The wolf fur Europe has lost a lot from that di'che was now reduced to a sarcophagus that contains only old and worn relics unable to give meaning and substance policy to a subject, more and more unbearable, and bloated bureaucracy, compared with a Dome financial and business center. Or
well in early December, the European Union held a summit with African states, the highest level, involving seventy heads of state and government from Europe and Africa.
at the event was Lisbon, the capital of one of the historically African rapist. Subject
the historic event was the 'Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the two continents, said more prosaically, it was to redesign and identify the guidelines of the African European relations. The relationship between the two continents, far from that idyllic, with more than 500 years and certainly have not taken the path that idyll in Lisbon.
Here, we would say "even" here, the EU has proved incapable of going beyond itself, beyond its historical past, ancient and recent, as well as their cultural patterns and concepts, as well as the insaldabili and eternal debt of gratitude to all the edicts and the stresses that come from North America. From
Merkel Sarkozy, Prodi and Zapatero to continue with the other, they had better things to offer that, creating a unique space for free trade in goods and services, allowing up to the possibility of excluding certain products or services, for a temporary time.
What can I say? Smart and original
On the other hand knows how even a novice student of the economy, free movement of goods and services, leading to the proper allocation of resources, development, material and spiritual welfare etc etc.. Of course it is!: Who could doubt if not a fool or a fool, that any company of Mozambique or Rwanda could freely compete with Germany rather than France? The shelves of our supermarkets, as you well know, plenty of products made in Ethiopia, made in Sudan, made in Ghana or Mali, not to mention the wonderful Hi Fi Burkina Faso or the beautiful and convenient Senegalese insurance agency. This is the fantasy world imagined by proponents of these recipes. We are the usual!
confuse Europeans, Freudian, an agreement or a treaty with the imposition of a model which is not only economic but also social and cultural, as if still not enough, then outsource the management of the devastating consequences of these policies, all ' anything but new, but at least thirty years, to philanthropy, in all its variants (Catholic, secular, progressive alternatives matrix even sessantottino) or emergency. The stick and the carrot of the order of almsgiving
Protectionism and the protection of strategic sectors that have been columns on which are formed all the Western economic powers, they become unbearable and heresies punishable if applied by others. Lisbon, however, take risks, despite the recipe dull, stale and repetitive, as proposed by the West, to become truly "historic".
E 'was the site of first refusal, almost collectively, the European proposal.
African states, with different accents and with few exceptions, have given rise to strong criticism and blatant waste. The Portuguese summit was the last act of a three lively and restless for the international relations of this immense and rich continent.
During these two years have already held bilateral meetings to Caracas, Beijing, are planned soon in Japan and India. The word liberal has no monopoly, is obsolete and even overcome, many of these countries.
Agreements descriptive treats and in many ways is already put into practice, would no longer be subordinated to instrumental protocols political, economic and financial institutions "to respect, the loans are no longer bound to wear rates that, in fact, make the bad loans but constantly conditioning and, above all implementation of the currency, speculative asset par excellence, as the only means of economic exchange. Enter into business relationships also staff training, building of social infrastructure and economic, the establishment of joint ventures.
This path is not linear, there are many pitfalls, contradictions and pitfalls, but remains the undoubted merit of calling in political discussions now elevated to the rank of dogma and of acts of faith and, above all the fact of giving the pile European arrogance and Western Europe. The leading role
Latin American, African and Sino-Indian objectively challenge the axis formed by the Washington Consensus (IMF, World Bank, blocking US / Europe) and, for the first time, puts viable alternative for those looking to escape the recipes neoliberal.
Europe, like the Lisbon summit has shown, can not get rid of the syndrome the looting and speculation.
The integration of the continent in the international economy and respect for human rights, but act as a Trojan horse is a horse naked, which, someone begins to order the eviction.
LUIGI FINOTTO
