Veronika Sušová-Salminen is our guest On the barricades this time. She is a researcher from the Czech Republic, who produced a report on the peripheries of the European Union in a project supported by Transform! Europe in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The project’s name is catchy and self-explanatory: A Hundred Shades of the EU — Mapping the Political Economy of the Euro Peripheries.
The EU has been in crisis for a long time. Many of its defenders tend to equate any kind of criticism with right-wing ‘euro-skepticism.’ But it is precisely because there are elements in the EU project that we believe in that we embarked on the mission of pointing out the negative aspects of the economic model that is responsible for the ongoing EU crisis. In this episode of On the Barricades, we discuss the dependency of the Eastern European states in terms of finances and how they find themselves in the impossible situation of not having enough tools to decide on their countries' strategies.
This podcast was published as part of The Barricade's collaboration with the Transform! Network, a network of 39 European organizations from 23 countries that are active in the fields of political education and critical scientific analysis, and is the recognized political foundation corresponding to the Party of the European Left.
“Hundred shades of the EU — Mapping the Political Economy of Euro Peripheries”, is a title of the research study, conducted by transform! europe with the support of the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation that aims at characterizing at the socio-economic, political, and cultural levels the current existing peripheries within the European Union. The full study will be published in the first quarter of 2022 and the workshop, organized in the context of the European Forum 2022, some of aspects were unveiled.
European periphery — EU's dark side w/ Veronika Sušová-Salminen