PThorton

Plenty other people richer than that.

They cannot let russia keep full access to the sea and Ukraine surrounded on 3 sides. Any agreement that doesn’t involve a complete defanging of russia and full recapture of Crimea would just set the stage for another invasion once russia has built up its forces anew.

This is madness

The EU should enforce antitrust more stringently rather than remove even more of the few tools european governments have to rein in monopolies (like google, amazon, facebook & co)

Saying “Control” here is equivalent to saying that Ford controls all the ford cars in Europe because it made them. There isn’t a kill switch in chinese solar panels china can just use to shut down the EU grid.

Of all the things they should be fighting her they choose this? The EU truly is a neoliberal dumpster right now

Draghi is arguing for unbridled deregulation and monopolies. Not exactly a very encouraging position either

He is still a far-right, populist politician too

And the EU is squandering it. The omnibus & EPP alliance with the fascists proves it. The EU inability to agree on an effective industrial policy,underinvestment in electrification (still talking about the 2035 ban while Germany industry is collapsing), no common debt, no unanimity reform.Just talks

You’re doing nothing. After letting the omnibus pass, destroying all the EU has been working on for the past 4y, you did nothing. The only acceptable course for the S&D was to formally state it won’t vote for ANY other EPP initiative & try to bring down the VdL commission. You did nothing instead…

Pathetic

Why do western magazines and journalists keep reporting the bogus chinese growth stats if they are all pretty sure those are fake?

And the EU is still just bending over backwards to please china. They stole all of our tech (and western corporations pushed for that so they could get higher cheap labor and profit margins at the cost of selling out their respective country’s strategic interests)

Well what are you doing about it? What about the next part of the EPP plan which entails giving away our privacy to boost American AI companies and trashing the GDPR? Make it clear s&d will not vote for anything else by the EPP if this passes. Try to bring down the vdl commission. Do something!

Just depressing news after depressing news. And the S&D is doing nothing. They could at least state they will not vote for anything with the EPP anymore is this passes. Try to bring down the VdL commission. Do whatever it takes to stop this social and economic self-flagellation.

How do you avoid them if they are in all the main indexes? Buy individual stocks?

Is this government lending or private lending? Cause if it’s private then it might just be wealthy chinese/corporation trying to get their money out of china and into more remunerative capital markets.

How can turkey afford the transition but not most of the EU?

This is a disaster. How can germany be doing worse than china and Uruguay? Full EV sales only in the 2040s??

They did lose the election

They are selling their country off to enrich themselves. That was the same premise of neoliberalism. Western firms get cheap labor in china in exchange for giving away all their tech and IP rights so they can get higher profit margins for their capitalist owners.

You are betraying the alliance your own political party formed last june to side instead with orban, salvin, le pen. That you do not feel ashamed over tearing apart the foundations of the EU is revolting. Spare us the red tape bullshit

And what will s&d do? They do nothing and let fascism walk

Disgusting traitors. The unholy unions between corporations/wealthy people and fascism remains unbroken

Deindustrialize in what? A fully service economy?

Which means taxation of the billionaires & redistribution of wealth from the top. It always comes back to that and it’s why we are stuck, cause those people have no intention of letting go of their wealth and most politicians are in their pockets or fear them (case in point german auto dynasties)

It’s not that governments in the west thought they could compete, but that rich people forced politicians to open up trade with china (russia) so that they could get cheap labor and resell their goods in the west at higher margins. billionaires sold their governments’ strategic interests for money

Correct me if i’m wrong, but my understanding is that the current geopolitical/economic situation is due to western billionaires wanting cheap labor & gas to extract higher profit margins on products sold in the west. And they traded their own countries’ national interests, security and tech for it.

Ofc they did, china had 2 years to steal every single technology german companies had developed. And all so that a few german billionaire families could get even richer from cheap chinese labor.

But the lesson here should be to first massively tax those you got rich in the past 40 years. Tax them until there are no longer any billionaires and limit lobbying spending while you are at it