Schlagwort: Maastricht criteria

  • Lynn Walsh: Eurocrash!

    [Socialism Today, No 20, July/August 1997, p. 21-28] “The Euro is coming” was the verdict of Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima at last month’s Amsterdam summit. But, says, Lynn Walsh the Euro is ‘going’ – down the drain fast. In reality the summit marked a head-on collision between Germany, which is insisting on strict adherence to…

  • Lynn Walsh: European capitalist unity in crisis

    [Socialism Today, No. 6, March 1996] Lynn Walsh examines the growing fears among European capitalist leaders that monetary union won’t happen as planned, throwing their plans for political union into turmoil ‚France prepares for EMU‘ was the front-cover caption for the Economist on 9/15 December. The dramatic colour photo showed a demonstrator pouring petrol onto…