Musik @ Centrifugen

I ett tal på torsdagen i Florens sa José Manuel Barroso att Euron i princip överlevt det värsta av krisen. Det stannar inte där. I ett tal som närmast bekräftar EUs agenda så skräder inte den odemokratiskt valde Barroso med orden om hur fantastiskt allting med EU är. Låt oss börja med det mest patetiska:

…And although we are not yet out of the woods, the existential threat to the Euro is essentially over. The doom-mongers that have been predicting the implosion of the euro have been proven wrong. I believe it is fair to say that there is no longer a perception of the risk that the euro area will fall apart. Investors have realised that when we say that we will do everything possible to safeguard the financial stability and the integrity of the euro we mean it. .

Och här har jag bara en sak att säga till Herr Barroso…

You aint seen nothing yet…

Men så vet man inte var man har Barroso. Det kan handla om omvänd psykologi och stupet kan vara närmare än vi tror.

Här är ett axplock från talet … och han skräder inte med sin agenda (konspirationsteoretiker… förener eder)

The crisis has amplified the urgent need for a stronger cooperation and governance at European level and bold reforms at national level. And the role of the European institutions is not simply to reform themselves but to support reform in Member States, both in the public and the private sector.

This is why our response to the crisis is a comprehensive one addressing its root cause that is a dangerous combination of private imprudence, public indulgence and economic inefficiency. The aim is to have a financial sector at the service of the real economy; government policies promoting competitiveness and sound public finances; and a genuine Economic Monetary Union with a fully equipped toolbox including a banking union and a strengthened social dimension.

To achieve this agenda successfully we have moved a number of key issues from the backroom to the front row. The fact is that a crisis is a terrible time to go through; and it is even more a terrible thing to waste. This is why we are using this crisis as a unique opportunity to promote a long-overdue reform agenda.

… Kommentarer överflödiga!

It can be seen as well in the very good progress made in the European economic governance over the last two years. Indeed, we are steadily dealing with the ‘unfinished business of Maastricht’. We have already significantly moved forward on the way Member States’ economic and budgetary policies are assessed, coordinated and where necessary, revised. And by signing the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance, Member States have legally underlined their commitment to balanced budgets and instated much stronger oversight by the Commission.

Mera EU… ja tack! (ironi)

Since the beginning of the crisis, what is coming to the surface all too often is a feeling of doubt. The crisis has unleashed uncertainties about Europe’s political and institutional capacity and durability.

I do understand the anxieties and even the pessimism of European citizens faced with a fast-changing, interdependent, competitive and unpredictable world. But we have to confront discourses that call for an inward-looking – sometimes nationalist – approach.

Indeed as we are striving to strengthen the foundations of the Euro and improve the sustainability of our economies and thereby restore trust and confidence, a resurgence of populism is precisely corroding trust and confidence.

The point is certainly not to demonize such discourses. The point is to demonstrate that our policies go in the right direction for the long term, that the European alternative is the best one, the one to be trusted most. Of course, this is not easy because the populist discourse manipulates anxieties and pretends to bring simple solutions to complex problems. But we should not shy away from exposing the complexity of the issues we are dealing with.

Om ni inte fattade det där… så handlar det om mera propaganda! (läs även detta…)

Och så kör vi höjdpunkten i längre version…

Let me take just one example. According to some of these discourses, Europe and the Euro are the cause of the problem. Let’s be intellectually honest and let’s spare no effort to explain again and again that while known as the ‘euro crisis’, this is not a crisis of the euro itself. The euro remains a credible, stable and strong currency.

This is an economic and financial crisis in individual countries that impacts on the rest of the euro area. And the financial crisis was also not euro-specific, for it affected countries in the Eurozone and outside, inside the European Union and outside, as the case of Iceland clearly shows.

This crisis was the result of the combination of irresponsibility of a significant part of the financial sector with aggravating unsustainable public debt and the lack of structural competitiveness in some Member States. The monetary union absorbed some of the shocks – as it was intended to do – but was itself severely shaken as a result. It is therefore appropriate to say that while this is not a crisis of the euro area as such and was certainly not created by the European Union, it has posed very specific challenges – economically but also institutionally and politically – to the euro area and implicitly to our European Union.

And although we are not yet out of the woods, the existential threat to the Euro is essentially over. The doom-mongers that have been predicting the implosion of the euro have been proven wrong. I believe it is fair to say that there is no longer a perception of the risk that the euro area will fall apart. Investors have realised that when we say that we will do everything possible to safeguard the financial stability and the integrity of the euro we mean it. .

Mina damer och herrar. Krisen är här för att stanna… mycket mycket länge! Fram med popcorn, chips och lämplig dryck för förtäring och betrakta ”The Greatest Crisis on the Planet Earth”.

Kommer framöver med ett inlägg efter alla kommentarer till tidigare inlägg… Stay tuned

Källor:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-397_en.htm
http://mfc.elmberg.net/2013/02/11/for-eller-emot-eu-om-du-ar-emot-ar-du-malet-for-eus-nya-kampanj-for-att-korrigera-asikter-om-eu/