• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    It’s a great idea in theory.

    But plenty of people still remember the ECB “Austerity” campaigns of the 2010s, which crippled Southern Europe and kicked off a wave of far-right party organizing across the continent.

    Add to it, the Austerity programs championed in Europe a decade ago came from the same Chicago School and Anarcho-Capitalist mouthpieces that have injected Jeanine Áñez into Bolivia, Milei into Argentina, and now José Antonio Kast into Chile, with a looming threat of Maria Corina Machado being foisted on Venezuela.

    So, United EU on what terms, exactly?