https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/What-to-do-about-the-Debt-and-the-Euro https://internationalviewpoint.org/What-to-do-about-the-Debt-and-the-Euro 2013-09-20T14:22:23Z text/html en Bibiana Medialdea, Daniel Albarracín, Françisco Louçã, Giorgos Galanis, Mariana Mortágua, Nacho Alvarez, Özlem Onaran, Stavros Tombazos Economy European Union Debt <p>Europe is sinking into crisis and social regression under the pressure of austerity, recession and the strategy of “structural reforms”. This pressure is tightly coordinated at the European level, under the leadership of the German Government, the ECB and the European Commission. There is a broad consensus that these policies are absurd and even “illiterate”: fiscal austerity does not reduce the burden of the debt but generates a spiral of depression, more unemployment and despair among the European peoples.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV464-September-2013-" rel="directory">IV464 - September 2013</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Economy-+" rel="tag">Economy</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-European-Union-+" rel="tag">European Union</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Debt-+" rel="tag">Debt</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Rescue-or-kidnapping https://internationalviewpoint.org/Rescue-or-kidnapping 2012-07-10T16:36:29Z text/html en Bibiana Medialdea, Daniel Albarracín, Manuel Garí, Nacho Alvarez Spanish state Debt <p>On June 29, 2012 the European Council reached an agreement to allow the direct recapitalization of Spanish banks and try to relieve pressure on the sovereign debt markets. This agreement amends some of the conditions initially laid down for the rescue of the Spanish banking sector, and is being presented by the government as a genuine success in Brussels.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV450-July-2012-" rel="directory">IV450 - July 2012</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Spanish-state-+" rel="tag">Spanish state</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Debt-+" rel="tag">Debt</a>