Paul, I understand your reply as agreement that none of these four purposes of the Thessaloniki programme are being blocked permanently.
But we disagree about the negotiating outcome. It was not the Thessaloniki programme which Varoufakis and Tsipras had to negotiate with the Eurogroup, but it were the infamous Memoranda of Understanding signed by the previous Greek governments which they had to renegotiate (as stated by J. Galbraith in his article). If you compare Schaeuble's starting point (and that of the Eurogroup as well) to the Eurogroup statement on Greece (Feb 24, 2015) and Varoufakis' "letter of intent" you see that the Greek government did not obey the commands of the European High Commissioners but opened up a political space for the implementation of a policy of anti-austerity in the coming years. By the way, the leader of the opposition in the German federal parliament did a good job in today's debate on the Greek debt interim agreement. He confronted Schaeuble and the neoliberal German coalition government of Conservatives and Social Democrats with the disastrous results of their policy within the last decade and he stated the support of the German Left Party for Syriza's policy as an impetus for a social renewal of Europe. Hinrich Documents: Schaeuble's official non-paper: "Main building blocks for Eurogroup outline on Greece" http://paperzz.com/doc/3593576/41-2015-breg Greek Debt Interim Agreement (main documents, English and German) http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/18/040/1804079.pdf Gregor Gysi's (German Left Party, leader of the opposition) speech in response to Schaeuble's speech on the debt agreement: http://dbtg.tv/fvid/4664842 Paul Zarembka wrote:: > > Hinrich, > > Of those 4 points, confronting the humanitarian crisis, restarting the > economy, and regaining employment are anti-austerity aspects I was talking > about. Galbraith does not deal with the agreement of the past days regarding > any of these aspects except the humanitarian crisis, which he evaluates > favorably. > > To ignore the other aspects of anti-austerity, namely, restarting the economy > and regaining employment, (deepening democracy and tax justice are means, not > ends), is what I mean his support amounting to a apology for the government > negotiating outcome. To be 'critical' in the good sense of the word regarding > the outcome for anti-austerity in its full range is to be objective and > non-apologetic. > > Paul Zarembka > > > > > > > Syriza run its campaign on these four pillars: > > > > 1st: Confronting the humanitarian crisis > > 2nd: Restarting the economy and promoting tax justice > > 3rd: Regaining employment > > 4th: Transforming the political system to deepen democracy > > > > > > http://www.syriza.gr/article/id/59907/SYRIZA---THE-THESSALONIKI-PROGRAMME.html#.VO8j5I6LKT0 > > > > Which of these goals are permanently blocked by the prelimanary outcome > > of the > > the Eurogroup-Greek government negotiations? > > > > What do you mean by "apology"? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
