El rapto de Europa por el Capital

Abstract

This text tries to analise the recent steps undertaken by the “european project” and to outline the next ones that are being planned for the future. First, it approaches the reforms approved in the past summit of Nice, that are a continuation of the neoliberal policies started by the Single Act (that created the Single Market) and then by the Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam. The Treaty of Nice, that still needs to be ratified by the different countries of the Union, designs a superpower “Europe”, that will be increasingly unbalanced and unequal, most of all when the enlargement to the East would take place. The EU is already one of the principal actors pushing the globalization process worldwide, and the Treaty of Nice will underline this role. The “Europe at different speeds” that emerges from Nice, where the possibilities for “reinforced cooperations” are defined for the central countries of the EU, will finally be institutionalized by the future Treaty of 2004. That Treaty will define a central core for the future EU, that will probably have a federal structure, as it is the wish of Germany, with all the privileges, and one or several periferies that will suffer the dinamics imposed by that core, that will be structured around the euro.