EU summit: Another comes Monetary Fund?
The imperialist bloc negotiates what proposals it will present at the next meeting in Brussels. German and French ministers will meet next 19 June at Meseberg Palace, located in Berlin, to agree on a joint position to present to its partners at the summit that will be held on the days 28 Y 29 of June.
On the basis that they agree to strengthen the bloc, They have been expressing some nuances in relation to the reform plan that they consider necessary for the eurozone.
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, suggests that the only mechanisms it would accept would be mutual aid between euro countries, with a general EU budget for investments and a new system of loans to countries in crisis. The negotiation of the aforementioned budget would have to be closed before the elections to the European Parliament of 2019.
The current European Stability Mechanism (FELLOW) that finances the debt of countries in crisis, would be expanded with a European Monetary Fund (FME), that would provide economic relief in exchange for the adoption of strict adjustment and supervision measures. That is, a new IMF.
Merkel argues that Germans do not want to end up paying more taxes due to the imbalances caused by southern European governments, when they refuse to make cuts. He also suggests that “Solidarity between eurozone partners should not lead to a union of debts”.
They are negotiating with French President Emmanuel Macron and his proposal for a supposed “Refoundation of Europe”.
The references of the German prime minister, that are based on stirring up the “ghost” of the Greek crisis, They should consider other actors and situations.
The new right-wing Italian government is “Eurosceptic”, verbally rejects German austerity measures. M. Rajoy fell in Spain and the eurozone still has to manage Great Britain's departure from Brexit. Adding to the sources of conflict is the intention of Yankee President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on European exports of steel and aluminum..
Insensitivity towards immigrants
Another important issue is the one that refers to immigration policy., on which Merkel has already announced that it will be very difficult to reach an agreement at the Summit.
From asylum to one million applicants in the year 2015, “The sensitive” Merkel believes that immigrants only make her lose votes, that in the elections of September 2017 They turned to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
For these reasons, it proposes common asylum standards, European border police and a pan-European Migration Agency to assess asylum applications. For countries that refuse to accept refugees, like Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, suggests that they should compensate for this rejection with some type of contributions.
“We were few and the grandmother gave birth”
The IMF was the direct cause of economic and social catastrophes in all Latin American countries., in Greece, in Eastern Europe, There are almost no people in the world that have not suffered their calamities. The universal translation of its acronym is adjustment and repression. And what do the “advanced democracies” want to do?? Create a new usurer, but clearly European, to continue liquidating historical conquests of the working class. We would have to “receive” them” with large mobilizations of repudiation.
The framework in which the Summit of the imperialist bloc will be held presents some dark clouds in which political imbalances are combined with economic ones.. But, they are getting closer positions.
The truth is that neither Merkel nor Macron will propose positive measures for the European working people.. No solutions favorable to the great majorities will emerge from that meeting., nor a firm rejection of the curtailment of democratic freedoms by the Spanish State, nor the demand for freedom of the pro-independence political prisoners, much less the recognition of the right to self-determination of the Catalan people. Nor can they be expected to put respect for the rights of immigrants and refugees first., permanently trampled by capitalist brutality, ignorant of the most basic human rights.
The only thing that can be expected from the meeting between bourgeois and pro-imperialist governments, is that they continue to favor large companies, banks and loan sharks, while they continue adjusting.
