In order to support the workshop preparation, we should like to continue our information efforts, as in our text from 11.9., and recommend reading the speech of M. Barroso “State of the Union Address 2013” http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-684_en.htm for our discussion. We also recommend L. Andors “Reconstruction in Europe”http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/andor/index_en.htm as well as K. De Gucht’s “Working together for Growth through Free Trade” http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-708_en.htm

Reading theses – quite different texts – will not improve our general mood, but it will help a lot in understanding problems.

Please see the presentation of our paper “Alternative European Economic Policy, Industrial Policy, and Socio-ecological Reconversion” which we put on this blog on 7.9.2013. Please click her

The following text should support the discussion on crisis and finacialisation in connection with production and consumption pattern.

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We are convinced that, for the preparation of our discussions it would be helpful to deal with official EU documents. In this connection we especially want to highlight the military and war dimension. So please see especially: European Commission, Communication from the Commission, Towards a more competitive and efficient defence and security sector … please click here

Please see the blog for the 2. EU Experts’s discussion on debt issues.

The following text was written for the next discussion of the EuroMemo Group. It is put on the blog to promote the preparation of the debate on “production and consumption pattern” on 5.10..  Please click here 

The New York Monthly Review established by Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman in 1949 represents a unique venture in disseminating Marxist ideas in a way that has been informed by serious economic analysis. In particular it has benefited from the close relationship that Paul Sweezy had with his PhD supervisor at Harvard, Joseph Schumpeter; Sweezy’s own personal knowledge of finance through his father,

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