Re: [CrashList] Re: Human costs of "good business climate" (Live from Porto!)

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From: Mark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [CrashList] Re: Human costs of "good business climate" (Live
from Porto!)


> Joco Paulo Monteiro wrote:
> >> the story is even more exemplary in terms of
> > contemporary
> > politico-ideological trends.
>
> Joco, thanks for this. It's a comment on my own shameful ignorance of
> Portugese history that I hadn't realised just how much Salazar's regime
had
> managed to acquire this kind of horrible after-life; I had thought that
> 'bourgeois renewal', under the twin signs of Brussels and the Portugese
social
> revolution,  had progressed further; but evidently this is wrong.
> There is also to my mind an enduring question about the extent to which
the EU
> fosters renewal and reform, and the extent to which it does the opposite
and
> merely entrenches and hyperdevelops corruption, particularly it seems in
the
> Mediterranean rimland. I'm genuinely puzzled about this. There is an
almost
> historically-invisible but crucial contest or dialectic going on between
the
> sanitary ambitions of northern European capital, and the age-old reality
of
> the Mezzogiorno, the Adriatic and the Hispano-Portugese isthmus, a
dialectic
> now also overlain by irredentism in Spain, climate change and
desertification,
> and pulses of immigration from northern Africa and elsewhere. It would be
> goood to reconceptualise the European dynamic in these core-periphery
terms,
> and to factor in the new entrants to the EU from northern Europe, which
share
> many of the same symptomata: Poland, Hungary etc.
>
> Mark
>
>
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