Workers-Control-Over-Prod
5th October 2012, 21:21
The EU Commission is thinking around during the economic crisis. It wants to make Europe a continent back to one of industry and to restrict the predominance of the services sector. More training and more investment in factories to make the turn for new and better jobs.
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Brussels - The euro crisis has led to a rethink of the EU Commission. Given the economic downturn in many Member States, the Commission shall be pledged to "reverse the declining role of the industry." This, reportedly to the "world" and the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", emerges from a concept of the competent Commissioner Antonio Tajani. Accordingly, the share of industry in European output to be raised to 20 percent by 2020. Currently, the rate is about 15 percent.
Europe must for the 21st century Reindustrialise, he added. A strong industrial base is crucial for a "prosperous and economically successful Europe". According to the newspaper calls Tajani, who is also Vice President of the Commission, a "third industrial revolution". Under the first industrial revolution is the time, around the middle of the 18th Century began with the invention of the steam engine. The second industrial revolution is dated to around 1900. Then the automated mass production was established.
Tajani will present the concept next Wednesday. How much money to invest, the Commission and the Member States to stand for the plan, is open. According to "SZ" the concept must has yet to approved by several of Tajani's colleagues.
According to the report of the "world", the plan envisages four pillars with which the Commissioner will "restore Europe's attractiveness as a manufacturing base,":
•More investment in factories and research and development.
•Expansion of the internal market and the "opening of international markets."
•Small and medium enterprises should be open access to international markets.
•The European Commission wants to take care of training and match supply and demand for labor better.
The plan specifies the Commission's intention to strengthen the industry in order to create jobs. Problems, but it could be in coordination with the equally ambitious environmental goals. Previously been subject to the requirements for the reduction of greenhouse gases for the share of renewable energy and energy savings as a priority. But now even the German Energy Commissioner Guenter Oettinger says with regard to the targets for 2020. "We need a fourth 20-percent value"
As many are aware, many people have written of a "Third Industrial Revolution", but it seems now to be grabbing the attention of policy makers.
There are some obvious contradictions or rather unspecifics mentioned in the plan, but trying to get Industry from its current (and steadily diminishing) 15% of the total economy to 20%, is quite a scale. As to the scale of State investment, that is quite a crucial piece of information. But even if it is large and geared toward investing into the monopolies of Europe, the further investment into Research and Development will push such inventions as the 3D printer through to the whole producing economy and the EU's future "factory investment" would never cover falling profitability of all the enterprises who will use the advanced means of production.
What seems as a contradiction though, is "opening of international markets." next to "Expansion of the internal market". I mean, if you want to grow capitalist industry in Europe, you have to cut workers wages to increase profitability (thus cutting internal market demand); but that is the curious thing, maybe this plan will increase State investments by that much.
"The European Commission wants to take care of training and match supply and demand for labor better." Now, that's really interesting. If they honestly believe that increasing State investments into the large corporations and increasing worker skill level will bring the EU 25% more industry in the next 8 years of sever debts (without taxing the rich more of course), while increasing internal market demand, they must have some real idiots making these plans.
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Brussels - The euro crisis has led to a rethink of the EU Commission. Given the economic downturn in many Member States, the Commission shall be pledged to "reverse the declining role of the industry." This, reportedly to the "world" and the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", emerges from a concept of the competent Commissioner Antonio Tajani. Accordingly, the share of industry in European output to be raised to 20 percent by 2020. Currently, the rate is about 15 percent.
Europe must for the 21st century Reindustrialise, he added. A strong industrial base is crucial for a "prosperous and economically successful Europe". According to the newspaper calls Tajani, who is also Vice President of the Commission, a "third industrial revolution". Under the first industrial revolution is the time, around the middle of the 18th Century began with the invention of the steam engine. The second industrial revolution is dated to around 1900. Then the automated mass production was established.
Tajani will present the concept next Wednesday. How much money to invest, the Commission and the Member States to stand for the plan, is open. According to "SZ" the concept must has yet to approved by several of Tajani's colleagues.
According to the report of the "world", the plan envisages four pillars with which the Commissioner will "restore Europe's attractiveness as a manufacturing base,":
•More investment in factories and research and development.
•Expansion of the internal market and the "opening of international markets."
•Small and medium enterprises should be open access to international markets.
•The European Commission wants to take care of training and match supply and demand for labor better.
The plan specifies the Commission's intention to strengthen the industry in order to create jobs. Problems, but it could be in coordination with the equally ambitious environmental goals. Previously been subject to the requirements for the reduction of greenhouse gases for the share of renewable energy and energy savings as a priority. But now even the German Energy Commissioner Guenter Oettinger says with regard to the targets for 2020. "We need a fourth 20-percent value"
As many are aware, many people have written of a "Third Industrial Revolution", but it seems now to be grabbing the attention of policy makers.
There are some obvious contradictions or rather unspecifics mentioned in the plan, but trying to get Industry from its current (and steadily diminishing) 15% of the total economy to 20%, is quite a scale. As to the scale of State investment, that is quite a crucial piece of information. But even if it is large and geared toward investing into the monopolies of Europe, the further investment into Research and Development will push such inventions as the 3D printer through to the whole producing economy and the EU's future "factory investment" would never cover falling profitability of all the enterprises who will use the advanced means of production.
What seems as a contradiction though, is "opening of international markets." next to "Expansion of the internal market". I mean, if you want to grow capitalist industry in Europe, you have to cut workers wages to increase profitability (thus cutting internal market demand); but that is the curious thing, maybe this plan will increase State investments by that much.
"The European Commission wants to take care of training and match supply and demand for labor better." Now, that's really interesting. If they honestly believe that increasing State investments into the large corporations and increasing worker skill level will bring the EU 25% more industry in the next 8 years of sever debts (without taxing the rich more of course), while increasing internal market demand, they must have some real idiots making these plans.