General Director, European Trade Union Institute
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Formerly www.imk-boeckler.de
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General Director, European Trade Union Institute
@etui.bsky.social
Formerly www.imk-boeckler.de
EU economic governance, comparative political economy, European integration, socio-ecological transition, wage bargaining
Deutschland-Versteher
Vietnam
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That Rubio received a standing ovation & gushing praise shows how ill served Europe is by its transatlantic-oriented foreign policy elite network
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Somebody picked this book up today at the bookshop ...
but then got distracted by the games and didn't make it to the checkout.
😜
Here is why:
Lucas Guttenberg is rightly sceptical about what I call 👆 a "patchwork rug" : replacing a fragmented single market "by inaction" with one fragmented "by design",
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Here is why:
Not immediately, ofc, but EU debt could gradually rise to a much higher share of GDP, backed by ECB, no problem.
Although here the point was more about creating EU-level debt (eurobonds), which could actually mean being more stringent about national-level debt.
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However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
In US at least, the centre left seems bad at politics rather than economics.
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However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
"The global market, in fact, is increasingly afraid of the American dollar. It's looking for alternatives. Let's offer it European debt."
#Eurobonds
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"The global market, in fact, is increasingly afraid of the American dollar. It's looking for alternatives. Let's offer it European debt."
But I understand the sentiment too. The rules of the game need to be changed to limit their power and redistribute resources.
A lot of hard pushback on targeted buy-European because it would reduce European competitiveness and product quality.
Reality, created by China, would disagree.
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A lot of hard pushback on targeted buy-European because it would reduce European competitiveness and product quality.
Reality, created by China, would disagree.
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And boots only need to be deployed where suppressing, say, 10% of the vote for Democrats can tip the result.
A couple of ostentatious ICE people/vehicles (or impersonators) outside a polling station is cheap and likely effective.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/saqz
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www.politico.eu/article/port...
More broadly, in EU countries and at EU level, the democratic forces need to engage with each other pragmatically to craft policy solutions that deliver for citizens. Gridlock (France) and delay (EP vote on Mercosur) just benefit the far-right.
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