Catherine Samary - The European Crisis within a multidimensional systemic crisis
Channel: Inštitut za delavske študije
Date: 27/04/2012

The European Economic Community (EEC), which became in 1992 the European Union (EU), shares the main phases of evolution and crisis with the capitalist world-system. Nevertheless, it has its own specific political issues, internal conflicts, institutional features and contradictions, especially since the German unification, which will be analysed in the light of the ongoing crisis. Contrary to what dominant discourses claim, we will argue that this crisis is not a "debt crisis". It is the second phase of a broader systemic crisis that began in 2007 in the US with multi-dimensional and international extension; but it is also the crisis of the kind of "European construction" which emerged from a former crisis. "Debt" is therefore a tool for a new neoliberal social offensive reinforcing a kind of regressive European integration. Alternatives and choices do exist. We will discuss them.

Catherine Samary is a professor of Economy at the Université Paris Dauphine, a researcher at the Institut d'Etudes européennes, Université Paris 8, and at the International Institute for Research and Education Amsterdam, and a member of ATTAC. http://csamary.free.fr

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Catherine Samary:
Evropska kriza v luči večdimenzionalne sistemske krize

Evropska gospodarska skupnost (EGS), ki se je leta 1992 preimenovala v Evropsko unijo (EU), pozna iste glavne faze razvoja in krize kakor kapitalistični svetovni-sistem v celoti. Kljub temu pa ima svoja lastna politična vprašanja, notranje konflikte, institucionalne značilnosti in protislovja, zlasti po združitvi Nemčije, ki jih bomo obravnavali v luči trenutne krize. V nasprotju s tem, kar zatrjujejo vladajoči diskurzi, bomo pokazali, da ta kriza ni »dolžniška kriza«. Ta kriza je druga faza širše sistemske krize, ki se je začela leta 2007 v ZDA in ki ima večdimenzionalni in mednarodni razpon; obenem pa je ta kriza tudi kriza »evropske konstrukcije«, ki se je razvila kot odgovor na prejšnjo krizo. »Dolg« je torej orodje za novo neoliberalno družbeno ofenzivo, ki nam vsiljuje nekakšno regresivno evropsko integracijo. Alternative in izbire obstajajo -- in o njih bomo razpravljali.

Catherine Samary je profesorica ekonomije na Univerzi Paris Dauphine, raziskovalka na Inštitutu za evropske študije Univerze Paris 8, sodelavka Mednarodnega inštituta za raziskave in izobraževanje v Amsterdamu in članica ATTAC-a. http://csamary.free.fr

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