EF's referendum on the EU.

[grantr37]

oh...........ok

 

[Octopus]

Maybe Ed Milliband needs to read this thread and then reconsider his "no to a referendum" statement on Wednesday"

That said he's such a kid, lord knows what would happen if that millionaire gets to be PM

 

[Vegelen]

high unemployent at over 50% for young adults in spain is mainly well educated and skilled people ... now germany is encouraging them to influx into germany and giving them german lessons to work there uhmmm! its nice to pick and choose your immigration so you only attract well educated and skilled work force this is a country trying to build a protective wall of skilled industry

Excerpt from a recent currency traders report:

"Even though the Eurozone-wide results still showed output decreasing, the important thing for traders was that the figure was moving in the right direction, which added weight to the recent spate of claims that the worst of the debt crisis is over. Having said that the gap between the German and French, the 17-nation bloc’s largest and second largest, economies stretched to an unprecedented level, suggesting that more needs to be done to balance out labour market competitiveness, even in the Eurozone’s inner-most core."

So to reiterate my point. If you have a single currency with one set of interest rates, set by a European institution largely influenced by Germany and France, the variable european wide interest rates will benefit one country more than another, as many countries will be at different stages in the economic cycle.
The above report is saying a number of things we've been saying in this forum.
The German economy is outperforming all others including France and the difference between the 2 economies is growing. Unemployed workers are flowing towards the more successful economies with employment, creating a larger economic gap between the haves and the have nots.
Fortune favours the most powerful, not the brave.

 

[grantr37]

Thought I better delete my post as I just saw 3 plod coming this way with the wrong uniform and a dodgy spelling mistake on the car...said polezie on it......think they have gone away now....

 

[telectrix]

and that adolph merkel don't help any, either.

 

[Octopus]

Excerpt from a recent currency traders report:

"Even though the Eurozone-wide results still showed output decreasing, the important thing for traders was that the figure was moving in the right direction, which added weight to the recent spate of claims that the worst of the debt crisis is over. Having said that the gap between the German and French, the 17-nation bloc’s largest and second largest, economies stretched to an unprecedented level, suggesting that more needs to be done to balance out labour market competitiveness, even in the Eurozone’s inner-most core."

So to reiterate my point. If you have a single currency with one set of interest rates, set by a European institution largely influenced by Germany and France, the variable european wide interest rates will benefit one country more than another, as many countries will be at different stages in the economic cycle.
The above report is saying a number of things we've been saying in this forum.
The German economy is outperforming all others including France and the difference between the 2 economies is growing. Unemployed workers are flowing towards the more successful economies with employment, creating a larger economic gap between the haves and the have nots.
Fortune favours the most powerful, not the brave.

So the Germans continue to benefit from the "weaker" Euro. If they still had their own currency their exports would be more expensive.

The Euro continues to help the strong and hinder the poor. Not sure this is what was intended.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

It costs us a fortune, and we end up with all the s*** coming here, we are the mugs of europe, if the dross from other countries thought any different they would stop at another country and not come here, although i do understand why they try to get out of France. It is time we put up the "CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE" sign up.

Cheers...........Howard

 

[Vegelen]

and that adolph merkel don't help any, either.

Telectrix don't you mean Adolph "Hermann Goering" Merkel....?:shocked:::

---- loot: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office rug part of collection of treasures stolen by Herman Goering | Mail Online

 

[PEM]

10000% out.

 

[PEM]

Oh and can we invade France? No reason just think we should.

 

[MDJ]

your not a girl are you? and your username is PMT not PEM, LMAO

 

[Vegelen]

The EU parliment reminds me of a group of people on a bar crawl, with the collective obliged to buy drinks.
In the end you end up buying more than you consume, left with a sinking feeling / empty wallet realising you've been taken advantage of.
Instinct telling you not to repeat the same mistake again.
Until the process repeats itself the following week - followed by an even greater sense of regret.
Until the day you mature and gain the strength to say "No more follow my leader" - its time to go it alone.

 

[Octopus]

The EU parliment reminds me of a group of people on a bar crawl, with the collective obliged to buy drinks.
In the end you end up buying more than you consume, left with a sinking feeling / empty wallet realising you've been taken advantage of.
Instinct telling you not to repeat the same mistake again.
Until the process repeats itself the following week - followed by an even greater sense of regret.
Until the day you mature and gain the strength to say "No more follow my leader" - its time to go it alone.

its called socialism, that is what the aim of the EU is. Rich get shafted for ever

 

[Vegelen]

its called socialism, that is what the aim of the EU is. Rich get shafted for ever

Ironically, its the poor that eventually get burnt the most in the land of Socialism "Tax and Spend".

 

[telectrix]

its called socialism, that is what the aim of the EU is. Rich get shafted for ever

don't see many of these rich eurocrats being shafted. bloody parasites.