Join us on this edition of On the barricades to discuss more with Veronika Sušová-Salminen.
Veronika is one of the members who worked on the project A Hundred Shades of the EU – Mapping the Political Economy of the Euro Peripheries with the support of Transform! Europe and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
In this segment of our show, we will discuss the way European peripheries were pushed even further from the center by the political regulations imposed on them. One of the most important sectors for countries like Romania and Bulgaria is agriculture. Unfortunately, joining the European Union translated into cuts in subsidies and a vast concentration of land ownership that made it very hard for small farms to survive.
Veronika Sušová-Salminen spent time investigating EU policies and how the neoliberal economic system is creating inequality and distance in a project that was supposed to be about equity and collaboration. Join us On the barricades for an informed discussion on the European peripheries and their growing precarity due to an economic model that has been promoted for the past decades as being the only possible alternative.
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.
The Euro Peripheries: how the EU is (dis)organizing its agricultural sector