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“Is Europe on the brink of a popular uprising? recently wondered the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
However, the statistics bear witness to the end of the "Great Recession": the Spanish economy should grow by 0,7% next year, Ireland is about to exit its bailout plan and according to forecasts, the Greek, Italian and Portuguese economies are expected to return to growth from next year. But the gap between government figures and the daily reality of many people in Europe's periphery, facing poverty and unemployment, fuels populism, political radicalization and anti-European sentiment.
According to the Raw Story website :
- More than one in four Spaniards is still officially unemployed, and the unemployment rate is not expected to fall before 2015, according to the European Commission.
- In Ireland and Portugal, we still deplore negative migration flows. Workers emigrate to seek work abroad.
- Portugal is expected to see 0,8% growth in 2014, and lower unemployment, but analysts say the unemployment figures are misleading because in reality many workers have given up their search employment.
- In 2011 and 2012, the Spaniards demonstrated en masse but the lack of results they obtained made them lose the means and the energy to go on strike. In Greece too, we feel an abandonment of the unions and people give up demonstrating. In the countries of the periphery, the governments have not succeeded in channeling the feeling of frustration of the population and as a result the latter is beginning to explore political alternatives.
- One of these alternatives is the neo-Nazi Greek party Golden Dawn, which, despite being associated with assassinations and many other acts of violence, remains an important movement in the Greek political landscape. Another is offered by the Italian populist party Movimento 5 Stelle of comedian Beppe Grillo, which prides itself on opposing the establishment.
- Dissatisfaction is mounting across the continent with the lack of results of EU policy on immigration and unemployment.
"A great battle is being waged between the Europe of the peoples and the Europe of the populists (...) I am fighting for a Europe that can understand that austerity can kill, and that the policy of all-austerity will above all benefit to Le Pen and other Eurosceptics such as Grillo,” Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said last month. The next European elections will therefore be decisive and we could witness a plebiscite of Eurosceptic parties.
Source (s): Express.be via Master Confucius
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- LPM promulgated: the drift of politics towards generalized surveillance...
Here, at least that way we are fixed, I wanted here to congratulate La Quadrature du Net (and its members) who will have been involved until the last moment but it seems that some deputies are ganging up to destroy what remains of democracy in France ... You will notice, moreover, that these are always the same which stands out....
Paris, December 19, 2013 — The President of the Republic has promulgated the military programming law, the text of which appeared last night in the Official Journal. The adoption of its article 20 and the absence of referral to the Constitutional Council demonstrate a deep crisis of a political power no longer hesitating to massively undermine fundamental rights. La Quadrature du Net thanks all those who participated in the fight against these provisions and calls for continuing the fight against the surveillance of content and communications on the Internet by all means: legislative, judicial, technological and choice of use.
The text of the Law No. 2013-1168 of December 18, 2013 relating to military programming for the years 2014 to 2019 and containing various provisions concerning defense and national security was published last night in the Official Journal. Its article 20 (formerly 13) opens the door to a widely extended surveillance of information and documents on the Internet, including by soliciting the network in real time and with the participation of telecommunications and Web services operators, for purposes far beyond largely the imperatives of defense and national security.
The adoption of these provisions with ambiguous wording and having nothing to do in a military programming law, then the absence of constitutional referral, demonstrate a very serious crisis of democratic representation and its respect for fundamental rights. This law was adopted unanimously by the elected Socialists, who were nevertheless very widely divided on article 20 (at the time article 13), and while they had voted in the opposite direction on provisional and less dangerous provisions in 2006 and 2008 Those from the UMP, the environmental group and the left-wing GDR rejected the law in both chambers1.
However, once this law was adopted, political divisions and group discipline were the main cause of the failure of attempts to collect the 60 signatures necessary for referral to the Constitutional Council, despite citizen mobilization and many alerts of organizations various. The political vote of a PS held on a leash, the sectarianism of the UMP refusing to co-sign with green or communist deputies and the brutal intimidation of its members by its group leader Christian Jacob will remain in our memories as emblematic of the drift towards a post-democratic regime.
Many steps will allow citizens to continue the fight against the development of generalized surveillance that has become the instrument of political powers incapable of acting for the common interest. From a legal point of view, the publication of the decree in Council of State provided for in the law and the laws announced on intelligence and online freedoms will provide new opportunities for debate, decision and appeal. But it is on the political level and that of uses that our rights and our freedoms will be played out just as much.
“With the other associations for the defense of rights and freedoms which have mobilized against Article 20, we will campaign relentlessly against surveillance and these violations of the separation of powers. We will ask for a strong affirmation of the role of the judiciary, the right to privacy and individual freedoms in future laws and by all possible means of redress” says Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder and spokesperson of the association La Quadrature du Net.
“The balance of rights can only be restored if citizens strongly demonstrate that there is no democracy or free human beings to express themselves in a diffuse surveillance society and if everyone, in their choices of services, tools and usage reclaims what has been abandoned to centralized operators” says Philippe Aigrain, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net.
source: Laquadrature.net
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