Comments on: Europe: The cracks are beginning to show https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/ because facts really should be sacred Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:46:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Chris Rogers https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95719 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:27:39 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95719 In reply to bevin.

Wolfgang Streeck’s full academic paper is available here, rather than behind a NLR paywall – an excellent paper for those who understand that you can only have a radical, transformative government outside of the confines of the EU: https://wolfgangstreeck.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/wolfgang-streeck-progressive-regression-nlr-118-july-august-20191.pdf

]]> By: Chris Rogers https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95717 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:06:15 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95717 In reply to bevin.

Many thanks for reminding me to read Streek’s article in New Left Review, which has by-passed me due to travelling for a week.

]]> By: vexarb https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95692 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:56:41 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95692 Cut’n’Paste from Saker Vineyard:

“Germany’s largest bank is about to belly up and inundate the Western banking system with the collapse of its derivatives load. It is indeed telling just how little news coverage this quiet subsidence is getting. The capitalist media just can’t face the fact and has to stay in denial. It is of telling interest to me that the corrupt capitalist who led this German mega bank into suicide territory resigned, entered politics, and is now the UK minister of Finance under Boris Piffle Johnson”

]]> By: Francis Lee https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95484 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:57:36 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95484 In reply to BigB.

”(have you read Rasmus’ “Central Bankers at the End of their Ropes” Yep, and ”The Looting of Greece”. Very similar to Nomi Prins, ”Collusion” very good insider view of Finance and Central Banking.

]]> By: Seamus Padraig https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95457 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:52:48 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95457 In reply to falcemartello.

Deus vult!

]]> By: falcemartello https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95432 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:00:34 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95432 Dedollarization a slow and inevitable end. How we get there is another matter.
Macron and co were quite happy to go along the Atlanticist pathway from Giorgia to Syria and beyond but I digress .
Post Scriptum: Fingers crossed we do not start WW4 cuause WW3 since 9/11 has been one big kluster fuck let alone the millions of lives that perished.
Docius in Fundem: The end is nigh and THEY KNOW IT.
In Shah Allah If God willing Se Dio vuole

]]> By: andyoldlabour https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95410 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:59:39 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95410 In reply to Seamus Padraig.

Seamus, everything you said regarding neo-liberalism, globalism and PC madness, is exactly what ordinary people, particularly the poor and the middle class who are starting to see wage stagnation, are absolutely sick of. Most people want a return to basics, sensible politics based on realistic economic policy, improvments to infrastructure, public services, particularly education and health.
What they don’t want to see, is virtue signalling, placing minority interests above the concerns of the majority, and they certainly do not want to see their country flooded with immigrants who have no intention of integrating and who are from a totally different culture.
If someone decides to live in the UK, then I don’t care which country they come from as long as, they pay their way, they speak our language and they try to integrate. I do not want immigrants trying to change the UK into becoming more like their country.

]]> By: bevin https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95322 Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:56:37 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95322 An excellent article.
Here, thanks to links at MoA, from the New Left Review is another:
PROGRESSIVE REGRESSION Metamorphoses of European Social Policy (pdf) – Wolfgang Streek – new left review.
This footnote sums up the current nature of the EU and its Four Freedoms:
29 “A recent case involved a private nursing home for the elderly suing the German
Bundesland of Lower Saxony over its financial assistance to non-profit nursing
homes. Interestingly, the issue is not whether such assistance is allowed under the
treaties—it no longer is—but only whether it had been granted sufficiently long ago
that it would be protected under a grandfather clause.”

]]> By: Frank Speaker https://off-guardian.org/2019/09/21/europe-the-cracks-are-beginning-to-show/#comment-95303 Sun, 22 Sep 2019 17:01:47 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=62405#comment-95303 A nice and concise overview of some key events, but hardly a compelling argument for the end of the EU, not least it’s all about NATO.

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