The Independent: Europa bør bruge den svenske model

Loonie journalisten Johann Hari skriver i The Independent om, hvad EU bør gøre de næste 50 år for at cementere Europas samarbejde i anledning af EU’s 50 års fødselsdag.

Han angiver 3 punkter, hvor EU kan forbedres:

Mission Two: Saving social democracy. Since the 1980s, the US government has been promoting an economic model that funds and fosters corporations and the rich, but largely leaves the middle class and the poor to fend for themselves. Europe believes in a very different model. We know that markets are an essential tool for generating wealth, but we also know that the state must act to compensate for the failings and toxic side-effects of the market.

Although there are certainly examples – like France – where this can go wrong, it can also work brilliantly.

The Swedes do everything the Americans say you shouldn’t: they have a 55 per cent top rate of tax, more than a year of paid parental leave, a very high minimum wage, and more. The result? They have 6 per cent unemployment, negligible crime rates, and the highest quality of life and the best social mobility in the world. Europe should stand for preserving and spreading this model.

Punkt 1 er bekæmpelse at drivhuseffekten (underforstået i modsætning til USA) og punkt 3 er en anden udenrigspolitik end USA’s.

Mere på The Independent.

Han har helt ret bortset fra, at Sverige ikke har minimumslønniger, arbejdsløsheden er adskilligt højere end USA’s, Sverige har en kriminalitet, der er næsten 4 gange så høj, som gennemsnittet af 35 landes og Sveriges livs-kvalitetsmål ligger som nummer 5 efter ikke-EU-landet Norge.

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