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Global Comment: Is Europe finally giving up on the illusion of democratic representation?<\/a><\/p>\n

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My latest for Global Comment about the EU, democracy and the rule of financial corporations:<\/p>\n

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There is hunger in Europe. For the first time since World War II, this hunger and extreme poverty are not limited to pockets of exclusion in Eastern nations but running across the continent<\/a>. Greece, Italy, Spain are in international media almost daily with depictions of hardships, soaring unemployment and deprivation. The European summer saw the birth of \u201cthe indignant ones\u201d<\/a>, a wave of protests sweeping these nations and to an extent, replicated across France. These \u201cindignant ones\u201d clashed violently with police at the peak of the Greek anti austerity protests<\/a>, expressing a collective discontent that went, for the most part, ignored. Now, two months after these clashes, the European Union is still not responding with the haste that would be expected to aid its own citizens. A European Union that was once portrayed as \u201cstrength in unity\u201d is now more fragmented and disunited than ever since its creation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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