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News / 04 Jul 2012

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European summit: Only banks are victorious

Heads of state of our countries declare they are back from the EU summit with victories for their people, and inflections from Chancellor Merkel, Mario Draghi or Jean-Claude Junker. They say...

Heads of state of our countries declare they are back from the EU summit with victories for their people, and inflections from Chancellor Merkel, Mario Draghi or Jean-Claude Junker. They say they have "saved Europe" for the 19th time since the crisis began. Francois Hollande even say that Europe is "reoriented" in the right direction. This is misleading advertising .

The fiscal pact is intact. The "renegotiation" not happened and the growth pact promoted by Francois Hollande has no legal value. Whether direct or indirect, funded by the MES or not, all the so-called "financial aid" will once again be paid by European citizens, through cuts and attacks on workers' rights. All the measures adopted in the name of solidarity with Italy and Spain are only measures of massive socialization of losses. This is also a new loss of the peoples sovereignty and the decline of parliamentary democracy.
The truth is: the negotiations in the liberal EU are at 27, but it is always the banks who win. We call on all left people and MPs, to take action to prevent the ratification of this fatal pact in our countries.Only a refoundation of the EU can solve the crisis. We will repeat it as necessary: austerity leads to recession. There will be no growth in this framework. We propose an alternative:

  • A european solution for the existing, unsustainable public debts,which will promote their decisive reduction.
  • Change the role and tasks of the ECB to encourage job creation and training, not speculators.
  • Create a new institution: a European public bank, funded by the ECB and the financial transaction tax, which funds would be used exclusively to promote public investment in public services and sustainable industrial development
  •   Harmonize workers' rights and all social rights on the highest level

Pierre Laurent , National Secretary of the French Communist Party (France), President of the Party of European Left,
Paolo Ferrero
, National Secretary of Rifondazione Communista (Italy),
Alexis Tsipras , President of Syriza, Vice-President of the EL (Greece) ,
Cayo Lara,
spokesman for Izquierda unida (Spain),
Jose-Luis Centella
, General secretary of Communist Party of Spain (Spain),
Katja Kipping & Bernd Riexinger , Co-chairpersons of Die Linke (Germany),
Olga Athaniti, member of the executive secretariat of AKOA (Greece) ,
Attila Vajnai,
President of the workers' party 2006 (Hungary),
Norberto Crivelli , President of the Swiss workers' party (Suisse),
Franscisco Louçà , coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal),
Yrjö Hakanen , chairman of the Communist Party of
Finland (Finland),
Milan Neubert , President of the Party of Democratic Socialism (Czech Republic),
Fabienne Lentz  and David Wagner , spokespersons déi Lénk (Luxembourg),
Constantin Rotaru , President of the Socialist Alliance Party (Romania).

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