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Recent events in
Cyprus, give us an even clearer picture of which appears to be driven
things so far in eurozone, but also the whole of Europe in general.
It is more than
clear, that the policies of memorandum are leading to a dead end, and
this is clear not only from the daily life of citizens in countries
that adopted memorandum terms, not only from the financial data of
these countries and bleak predictions particularly for growth and
unemployment, but also, by statements from executives or former
executives of IMF (Roumeliotis-Blanchard), which of course were made
purely for distraction purposes, and by numerous analyses of many
economists in Greece and abroad. This is also clear, from the
destruction that these policies brought, under the pressure of IMF,
in any area applied in the past.
The dogmatic adherence on these destructive policies,
shows that the real goal is to impose certain conditions in favor of
a dominant economic oligarchy. With its starring puppets Merkel and
Schäuble, this financial oligarchy, imposes “by fire and sword”
these conditions in heavily indebted countries, through a peculiar
economic war. Although we must be wary about the results of the
polls, the recent poll in Germany gave a big relief to Merkel, and
makes things easier, in order to continue the implementation of
harsh austerity policies on indebted eurozone periphery. The
financial oligarchy rushes to launch a violent federalization of
Europe, based on purely neoliberal standards.
Let's not forget that, just about five months ago,
European officials were about to supposedly decide to secure the
proposal of Monty for guaranteeing the bank deposits, but the events
in Cyprus just show that this financial oligarchy rushes to use any
mean, eliminating any condition, to cut any other source of funding
for the eurozone member-states, which will fall one by one into the
trap of the European Central Bank. This rather 'clumsy' imposition of
destructive policies, which removes all pretences, is an indication
that the economic and political elites attempt to prevent potential
subversion of their projects.
Thus, the neoliberal European economic empire which is
about to arise, must give something to buy time, which is to throw
some money through the back door with specific funding programms, to
give the illusion of rebooting the “precious” and “desirable”
development and real economy. Another example of "payoff"
is the allowances-tricks, such as that recently announced for
independent small-medium business owners who lost their businesses in
Greece, and the amounts announced by the European Investment Bank for
the small-medium business sector up to 2015, which, in essence, are
buying time for the neoliberal plan to be completed, preventing any
“unpredictable facts” from undesirable governments or
“uncontrolled” massive indignant citizens, at the same time the
neoliberal policies are killing small-medium businesses and help
multinational corporations. The fully controlled big media are
coordinated in this direction, presenting news of business deals -
type, which will supposedly help the country to get out of the crisis
and bring growth and jobs, which they never come.
Recently, European Central Bank took over the reins of
propaganda, making deliberately coarse comparisons by announcing
through its own study that, for example, citizens of the Republic of
Cyprus is on average more than three times richer than Germans, or
that, of the countries which have joined in bailout programs, only
citizens in Greece and Portugal held less wealth than countries with
AAA, while citizens in Spain and Italy are significantly richer. The
ECB through this study, not only attempts to prevent convergence and
consensus among all peoples of the eurozone against austerity
policies, but also "points" quite clearly the next possible
targets, Italy and Spain, which are not yet entirely dependent on the
ECB.
Regarding Germany, as Frankfurt is the financial center
of gravity of the eurozone, bankers are using the German leadership,
and they begin to fully control the flow of money across the eurozone
and thus enforce the desired policies in favor of big capital.
The German political class is ready to give “earth and
water” to the German economic elite in order to avoid the latter to
emigrate permanently to other markets with very cheap labor. Since,
however, at least for the moment, it is impossible to throw salaries
in Chinese or Indian levels, politicians must give something more.
Expensive gifts are oil, natural gas and land, at excruciating prices
in all countries that have not yet been privatized or remain
unexploited, such as Greece. Sellout in other parts of eurozone,
since everything in Germany has been sold and there are no fields of oil
and natural gas. If someone wants to see an example, could only have
to take a look at the relatively recent past and how former West
Germany behaved against former East Germany, with the fast and
massive privatizations and companies that passed into the hands of
the West Germany's economic elite under excruciating prices. German
oligarchs are organizing a new "Treuhand" throughout
Europe. Other multinationals will follow to take advantage, and
preparing for big party on potential oil and natural gas fields.
Maybe this explains the absence of France in recent decisions on
Cyprus and the... nap of Moscovici in recent Eurogroup.
The destruction of welfare state is another enticing
gift to financial oligarchy, marking the “relief” from “annoying”
additional taxes, but gives also the signal for full privatization of
health and education sectors with great opportunities for “big
business”. In fact, the U.S. and Europe are engaged in a
competitive race on who will give more to large corporations and
banks. This explains the recent statement by the U.S. Secretary of
Treasury, speaking about growth through consumption, criticizing
indirectly the austerity policies in Europe, and the expected
reaction of Schaeuble, as the U.S. rely heavily on consuming power,
and they do not want for the moment to cut wages and labor rights in
extent. They see that Europe is moving rapidly to the degradation of
welfare state and dissolution of labor rights, which means that it
will quickly become more "attractive", even for big
companies based in their territory.
Bilingualism of larger media is also characteristic,
even in Greece, regarding Merkel and Schäuble, as on the one hand
are presented as a representative sample of German intransigence,
insisting on the destructive policies of austerity and cuts and
putting at risk the cohesion or even the survival of eurozone, with
decisions such as those for the “haircut” of deposits in Cyprus,
and on the other hand, another picture begins to propagate, that,
which displays them nearly as pioneers of purge against the "sinner"
tax havens, among other things. Perhaps this is an explanation for
their high rates in recent polls, if we should believe in them of
course.
Summarizing, we could say that in order to consolidate
the neoliberal European economic empire, German oligarchs promote
another "haircut" of multiple dimensions across Europe.
They proceed into a violent cut of salaries and pensions, trying to
equalize them in a first phase with those of countries of the former
Eastern bloc, and disolving the welfare state. Federalism means
however, that the same policies will be applied totally, definately
and very soon, also against German citizens and workers.
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