www.german-foreign-policy.com , 2011/02/14 The "EU Competitiveness Pact," being pushed by Germany and France, is encountering massive resistance throughout Europe. The project, which is said to form the nucleus of the EU's future economic governing body, is supposed to obligate all countries of the Euro zone to introduce so-called debt limitations, raise retirement ages and lower real incomes. This, in the name of creating an economic governing body, would impose a German economic concept on all Euro zone countries, an objective France has always sought. The objective would be to transform the EU, along the lines of the German model, into a global exporting power - at the expense of the prosperity of Europe's populations, who are being forced to submit to increasingly precarious living standards. Even the German business press has begun to warn that the enforcement of this pact could lead to "violent conflicts - particularly in southern EU countries." As a matter of fact, massive protests are already in progress. Southern European media characterize this German-French economic dictate to the EU as a "coup d'état" and warn against a "Germanization of Europe". Economic Dictate
The Germanization of Europe
The Germanization of Europe
The Germanization of Europe
www.german-foreign-policy.com , 2011/02/14 The "EU Competitiveness Pact," being pushed by Germany and France, is encountering massive resistance throughout Europe. The project, which is said to form the nucleus of the EU's future economic governing body, is supposed to obligate all countries of the Euro zone to introduce so-called debt limitations, raise retirement ages and lower real incomes. This, in the name of creating an economic governing body, would impose a German economic concept on all Euro zone countries, an objective France has always sought. The objective would be to transform the EU, along the lines of the German model, into a global exporting power - at the expense of the prosperity of Europe's populations, who are being forced to submit to increasingly precarious living standards. Even the German business press has begun to warn that the enforcement of this pact could lead to "violent conflicts - particularly in southern EU countries." As a matter of fact, massive protests are already in progress. Southern European media characterize this German-French economic dictate to the EU as a "coup d'état" and warn against a "Germanization of Europe". Economic Dictate