Het satirisch blad Titanic
Wint eindelijk het gezond verstand en krijgt men in Europa oog voor een reële en positieve economische politiek? Is het nu over met de bezuinigingswoede van Ferkelchen Merkel en haar apocalyptische neoliberale aanhang in Europa? Ik wil het graag hopen. Het conservatieve economieblad The Economist laat ook al alternatieve geluiden horen. Jolande Sap heeft zich intussen zwaar gecompromitteerd. Als er bezuinigd moet worden in Nederland dan moet dat op de aankoop en subsidiëring van de Joint Strike Fighter, het voeren van militaire acties in het buitenland en de hypotheekrenteaftrek.
Economist: "For months, if not years, complaints have grown that the euro-zone's austerity-first approach to the crisis is somewhere between inadequate and counterproductive. That message now seems to be winning converts across Europe. Euro-zone leaders are increasingly acknowledging the need for a growth agenda, and the success of François Hollande in the first round of the French election is being hailed as a decisive blow against austerity. Perhaps predictably, the pushback is on.
The point is that the economy that matters is that of the euro zone as a whole. And when one steps back and looks at the dynamics in play, it becomes clear that the robotic push for national-level austerity across the euro zone is undermining integration and thereby exacerbating the crisis.
Now of course, long-run euro-zone success depends on institutions that limit the impact of moral hazard on national budgets. No part of that sentence implies that Spain must embrace crash austerity now. Quite the opposite; crash austerity now is the best way to ensure that in the long run, the euro zone is dead."