{"id":330166,"date":"2017-10-12T11:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T10:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/schauble-calls-for-the-continuation-of-austerity-policies-in-germany-and-europe\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T10:29:39","slug":"schauble-calls-for-the-continuation-of-austerity-policies-in-germany-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/schauble-calls-for-the-continuation-of-austerity-policies-in-germany-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sch\u00e4uble calls for the continuation of austerity policies  in Germany and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Sch\u00e4uble calls for the continuation of austerity policies  in Germany and Europe<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Peter Schwarz<br \/>\n    <br \/>12 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>German Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble is using his last days in office to call for his austerity policies to be made permanent. The 75-year-old Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician is set to resign in the next few days because he will be elected as president of the Bundestag (federal parliament) on October 24. This week, however, Sch\u00e4uble will be meeting all those who have a say in international monetary and financial policy.<\/p>\n<p>Sch\u00e4uble, who, like no other politician, stands for German arrogance and a ruthless cuts policy in the interest of the rich, and who has ruined the lives of millions, wants to ensure that this course continues after his departure as finance minister. And he is finding much support for this.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Sch\u00e4uble met with the finance ministers of the euro zone in Luxembourg, and on Wednesday he attended the anniversary of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, where, alongside ministers and central bank officials from 189 member states, many powerful figures from the banking and financial sectors meet. Two press conferences, as well as numerous bilateral meetings are planned.<\/p>\n<p>In Luxembourg, Sch\u00e4uble was praised in the highest tones by his 18 colleagues. \u201cWe will miss him,\u201d said Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem. \u201cHe was a great colleague for each of us, he gave advice, sometimes asked for, sometimes unasked for. He has always put the long-term interests of a stable Eurozone in first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan described Sch\u00e4uble as a \u201cgreat finance minister\u201d. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called him \u201ca great European\u201d, who had \u201cplayed a major role in the development&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/12\/sch%C3%A4-o12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sch\u00e4uble calls for the continuation of austerity policies in Germany and Europe By Peter Schwarz 12 October 2017 German Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble is using his last days in office to call for his austerity policies to be made permanent. The 75-year-old Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician is set to resign in the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}