RES: Tariq Ali on Porto Alegre

[JC Helary]

Le Sun, Feb 11, 2001 a 02:53:46PM -0800, Dennis Robert Redmond a ecrit:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Alexandre Fenelon wrote:
> 
> > -Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czechs are
> > -putting up a pretty good fight against the neolibs.
> > 
> > What does it means? I thought those countries didn´t offered any
> > resistance against shock therapy. Am I wrong?
> 
> No, they reversed a lot of their early pro-market policies, i.e.
> reintroduced tariffs on imports, lowered interest rates, bailed out many
> of their industries, and preserved many aspects of their welfare state.

In this month issue of Le Monde Diplomatique there is a paper on Poland that 
says 75% of agricultural products will revert to 0% tariff on import and that 
a lot of money is spent on catching up with the 'acquis communautaires', on 
buying Nato compatible weapon systems and on strenghtening the borders (to 
comply with schengen?) leaving little to welfare.

jc helary