キプロス金融危機の欧州連合の対応の貧さに見られる政治能力の無能、政治責任の混乱、利己国主義の弊害
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Desgobierno
Falta de autoridad y confusión de responsabilidades resultan en una sensación de desasosiego
Josep Ramoneda 24 MAR 2013 - 00:00 CET
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misrule
Lack of authority and confusion of responsibilities results in a feeling of uneasiness
Josep Ramoneda 24 MAR 2013 - 00:00 CET
The sense of lawlessness grows daily, in Spain and in Europe, and yet, the governments act in an extremely interventionist. What explains this paradox? Governments tighten and yet rife among citizens a sense of powerlessness. Why? The crisis has demolished the image not only of politics but of the ruling classes in general, to whom society is increasingly complicit in a great deception that led to a disaster that could have been avoided if not for the greed of some and the incompetence of others. The uncompromising imposition of austerity policies has caused a drift of our democratic regimes toward authoritarianism. The complex European power system has created serious doubts about the ability of governments, while the democratic legitimacy has relegated to the background. National institutions are subject to a non-EU political rennet, through a Council, an intergovernmental treaty expression and therefore governed by the law of the strongest, Germany, for the moment, and a Commission bearer of the truth of the experts, setting up a system of power in which the legitimacy that comes from the citizens have a secondary role. The result is a feeling that governments impose much, but send little, and that rulers have no authority. Unconvincing in his words, his actions and unreliable. Lack of authority and confusion of responsibilities resulting in the feeling of anarchy, which is always a factor of social unrest. As Borges account, humans prefer in the center of the labyrinth has someone, even when the Minotaur, because there is nothing more disturbing than the chaos, the idea that no one is in charge, not even the devil. So much like conspiracy theories.
The Cyprus crisis is poised to become the icon of this sense of anarchy and confusion. When the powers that violate the very foundations of his term and then ignore their own decisions is something wrong with the functioning of the European power system. Germany proposes, others accept without question. "A good deal," said a spokesman for the Spanish government. The public is outraged, Cyprus explodes, markets concern emit signals and all deny what they had decided unanimously. Break and legal safeguards are circumvented political responsibilities. Pure misrule.
A lack of authority, confusion of powers and promiscuity between political and other powers unite countermajoritarian structural causes to configure this overwhelming feeling that no one commands. On one hand, the contradiction, the neoliberal paradigm itself, rant about the State Governments, which, says Daniel Cohen, give the direction of the world economy "in a time when social needs migrate to areas that have difficulties to enroll in the commercial logic: health, education, scientific research and the Internet world, "but at the same time involved in all areas on a crusade for citizenship impregnate market values. Moreover, the dissolution of the middle classes as catalysts of government culture in which it has opened a large gap between integrated and excluded. And thirdly, the effects of the eruption still imprecise Internet, which offers great potential for better control of the rulers, but also an explosion of narcissism that makes it increasingly difficult to maintain basic democratic division between public and private .
This sense of lawlessness has worsened obviously shackled by the explosion of corruption cases in recent decades in Spain. When the two heads of a two-headed regime: the aristocratic (head of state) and democratic (head of government), are subject to blackmail, lawlessness stalks. At the same time, the crisis of Bankia will remain forever as a symbol of lawlessness that is not only of politics but of the ruling classes in general. Corruption always delayed bursts. While governments are strong and authoritative, corruption becomes invisible. Deep down, nobody wants to see, because fear of power prevails. So the emergence of corruption almost always accompanies the crisis of authority and power is a sign of lawlessness. It is the realization that sometimes between the government and mismanagement there is only a matter of appearances.
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