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Article: The politics of European integration: a European labour movement in the making?
- Article from:
- Capital & Class
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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During the last decade the process of European integration has deepened and intensified. The creation of the single market has been completed and strengthened with the introduction of a single currency and an independent European Central Bank. Powerful and undemocratic forms of regulation have developed at the European level that have both facilitated and legitimated a massive programme of liberalisation, deregulation and privatisation within member states and have constrained levels of public spending and public debt. The neo-liberal restructuring associated with European integration has resulted in mass unemployment, job insecurity and a sustained attack on Keynesian ...