MD tviti od 16.5.2017
Varoufakis kritik Macrona.Tudi mi imamo veliko Varoufakisov. Zato nimamo flexicurity, vitke uprave, krivimo N/EK/ECB https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/opposing-macron-from-the-start-by-yanis-varoufakis-2017-05
Francija ima težave, zato reforme. Vzrok ni neoliberalizem, saj ima zelo socialist. kapitalizem. Vsaka država mora…, Nemčija ni vsemogočna.
MacronReforme zaradi izgubljenega desetletja. Dolg drž.×2, za socialo največ vOECD, davki, birokracija, brezposeln. https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-16/the-economic-time-bombs-facing-president-macron?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Yanis Varoufakis May 15, 2017 Project Synicate (Excerpt by MD)

No “honeymoon” period: we must oppose Macron immediately. Here’s why.

He follows a long tradition of blaming the legal constraints on firing workers for the fall in permanent employment and the emergence of a new division between protected and precarious employees – between insiders, with well-paid, quasi-tenured positions, and outsiders, who work as service providers without benefits and often under zero-hour contracts. Trade unions and the left, according to this view, are actually a conservative force, because they defend insiders’ interests while ignoring the plight of the burgeoning army of outsiders.

For Macron, a true progressive must not only support reforms that strengthen employers’ right to dismiss and manage workers; equally important are increases in social security for those losing their jobs, training in new skills, and incentives to take up new jobs.

There is, of course, nothing new to this idea. Known by the unfortunate neologism “flexicurity,” it was implemented with some success in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries in the 1990s. In today’s France, investment in fixed capital, relative to national income, is at its lowest level in decades – and falling. … flexicurity is bound to fail badly in France

Macron’s greatest difficulty will be: dealing with Germany; …which castigate the French for their failure to bring the government’s budget deficit below the agreed 3%-of-GDP limit.

Macron has pledged to achieve this by dismissing civil servants, cutting local government spending, and increasing indirect taxes, which ultimately hit the poorest. …this is bound to weaken aggregate demand. …As if this were not enough, Macron has promised to redress an injustice he feels burdens the low-income, asset-rich French: he pledged to reduce taxes on wealth or assets that do not generate incomes above a certain threshold. To do so while practicing austerity on the poor is to commit an act of vandalism on an already divided society.

Macron understands the folly in the foundations of the eurozone. And he has promised to work tirelessly to convince Germany that Europe must speedily create a proper banking union, common unemployment insurance, a debt-restructuring mechanism for countries like Greece and Portugal, a proper federal treasury, Eurobonds (operating like US Treasuries), and a federal parliament that legitimizes the federal treasury’s authority.

So, what will Macron do when Germany says nein? …All we see is a readiness to do whatever Germany demands in advance, including “flexicurity,” austerity, and so forth, in the hope that Germany will then agree to some of his eurozone reforms before it is too late.