欧州の緊縮財政の他には対策がないのだろうか?
¿No hay alternativa?
La recesión demuestra que Europa no encuentra el equilibrio entre disciplina fiscal y crecimiento
Claudi Pérez Bruselas 15 NOV 2012 - 12:30 CET
Is there no alternative?
The recession shows that Europe is not the balance between fiscal discipline and growth
Claudi Perez Brussels 15 NOV 2012 - 12:30 CET
The rigor is required, provided it does not turn into rigor. The numbers, obstinate numbers, beginning to show what until now has been a kind of secret: Europe has failed to find a balance between fiscal discipline and growth. The German-inspired economic policy has led to too many countries to implement contractionary fiscal policies at the same time too. Has forced even enshrined this dogma of faith (deficits are prohibited; any sin brings about a harsh penance) in constitutions and treaties, although it seemed clear that the way out of this crisis is not going to manage well the eurozone from beginning to end.
Keynesian policies, prevented a second Great Depression was a mistake but prescribe Keynesianism everywhere at the same time and with the same dose without regard to the conditions of each country. The euro zone has now just at the other end: it would allow the accelerator or brake with public spending according to the conditions of each economy, but instead imposed a one size fits all policy-and what More seriously it has hinted that there was no alternative, and now only allowed to step on the brake.
The momentum at the time declined to French President François Hollande to growth policies has not been seen anywhere. The latitude countries such as Germany, do not do enough to spend a euro more than they should. Under these conditions, Southern Europe, which has implemented austerity policies to the letter, bleeds for those mechanics rudimentary fiscal policies with an iron fist by pressures from Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin (though perhaps the order should be the reverse).
Yesterday's protests are just the beginning: the scientists explain that the "silence of the victims" will be over soon. Societies can withstand internal devaluations as now whenever they see a horizon out otherwise, the fuss is secured with social experiments such as Portugal, which reached down to give salaries to their companies that margin, something the end was rejected, and economic experiments such as Spain, which has been forced to raise VAT in full recession. "From an abstract point of view can always meet a debt. But there is a threshold political, social, moral even beyond which this policy is unacceptable, "wrote Jack Boorman, the IMF, a few years ago. (Paradoxically, the IMF seems lately the only institution that remembers these things, maybe that's why Berlin has openly confronted the Fund in recent weeks on topics such as Greece, but that's another story).
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"Europe has entered a new world almost without being aware of it," said Jean Pisani-Ferry of the Bruegel think tank in Brussels. The specter of a government absent (Commission, Council and Eurogroup could not remove the feeling that this shift is led by Germany and France still manages to say a peep because experiencing a serious economic situation has not yet fully emerged ) and the lack of a safety device in the eurozone have finished giving birth to a questionable governance model.
The Commission does not change even though speech wolf ears recession have already appeared, in part because of the overfitting in the periphery, which has not been offset by growth policies where such joys were possible. Hoping to calm markets, Europe has pushed to cut government deficits and has forgotten the growth and adjustment graduating. Fiscal consolidation becomes a straitjacket. And Europe is unable to get rid of it: the dogma still there even though the numbers decree recession and pessimism. With small mouth, several sources suggest that Brussels may have to wait for the recession comes to Germany and the debt crisis to France to start watching, really, money on the table, and not just financial vehicles, other highly complicated mechanisms and crisis resolution systems.
In the midst of this mess, the left still wandering like ghosts Brussels, and Berlin who is driving virtually alone. This crisis had to leave behind two great axioms of recent years: the rationality of markets (which for a decade was the wrong medium to medium risk by assigning the same to Greece, Spain and Germany, explains economist Paul De Grauwe) and what Professor Anton Costas calls "the perversion of politics", he had to make way for a new way to manage after the storm ends after not appear.
Business as usual: Europe remains mired in an intermezzo in which the new order has just arrived and the old regime refuses to disappear. No policy change despite errors of diagnosis and prescription data are shown one after another. Although Eurostat hammer, great turns undetected sight. There will be a European budget capable of countercyclical policies when necessary. It seems that there will be a joint bank powerful enough to overcome the design flaws of the euro. Even with the minutiae Europe have greatness enough to admit mistakes: Greece is back at the feet of the horses after the failure of the Eurogroup of this week.
Spain is another book if things do not work and still nothing changes. Economic Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said Wednesday that Madrid will not undertake further cuts to correct deviations more than likely in the deficit target in 2012 and 2013. And yet, "would be a mistake to interpret this as an end to austerity," says Wolfgang Münchau, Eurointelligence director, "will need to take additional new austerity measures in 2014, which means that fiscal discipline will continue for the recession. " That is a kind of sentence: what are spelling out happy for months the market is not "you cut the deficit" but "make sure that growth will return." With more and more cuts, with additional tax increases, in the absence of real aid policy and growth in the North, the exit of the tunnel that leads seem to see a minister in southern Europe the sea.
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