The EU Spring Summit
What is the EU Summit?
Spring 2013 Background
The meaning of Austerity
Austerity – our governments claim – is unavoidable: we need to repay the national deficit following the global economic meltdown, or our economies will never recover. But that deficit was accumulated by bailing out the banks – the very same banks and bankers that caused the meltdown.
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For a European Spring was a a call for actions, strikes and demonstrations all over Europe on the 13th of March, and for a pan-European demonstration and creative actions in the city of Brussels on the 14th of March. It was targeted at the EU Spring Summit happening in the Belgian capital at the same time, where leaders from across the continent assembledto strengthen the European Council's austere response to the crisis.
The pan-European movement continues to grow and For a European Spring will use its website to spread the word of new mobilisations, actions, strikes and struggles that are helping to build a grass-roots resistance to the injust and undemocratic policies being imposed by the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank - a.k.a. the Troika.