemo Group
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This Memorandum was formulated on the basis of discussions at the 14th workshop of the working group ‘European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy’ (EuroMemorandum Group) on 26-28 September 2008 in Brussels. It is based on contributions from Elmar Altvater, Stephanie Blankenburg, Trevor Evans, Marica Frangakis, Jörg Huffschmid, Anne Karrass, Florence Palpacuer, Diana Wehlau and Frieder Otto Wolf. The text is available in English, German, Greek, Slovenian and Spanish. Summary Introduction 1. Europe under pressure: Financial meltdown and economic recession 1.1 The financial meltdown: Background, perspectives and impact Box 1: The role of corporate limited liability in the current financial crisis 1.2 Oncoming recession: The macroeconomic situation 1.3 Polarisation and precarisation; poverty and wealth: The social situation 1.4 Alarming developments pushed to the background: The ecological situation 2. Promotion of crises: Critique of European policies 2.1 The disaster of financial market policies Box 2: Mortgages - An embarassing initiative 2.2 The counterproductive macro-regime Box 3: Alarming decisions by the European Court of Justice Box 4: Patients' rights in cross-border healthcare: 'Bolkestein' through the backdoor 2.3 Dismantling of workers rights through labour market policy 2.5 Continuing weaknes of climate and energy policies 3. Proposals for alternatives to finance-driven capitalism 3.1 Democratic transformation of European finance 3.2 Excursion: Reforming Governance in Transnational Corporations (TNCs) 3.3 A new macro-regime for full employment, social inclusion and security 3.4 A new regime on energy and climate Soucer: EuroMemo