After four years of the violent attack on Eurocitizens by what can be called the troika dictatorship for short, that is the imposition of inhuman austerity causing soaring unemployment, stagnation of economies at best outright recession at worse at an inhuman cost to health, life expectancy, incomes being pushed to below subsistence levels and so on, the Council of Europe appears to have begun to slowly wake up.

There has been an announcement that in its zeal to impose inhuman conditions in order to “reform” economies, they have completely disregarded human rights.

Now the question is, will this be acted on? The troika is not a legal institution. It is an ad hoc arbitrary body that has assumed supranational powers and is answerable to no one. When the admittedly inept PM of Greece goes sniveling to Frau Merkel, all she says is you have to work this out with the troika. But with regard to the EU, the Eurozone and individual member states of both, just who and what is the troika? And furthermore, in this context just who is Frau Merkel?

She is indeed the elected Chancellor of Germany. But that does not make her the overlord of vassal states.

Human rights and labour rights and a great many rights of the people have been wantonly attacked and abolished by this informal arbitrary non body running amok over Europe. People in Greece are dying of cold, hunger, lack of medical attention. Education, that is free education for all citizens is being eroded. And this is only the beginning.

And what for? To “reform” the economy? The only thing that has been achieved in this respect is recession, unemployment, an increase in sovereign debt and a total collapse of consumption.

Excellent work. But that is what comes from giving unfettered power to unelected so called technocrats answerable to no one but, perhaps the leader of another country who is also not answerable to the citizens she has arbitrarily imposed this destructive policy on.

If this is the current face of Europe, not only is it ugly, it is cruel, savage and in the end untenable and something we should all be deeply ashamed of having let happen.