In spite of their diversity of backgrounds \u2013 economists, unionists, industrial sociologists, environmental activists \u2013, all acknowledged the crucial importance of a renewed industrial policy to allow a European alternative recovery plan for addressing current social, ecological, democratic and economic challenges.
\nThe Greek Premier Antonis Samaras called early presidential election, the probability of snap parliamentary elections is high \u2013 and SYRIZA is in a position to win. This acceleration acutely raises the issue of a progressive alternative plan to oppose the Juncker Plan\u2019s structural weaknesses and pro-business orientations. Politicizing the debt and ending austerity, if highly necessary, won\u2019t be enough. They are conditions to the very possibility of change. What Europe needs \u2013 and especially so-called periphery countries \u2013 is a plan and a massive stimulus package capable of addressing the economic, social, democratic and environmental challenges ahead: that is, a thorough productive-social transformation within the framework of climate change imperatives.
\nThe work undertaken by transform! on the re-launch of industry and Productive Transformation must be seen as a contribution to the European New Deal proposed by Alexis Tsipras. The Juncker Plan, if it acknowledges the need for investment in appearance, is not based on an ambitious European strategy of co-development that would enhance the advantages of the regions, having them cooperate \u2013 and not compete \u2013 with each other. It does not mobilize enough financial means, does not aim at fostering demand or addressing social needs, does not break with the austeritarian logic, and still favor an export-led model.
\nEurope needs to re-launch its industry, so that it can ensure a genuine social-productive transformation to overcome the crisis. The compass of such a transformation must be an ecological and democratic transition affecting positively every level of production and power. In other words, Europe needs a new model of development in complete contrast with the mainstream discourse on competitiveness, labour and finance. In this ideological battle, we have to reverse the trend and to engage in the battle for new representations providing an alternative view on principles and norms that underpin political action.
\nLabour enhancement is a pre-condition for an ambitious alternative, with regard to wages, personal development, workers\u2019 skills and workers\u2019 contributions to innovation \u2013 which implies another definition\/concept of the firm and the de-financialization of the economy. Reducing Europe\u2019s polarization, with its growing internal asymmetries between \u201ccenter\u201d and \u201cperiphery\u201d in terms of industrial fabric and political influence, must be the main guideline of a Left alternative plan to overcome the crisis. Its funding was highly debated during the workshop. Providing concrete progressive proposals for short, medium and long term financing will also be central issues to the work of transform!
\nA joint paper aiming at compiling the working group\u2019s outcomes will be issued by the end of January 2015, and will be presented throughout the coming year at numerous events.<\/p>\n
Workshop-Programm<\/span> siehe hier<\/link>. \u00dcber 20 Teilnehmer_innen aus ganz Europa trafen sich am 8. und 9. Dezember in Paris anl\u00e4sslich eines transform!-Workshops \u00fcber neue europ\u00e4ische Industriepolitik. Nachfolgend ein Kurzbericht in englischer Sprache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,2458],"tags":[1561],"class_list":["post-22290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-artikel","tag-productive-transformation","person-maxime-benatouil-de"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27457,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22290\/revisions\/27457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwdev-transform-network-net.sociality.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nErster ausf\u00fchrlicher Bericht<\/span> der Arbeitsgruppe siehe hier<\/link>.
\nN\u00e4here Informationen: benatouil(at)transform-network.net<\/link>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"