Even Jacques Delors says it's a mess

[centurian]

If a building architect designs something which he knows will fall down if it is built on marshland instead of clay - and then the building contractor says "okay, we're going to build this thing on marshland" - the architect should be shouting his objections from the rooftops.

That JD knew it was a flawed implementation - and did nothing about it - leaves him just as culpible.

[OwlHoot]

He is not wrong - WTO was big mistake, only good for short term corp profits but that stopped working that well: when your own fellow citizens are out of jobs they can't afford to buy expensive goods made in cheap labour countries.

Maybe, but it's impossible to stop - There are too many channels direct and otherwise for wealth to flow to the Third World.

[Chantho]

Jacques Delors interview: Euro would still be strong if it had been built to my plan - Telegraph

He also seems to think globalization threatens our way of life.

He is miffed that he wasn't given credit for the single currency.

At the time I remember suggesting it should be called the DeLorean in honour of Jacques.

[gingerjedi]

He is not wrong - WTO was big mistake, only good for short term corp profits but that stopped working that well: when your own fellow citizens are out of jobs they can't afford to buy expensive goods made in cheap labour countries.

WHS^

Add unafordable housing and cheap foreign labour distorting the market and we're fecked.

The sad thing is it was obvious this would happen but corps carried on for short term gain.

[AtW]

He also seems to think globalization threatens our way of life.

He is not wrong - WTO was big mistake, only good for short term corp profits but that stopped working that well: when your own fellow citizens are out of jobs they can't afford to buy expensive goods made in cheap labour countries.

[CheeseSlice]

What a sleazeball, worming his way out of this.
He's sewing the seeds early that it wasn't his fault, so the angry mob who just lost all their savings and pension will go after somebody else with their burning torches and pitchforks.

I saw this cartoon today that pretty much sums up the Euro.

[doodab]

Jacques Delors interview: Euro would still be strong if it had been built to my plan - Telegraph

He also seems to think globalization threatens our way of life.

Jacques Delors is a master of all the technicalities of the argument, and all the Byzantine structures of the institutions, and speaks confidently in their jargon, but his mind seems burdened by deeper thoughts, too. He sees the crisis of the euro as part of something deeper and wider even than the credit crunch itself. He believes that the main social and economic “players” have their doubts about European policies.
“You hear it every day. You hear it in the markets. This is reinforced by populism in certain countries. Whether we like it or not, we are part of the West, and the West could possibly lose its leadership, and it is important that we preserve the values that matter not only to Europe, but to Britain and the United States — the values that are Judeo-Christian in origin — Greek philosophy and Greek democracy and Roman law, and the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution.”
Yet obviously, at the same time, we cannot “tell the President of China what to do. Other peoples want to preserve their values, and we want to preserve ours. This is the great challenge.”
So the crisis of the euro is all part of a crisis of the Western way of doing things? “Oui, c’est ça.”