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Publication : A circle of misery

From neoliberal globalization to Euro crisis. By Mario Candeias.

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Online Publication
Author
Mario Candeias,
Published
April 2013
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The Euro zone today has become the central battle field of the crisis of neoliberal globalization. Therefore, the most critical point of the current situation – is the euro crisis. One of the key features of neoliberal globalization was to remove national borders for the flow of capital and commodities. But as we know, this does not mean to dismantle the state, but to give him a new form: the so-called “competitive state”, were social interests and welfare of a whole society are only a secondary result of competitiveness.

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