European petition for Angela Merkel’s electoral defeat!

This petition concerns all European citizens. Its intention is to ask our German friends to participate in saving Europe by not voting for Mrs Merkel at next elections on September 22, 2013. If Mrs Merkel wins these elections she will continue pushing Europe, and all of its members, to conduct policies characterised by austerity, deregulation and privatization, which slowly but surely reduce the social achievements of each country and drive Europe deeper in the strongest crisis it’s been living since 1929. Dear European Citizens, it is still time to react before September 22! Afterwards it will be too late: if Mrs Merkel stays another 4 years, Europe will certainly have exploded!!!

If economic policies do not change in Europe, the South Countries will stop accepting these austerity policies which impoverish their populations. In Greece for example, purchasing power has been divided by two in just two years (2011 and 2012), when extreme austerity policies were put in place. Facing such facts, how dare A. Merkel continue arguing that such policies are the only solution for the country’s wealth?
In order to conduct other policies, these countries will probably need to withdrawal, or will be excluded, from the Euro zone (or maybe even European Union). Contagiously, there is a real risk of explosion of Europe and of repetitive bank and financial crises. Moreover, if these austerity policies, of which European citizens don’t want, are continuously applied in all countries, whichever government may be in place (and regardless of its party affiliation), European population will be more and more disgusted by politics. As a consequence, in this crisis context, extreme-right parties which defend cultural isolationism, ultra-nationalism, and incite to hate other countries and immigrants, could actually win national elections in countries like France. This would question not only Europe but also the political stability and the fundamentals of our democracies.

To get out of this crisis, Europe must absolutely change radically in its economic policies and in its institutions; this why European elections in 2014 must give birth to a majority hostile to austerity policies at the European parliament. However there is no hope for change as long as Mrs Merkel rules Germany. Indeed Mrs Merkel and Mr Sarkozy were the instigators of the TSCG (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance), which was then signed by all European leaders. This treaty prevents European countries to conduct recovery policies which are so essential to re-launch economic growth in Europe. Moreover Mrs Merkel keeps opposing herself to any economic stimulation at European level, when a remake of Roosevelt’s New Deal (like in the USA in the 30’s), would be so helpful in order to enhance production and employment all over Europe by conducting important projects and constructions. In this purpose, “euro-bounds”, allowing European countries to mutualise their debts, should be created. European leaders have given thoughts to the creation of these “euro-bounds”, however this project has been abandoned, thanks to Mrs Merkel’s fierce opposition to any form of solidarity between European countries.

However my German friends, these austerity policies led in Europe are harmful for all of us, including you. When Europe suffers, everybody suffers, because of interdependence between European countries, Germany included. German economic growth hasn’t stopped decreasing in the past 3 years, and is now close to 0% in 2013. German exportations decrease because German clients are mainly European (63% of German exportations are in direction of a European country). Moreover, as in most European countries, precariousness (illustrated by numerous forms of ‘mini-jobs’), poor workers, and social inequalities are strongly increasing in Germany. Germans, like all other European citizens, have all to lose if these austerity policies continue, and all to win if recovery policies are conducted.