Well, let’s say it as it is: In the end we were not the drones of the south. We did not shave our heads under palm trees and did not pour freddle in the semi -outdoor built with the sweat of the Dutch taxpayers.
We were working. Most of all. Confirms this and Eurostat – Not an institute of dubious national consciousness.
39,8 hours a week The average Greek works when the European is gathering at 36. The Dutch especially, at 32.
Come on, and good siesta to Utrecht.
And yet, The narrative of lazy was suggesting. Not only there – the “partners”, the “institutions”, the budget Orthodox who came with the logic of the pharmacist and granted us to us memorandum For our sins.
But here too, in the domestic. Those who scream “Basta Schoeble!” From right -wing, neo -liberals, to former radicals who became more technocrats than Draghi.
They invented a “not producing people”, who “borrows for vacations”, which is “irresponsible”. Yes there were as they exist all over the world even in Germany …
On this cheap stereotype they passed the whole Agenda of wage demolitionher deregulation and her social devaluation.
And as they deconstructing the welfare state, which was supposedly “not worth it”, they forgot to explain who managed it, who co -ordinated it, who set up the customers, parties and subsidies in a way that produced by the production and the labor of cheap fuel.
The most paradox; Many of those who today evaluate “healthy entrepreneurship” and “green growth” are the same persons who once held flames at amphitheater assemblies.
And eventually turned into Euro missionaries, austerity servants and market brokers.
Today, The EU has neither narrative nor direction. The only thing left to her is a hard currency and a budgetary gravity that pulls the states to the floor. Its postwar vision ended in the 2008 crisis. The rest was a collapse management. And now, she waits from her right – the domesticated far -right – to put order, while giving cash and fences.
But The next crisis will not only be budgetary. Will also be climate. And energy. And democratic. And then, who will work 40 hours a week and who will shake your finger?
And when the new narrators come, those who already sew the new costumes for the next “salvation”, let us remind them of one thing:
We were not lazy. They just told us so, to work above – and to talk less.