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Martin Varsavsky´s Ruminations: Spanish health system: good and broke

The Spanish national health system is good and free. The German health system is good but it is not free. Spain is broke. If it wasn’t for EU which is mostly Germany funded, Spain would have gone bankrupt 2 years ago. It would have had the biggest default in history. And it may still default. In…

La respuesta de @martinvars al nefasto artículo de hoy de @el_pais

Reblogged 5 months ago from martinvarsavsky

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Spain, health system, Germany,

How costly would be the PIGS exit from the Euro for Germany, Europe and the World? #LET #tlot.

Source of the images and the full article (in German) here.

Posted 7 months ago

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PIGS, Euro, Germany, GDP, Portugal., Spain, Greece, Italy,

Johannes Ponader, Politic Director of German Pirate Party, defending the Universal Basic Income, for everybody and forever.

Are you still surprised why in the last elections in Nordrhein-Westfalen the main source of the votes for Pirate Party came from “die Linke”, the communist party, heir from former German DDR?

Of course the discussion only boosts the laughs from the members of the audience.

Posted 1 year ago

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Piraten, Universal Basic Income, Germany,

Two brilliant answers by Christian Lindner to FAZ

FAZ: Während Sie um den Wiedereinzug in den Landtag zittern, triumphieren die Piraten. Sind das die neuen Liberalen?
C. Lindner: Da gibt es Überschneidungen, etwa bei den Bürgerrechten oder der Bürgerbeteiligung. Ansonsten verstehen viele Piraten unter Freiheit leider vor allem Kostenfreiheit. Der Staat soll alles gratis zur Verfügung stellen - vom öffentlichen Nahverkehr über Laptops und W-Lan bis zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen. Das klingt eher nach Linkspartei mit Internetanschluss als nach Liberalismus.
FAZ: Sie sind mit einer New-Economy-Firma gescheitert und als Generalsekretär der FDP in Berlin.
C. Lindner: Man entwickelt sich als Mensch weiter, wenn man nicht nur Siege feiert. Als Selbständiger war ich von 1997 bis 2004 erfolgreich, 2001 war ein Internet-Projekt nicht erfolgreich. Erfahrungen außerhalb der Politik finde ich wichtig. Meinen Rücktritt als Generalsekretär betrachte ich aber ausdrücklich nicht als Niederlage. Das war meine Entscheidung.

Posted 1 year ago

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FDP, NRW12, Piraten, Liberalen, Germany,

Look, look how the “pacific” leftist students behave here in Germany (Berlin). That will sound familiar to my Spanish colleagues. Among other things they have destroyed an Exhibition on Jewish Entrepreneurs in the 3rd Reich. Fascist, fascist, damn fascist.

Posted 1 year ago

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Fascism, communism, young bastards, Germany,

Useful web to monitor the train delays in Germany

My brother passes to me this useful website to monitor all the train timings and delays in Germany. Pretty useful for those who move a lot in trains.

Posted 1 year ago

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trains, Germany, delays,

“Don’t worry, Germans will pay the bill”. Cartoon in FAZ yesterday after #EU Summit.

Via @openeurope

Posted 1 year ago

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EU, Germany, PIIGS,

Five questions to German citizens about the Euro crisis, and their opinion:

Do you still trust in our politics for the rescue of Euro?
Are you satisfied with Merkel´s fight for the Euro?
Do you trust Merkel for the Euro crisis?
Should the citizens decide over further Euro bailouts?
Do we pay too much for the Euro rescue?

Source N-TV.

Posted 1 year ago

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euro, germany, survey,

Finnish - German deal about Greece

In accordance with my Finnish colleague, Germany is going to have lots of difficulties to change the position of Finland with regards to the Greek guarantees for the next bailout.

There has been a huge transfer of votes from the Socialist Party to the “new” Finnish populist party “True Finns”, mainly from the popular low class. And the finance minister belongs to the socialist party (there is a coallition in Finnish government among several parties, including both main ones, conservatives and socialists, to avoid the True Finns). Hence, to be flexible with Europe at this point would probably kill the socialist party for the benefit of the populists (finnish people is against the bailouts, mainly among low class people).

This is why Finland is adopting this strong position with regards o Greece. Will we see the Partenon in Helsinki?

Posted 1 year ago

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Finland, Greece, Euro, bailout, Germany, populism, European Union,