extraordinary meetings and events:
VAROUFAKIS & HOLLAND
AT THE NEXT LEFT CAUCUS MEETING:
Α Modest Proposal for Overcoming the Euro Crisis
NOV 30 – 1:15 pm to 3:00pm – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT – BRUSSELS
Room Jan 4Q2 > József Antall building
The next LEFT CAUCUS event will take place in the European Parliament on the 30th of November. Yanis Varoufakis and Stuart Holland will present their Modest Proposal for Overcoming the Euro Crisis and a debate with regard to the Euro Crisis and the possible solutions will follow.
The Modest Proposal outlines a three-pronged, comprehensive solution to the eurozone crisis that simultaneously addresses the three main dimensions of the current crisis in the eurozone (sovereign debt, banking, and underinvestment), restructures both a share of sovereign debt and that of banks, and does not involve a fiscal transfer of taxpayers’ money. Additionally, it requires no moves toward federation, no fiscal union, and no transfer union.
The LEFT CAUCUS is a platform established by progressive MEPs of different four political groups and open to everyone in the community of the European Parliament standing for social justice, peace, sustainability, solidarity and fairness in the economy.
The latest version of the Modest Proposal (2.2) can be downloaded here.
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Yanis Varoufakis (Athens, 1961)
A true rising star in economics, he regularly comments on BBC, CNN and Sky News.
Mr. Varoufakis is an economist who heads the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Athens. From 1982 to 2000 he taught at several universities: Essex, East Anglia, Cambridge, Sydney, Glasgow, Université Catholique de Louvain. Back in Athens he set up “an innovative, progressive, pluralist, international Doctoral Program in Economics, also known as UADPhilEcon”. He also develops an on going “artistic-cum-political project” with his wife Danae Stratou, called Vital Space.
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
VIDEO: A TED Talk by Yanis Varoufakis on one of his previous proposals: “A Modest Proposal for Transforming Europe”, October 2011.
Stuart Holland (Manchester, 1940)
Mr. Holland is an expert on European matters and former UK MP who worked with Jacques Delors and proposed the issuance of “Union Bonds” twenty years ago. Recently, he co-signed in the Financial Times the article “A plan to save the euro and curb speculators” along with Giuliano Amato, Guy Verhofstadt, Michel Rocard and Mário Soares, amongst others.
Mr. Holland is currently teaching at the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. After his studies in Oxford (Balliol College), Mr. Holland became the leading architect of the Labour Party’s economic programmes from 1972 to 1983. He was a Member of Parliament in the UK and a Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. He has published several books, including The Market Economy: From Micro to Mesoeconomics (1987), The European Imperative: Economic and Social Cohesion in the 1990s (1993) and Europe in Question: Constitution, Cohesion and Enlargement (2004).
VIDEO: “From Debt to Recovery” – a conference at the FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference in Dublin, 2011.
FOR OUTSIDE REGISTRATION TO ATTEND THE EVENT, SEND NAME, DATE OF BIRTH AND INSTITUTION TO LEFTCAUCUS.30NOVEMBER@GMAIL.COM NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 28, 12:00.
