Antonio Lettieri: Mario Monti’s comments on national parliaments reflect the European technocracy’s desire to use the debt crisis as an opportunity to force through further neo-liberal policies

The explanation lies in the fact that the sovereign debt crisis has been considered by the European technocracy and by the large majority of centre-right governments of the Eurozone as a good opportunity to force through neo-liberal policies of “austerity and structural reforms”. This is a political standpoint that is deepening the present crisis, creating recession and unemployment in a vicious circle, which future historians will regard as a telling example of economic and political schizophrenia.

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