Globalisation, protection and protectionism

The focus to make globalization acceptable should be on: - fighting growing inequalities, poverty and social hardship; - redistributive policies through progressive taxation, support to revenues and social safety nets; - the conduct and financing of these policies at the EU level by countries which want to move towards an ever closer integration; - the revision of pro-cyclical policies which have prolonged the crisis, and the promotion of active labour market policies with employment services and training suitable to productive change; - the establishment, in front of huge national public debts, of a spending capability (or common budget) in the Eurozone to support substantial public investment policies in infrastructures, knowledge, research and education, with own resources and full democratic legitimacy, supporting growth by increasing internal demand and improving productivity with the view of achieving shared prosperity; - fiscal harmonisation policies in Europe and beyond to avoid elusion, especially by transnational companies, and reduce fiscal evasion. - a European common foreign policy, with a common defence component, aiming at contributing to stabilization and sustainable development especially in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa, also for an appropriate management of migration flows; - management of such migrations at the European level with policies properly financed to support sustainable and inclusive development in origin and transit countries, fight against human trafficking, and establishment of legal channels of immigration, common management of asylum, hospitality and integration - proceeding in Europe towards an ever closer union and a federal perspective by countries which want it; - regulation of financial markets in order to channel resources towards the real economy. - full implementation and improvement at the international, European, national and local levels, in territorial and urban planning and in energy policies of the commitments agreed upon at the Paris Conference on climate change and contained in the sustainable development goals of the 2030 UN Agenda - the end of further consumption of agricultural soil and forestry and the development of green economy.