Multitudes 14 on the US-Europe Rift

* Special Issue: Multitudes #14: the US-Europe Rift

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Summary

Michel Bauwens, 2003:

Article 1: Yann-Moulier Boutang on the US-Euro rift

Boutang argues that Europe has a built in tendency towards federalism, even if it is not formally recognized. He believes that the rift is not short-term because:

   - 1) the massive mobilization against the 2nd Iraq war showed a unified European public opinion, which is also against neoliberalism, considered to be a 
US project

   - 2) because the Euro forces Europe to compete with the dollar on the international financial market, creating unwelcome constraints for the US

YMB thinks the hawks are a long-term phenomenom, not limited to the fundamentalists, and their enemy is in fact precisely a strong Europe, which would act differently