Anticipating the collective volume "Europe 2.0 perspectives and developments in the European dream," Nicole and Simone Vallinoto Vannuccini (ed.), Shadows Court, Verona, May 2010.
From Chapter:
The debt of Europe to compensate Africa
Raffaella Chiodo Karpinsky *
The island of Gorée is severe and indelible part of our history. For us Europeans, in the wrong. There is no escape. There is only debt. Our. Yet, five hundred years since Gore was focused men and women destined for deportation to the West -
first selection, then the one-way trip to slavery -, there is no recognition and the exploitation continues. The exploitation of time and centuries to come, through whom we have built wealth and progress for this part of the world. For the other party, in fact,
no choice but to sentence the processes of impoverishment. Before colonization with monocultures, then the expropriation natural resources, from wheat to coal through the diamonds and gold and finally, the structural adjustments imposed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Given the adverse outcomes that these organizations have produced their loans seems to have never had the intention to be such, even if - under the sign of the oil crisis in '73 and good intentions than they should be
years eighties, the potential "decade of development" -, their programs should make possible the reconstruction of devastated economies left by former colonizers.
A really believe and invest substantial resources is really stata una generazione di importanti leader europei. Personalità della sinistra europea come Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, Altiero Spinelli o Enrico Berlinguer. Una tipologia di politici con una visione responsabile dell’Europa e degli organismi internazionali fondamentali, come le Nazioni Unite, di cui oggi si sente una profonda mancanza. Ma il re è nudo e da tempo. Oggi nessuno lo può più negare che a vincere su quelle visioni solidali ha prevalso ben altro approccio. L’approccio di chi ha inventato il meccanismo perverso del debito estero dei paesi impoveriti, che alla fine dei conti non è stato altro se non un modo per rispondere, più che alle necessità delle economie decolonizzate, alle esigenze delle economie colpite dalle crisi oil of the seventies. External debt has been and is still largely a great fortune, insurance indefinitely revenue into the coffers of rich countries. In fact put it out on time and in the manner alleged by the measures and the conditions imposed was and is simply not possible, pay it back, but it is possible, and even several times, with interest from dizziness.
first selection, then the one-way trip to slavery -, there is no recognition and the exploitation continues. The exploitation of time and centuries to come, through whom we have built wealth and progress for this part of the world. For the other party, in fact,
no choice but to sentence the processes of impoverishment. Before colonization with monocultures, then the expropriation natural resources, from wheat to coal through the diamonds and gold and finally, the structural adjustments imposed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Given the adverse outcomes that these organizations have produced their loans seems to have never had the intention to be such, even if - under the sign of the oil crisis in '73 and good intentions than they should be
years eighties, the potential "decade of development" -, their programs should make possible the reconstruction of devastated economies left by former colonizers.
A really believe and invest substantial resources is really stata una generazione di importanti leader europei. Personalità della sinistra europea come Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, Altiero Spinelli o Enrico Berlinguer. Una tipologia di politici con una visione responsabile dell’Europa e degli organismi internazionali fondamentali, come le Nazioni Unite, di cui oggi si sente una profonda mancanza. Ma il re è nudo e da tempo. Oggi nessuno lo può più negare che a vincere su quelle visioni solidali ha prevalso ben altro approccio. L’approccio di chi ha inventato il meccanismo perverso del debito estero dei paesi impoveriti, che alla fine dei conti non è stato altro se non un modo per rispondere, più che alle necessità delle economie decolonizzate, alle esigenze delle economie colpite dalle crisi oil of the seventies. External debt has been and is still largely a great fortune, insurance indefinitely revenue into the coffers of rich countries. In fact put it out on time and in the manner alleged by the measures and the conditions imposed was and is simply not possible, pay it back, but it is possible, and even several times, with interest from dizziness.
* RAFFAELLA NAIL Karpinski, freelance. Jobs Uisp the International Department. Awepa observer, the EU, the UN in Africa and the OSCE in Russia. Coordinator of debt relief. Among the promoters of the States General of solidarity and international cooperation, "International Network of Women for Peace," board member
Table of Peace. Sites: www.radioarticolo1.it; www.womenetworkforpeace.net;
www.perlapace.it; www.peacegamesuisp.org.
Table of Peace. Sites: www.radioarticolo1.it; www.womenetworkforpeace.net;
www.perlapace.it; www.peacegamesuisp.org.
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