Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 52

8 Changing EU-politics and peoples’ governments In your Volksbühne opening you announced the medium term priori- ty: “In the medium term our priority is to present as DIEM after very long and serious deliberation among all Europeans who want to join us in that deliberation. We want to present de- tailed policy proposals Europeanising and therefore stabilizing the crisis of debts, of banking, of extremely low investment … We are going to be presenting fully fledged comprehensive proposals on how to stabilize the crisis of debt, low investment, banking, poverty, which is rising almost everywhere … .” 41 The medium term priorities comprise plans for joint deliberations on European capitalism to find out stabilizing anti-crisis economic poli- cies while the “Modest Proposal for Resolving the Eurozone Crisis” from July 2013 is the proleptic result. Cause and effect are confused. You see the European economic stabilization connected to the ques- tion of sovereignty. Your theory is: The deeper the crises the less sovereignty and the other way round. The implementation of the “Modestly Proposed Anti-Crisis Policies” enables sovereignty to be restored on national, municipal, city council and parliamentary level. I cannot follow this logic. To win soverei