Critics of the German -
led austerity policies have called for boycotts of German products and have suggested that Ms. Merkel and Mr. Schäuble had unjustifiably humiliated Greece and its prime minister, Alexis Tsipras.
Not exact matches
Tsipras argued that the
austerity «belttightening
policy» imposed by Berlin and Brussels represents «a path that
leads nowhere.»
It is largely accepted that these programs
lead to systemic macroeconomic instability across the continent and that these
policies drove countries of the global south into «debt crisis,
austerity, decline and conflict» (Bond) and «acute material scarcity» (Mbembe).
Nevertheless, even the generalised Corbyn Leadership bid «outline
policy aims» 0f both 2015 and now, expose that (despite the entirely bogus faux Leftist rhetoric of the utterly cynical Owen Smith campaign) the PLP majority, AND the majority of
Austerity implementing Labour councillors can not and will, not fall in line with the Corbyn -
led Party's Left
policy direction.
The cost of neglecting this dimension through
austerity policies and the democratic deficit in the EU, has
led to the rise of the far right in Europe.