Learning from the Capital's strategy

[Delenda Carthago]

We have to understand what is the plan the EU is trying to apply for the future of the Capital's inverst and growth. What I mean is...

In Greece, the mnemonioum had as one of its basic principles the deconstruction of the education system. That means in the long run that the plan for Greece is to function as a blue collar, low wage working class country. on the contrary, I found out that in Holland, and maybe our comrades might comfirm, one of the issues of their austerity programm is combined with huge amounts of invests on education and workers retraining.

And I just bumped into this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/business/global/to-czech-industry-everything-is-nano.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Thats what Czech economy is focusing on. What about the rest of the Europe? Where is the new strategy of EU focusing on each country?

[Manic Impressive]

In the UK they're seriously contemplating leaving the EU. There was talk of Labour putting a promise of a referendum in their next manifesto. This is surprising as it's something a section of the conservatives have been asking for for ages but have been denied by their own party. Probably because from a bourgeois perspective it would be a bad move.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/23/ed-miliband-referendum-eu-labour

[Delenda Carthago]

In the UK they're seriously contemplating leaving the EU. There was talk of Labour putting a promise of a referendum in their next manifesto. This is surprising as it's something a section of the conservatives have been asking for for ages but have been denied by their own party. Probably because from a bourgeois perspective it would be a bad move.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/23/ed-miliband-referendum-eu-labour

England was always with one foot out of EU. Thats why they never adopted the Euro. They have interests that are antagonistic to Germany's and France's interests, since forever!

Check this out.

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/growth-industries-the-future-for-the-uks-emerging-technology-sectors/1007185.article

[Panda Tse Tung]

I found out that in Holland, and maybe our comrades might comfirm, one of the issues of their austerity programm is combined with huge amounts of invests on education and workers retraining.

Hardly, their actually working hard to make higher education a more elite thing. So if your from a working class family it will become increasingly difficult to graduate at university level. They´ve been talking about needing more blue collar workers for years, of course they use the eastern europeans for this but this leads to some resistance and cant last forever (as in, it cant last past the point of these countries improving to the level of the Netherlands, and of course the Netherlands dropping to their level). The workers retraining has been around for quite some while but can only be used when absolutely neccesary, they started cutting in this as well. So i dont think yoour hypothesis of specialized area's within the EU is completely correct, or at least your analyses of the Dutch role in this hypothesis. The Netherlands is a trading country so we'll always need dockers and transport-workers.

[Firebrand]

Massive cuts to eduction and higher education in particular seem to be a feature of austerity programmes. Then again cuts to pretty much everything are generally considered features of austerity programmes