That the power of the national parliaments is being hollowed out by the European Commission? i That before the Irish government announced the major austerity measures, she first had a secret meeting with big business and the banks? And that the banks won? ii That even Merkel admitted that we are living under the dictatorship… Read more »
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That one out of five employees in Germany only makes 4 to 6 Euros an hour? In the rest of Europe that is one out of six, in Sweden only 3%. i That 35% of the vacancies in the German labour market are temporary jobs, and that in Western Germany only half the employees work… Read more »
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That the richest Greeks parked about 600 billion Euros on Swiss bank accounts? That is almost twice the amount of the Greek debt… i That the super rich Greek evade about 30 billion Euros in taxes yearly. That’s more than enough to pay for the yearly debt and to end the crisis. ii That the… Read more »
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That austerity is a bad medicine and that it only worsens the crisis? Even the IMF says so. i That the industrialisation rate in France dropped with 10% since 2008, in Spain with 22%, and in Italy with a whopping 25%? ii 1 2 That Europe today is retaking the exact same disastrous course it… Read more »
The power of the financial lobby
In this startling documentary, WDR TV reports the impact of financial lobbyists in the EU institutions. (German with English subtitles)
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That the banks have become uncontrollable? They are controlling almost the entire derivate market, good for 600,000 billion dollar. That is forty times the world trade in products and services or the equivalent of almost ten years of economic world output or almost 100,000 dollar per inhabitant of the planet. i That the 23 biggest… Read more »