[Deuda-QdQ] interesante articulo: Corporate EUtopia

[Tom Kucharz - Ecologistas en Acción]

Corporate EUtopia - how new economic governance measures challenge democracy

http://www.corporateeurope.org/system/files/files/article/Corporate_EUtopia_final.pdf

19 January 2011

2011 may mark a watershed in the history of the European Union. Using 
the pretext of the “euro crisis”, the European Commission and the 
Council have put forward proposals to give the EU new powers to deal 
with core welfare issues, including social benefits and wages, under a 
new technocratic procedure –  hard (if not impossible) to track, let 
alone influence by those who stand to lose out. The proposals embody a 
corporate social and economic agenda which, if enacted, will constitute 
a “silent revolution” imposed from above, with no real democratic debate 
or popular participation.The proposed changes – which involve a series 
of proposed rules on ‘economic governance’ – have been welcomed by the 
EU’s key big business lobby groups, which see some of their traditional 
key lobby demands reflected in the changes. In particular, a new 
procedure to “correct macroeconomic imbalances” will break new ground, 
allowing decisions to be made at the EU-level on wage levels and 
social-service budgets for individual member states. The business lobby 
hopes that the new rules will complement the business friendly EU 2020 
Strategy with strong enforcement measures.Despite the issues at stake, 
this “silent revolution” has so far received too little attention from a 
wider audience. There is an urgent need for a democratic debate 
throughout the EU, in particular on alternatives to the austere 
neoliberal model of ‘economic governance’ that is now being pushed by 
the Commission and the Council. And it will require a broad-based social 
struggle to make the alternatives a reality.

Read the full article here: 
http://www.corporateeurope.org/system/files/files/article/Corporate_EUtopia_final.pdf

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