how European to patronise young climate activists by drawing on the wrong kind of macroeconomics.
'would these pesky Berliners protest if they knew they had to pay for Polish coal miners' is exactly the kind of ignorant question that 10 years of austerity and German #schwarzenull politics have given us, and that the #EuropeanNewDeal is reproducing.
it assumes neither state nor private finance can pay for the #EuropeanGreenDeal, it must come out of the pockets of the progressive Germans who will thus be taught a lesson.
(it also hurts because Borell is a Spanish 'socialist' PSOE, and he should know better than to reproduce conservative German macro discourses)
but Borell's intervention shows why #EuropeanGreenDeal doesn't have the New in the title: it does not seek system change, and it does not have green macro necessary for it.
fight for green macro should be central to @GreensEFA strategy for #EuropeanGreenDeal: green fiscal activism, regulation of brown finance and Just Transition mechanisms that don't rely on supply-side measures like reskilling Polish miners.
Never mind the nerve
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