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‘The EU Is on the Verge of Collapse’—An Interview

 

George Soros and Gregor Peter Schmitz   FEBRUARY 11, 2016 ISSUE

 

 

The following is a revised version of an interview between George Soros and Gregor Peter Schmitz of the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

 

 

Gregor Peter Schmitz: When Time put German Chancellor Angela Merkel on its cover, it called her the “Chancellor of the Free World.” Do you think that is justified?

George Soros: Yes. As you know, I have been critical of the chancellor in the past and I remain very critical of her austerity policy. But after Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine, she became the leader of the European Union and therefore, indirectly, of the Free World. Until then, she was a gifted politician who could read the mood of the public and cater to it. But in resisting Russian aggression, she became a leader who stuck her neck out in opposition to prevailing opinion.

She was perhaps even more farsighted when she recognized that the migration crisis had the potential to destroy the European Union, first by causing a breakdown of the Schengen system of open borders and, eventually, by undermining the common market. She took a bold initiative to change the attitude of the public. Unfortunately, the plan was not properly prepared. The crisis is far from resolved and her leadership position—not only in Europe but also in Germany and even in her own party—is under attack.

 

Schmitz: Merkel used to be very cautious and deliberate. People could trust her. But in the migration crisis, she acted impulsively and took a big risk. Her leadership style has changed and that makes people nervous.

Soros: That’s true, but I welcome the change. There is plenty to be nervous about. As she correctly predicted, the EU is on the verge of collapse. The Greek crisis taught the European authorities the art of muddling through one crisis after another. This practice is popularly known as kicking the can down the road, although it would be more accurate to describe it as kicking a ball uphill so that it keeps rolling back down. The EU now is confronted with not one but five or six crises at the same time.

 

Schmitz: To be specific, are you referring to Greece, Russia, Ukraine, the coming British referendum, and the migration crisis?

Soros: Yes. And you haven’t even mentioned the root cause of the migration crisis: the conflict in Syria. Nor have you mentioned the unfortunate effect that the terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere have had on European public opinion.

Merkel correctly foresaw the potential of the migration crisis to destroy the European Union. What was a prediction has become the reality. The European Union badly needs fixing. This is a fact but it is not irreversible. And the people who can stop Merkel’s dire prediction from coming true are actually the German people. I think the Germans, under the leadership of Merkel, have achieved a position of hegemony. But they achieved it very cheaply. Normally hegemons have to look out not only for their own interests, but also for the interests of those who are under their protection. Now it’s time for Germans to decide: Do they want to accept the responsibilities and the liabilities involved in being the dominant power in Europe?

 

Schmitz: Would you say that Merkel’s leadership in the refugee crisis is different from her leadership in the euro crisis? Do you think she’s more willing to become a benevolent hegemon?

Soros: That would be asking too much. I have no reason to change my critical views on her leadership in the euro crisis. Europe could have used the kind of leadership she is showing now much earlier. It is unfortunate that when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in 2008, she was not willing to allow the rescue of the European banking system to be guaranteed on a Europe-wide basis because she felt that the prevailing German public opinion would be opposed to it. If she had tried to change public opinion instead of following it, the tragedy of the European Union could have been avoided.

 

Schmitz: But she wouldn’t have remained chancellor of Germany for ten years.

Soros: You are right. She was very good at satisfying the requirements and aspirations of a broad range of the German public. She had the support of both those who wanted to be good Europeans and those who wanted her to protect German national interest. That was no mean feat. She was reelected with an increased majority. But in the case of the migration issue, she did act on principle, and she was willing to risk her leadership position. She deserves the support of those who share her principles.

I take this very personally. I am a strong supporter of the values and principles of an open society because of my personal history, surviving the Holocaust as a Jew under the Nazi occupation of Hungary. And I believe that she shares those values because of her personal history, growing up under Communist rule in East Germany under the influence of her father, who was a pastor. That makes me her supporter although we disagree on a number of important issues.

 

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HANS-WERNER SINN

JAN 26, 2016

Immigration into the Welfare State

 

MUNICH – The armed conflict destabilizing some Arab countries has unleashed a huge wave of refugees headed for Europe. About 1.1 million came to Germany alone in 2015. At the same time, the adoption of the principle of freedom of movement within Europe has triggered massive, but largely unnoticed, intra-European migration flows. In 2014, Germany experienced an unprecedented net inflow of 304,000 people from other EU countries, and the number was probably similar in 2015.

 

Some EU members, including Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain, France, and the initially welcoming Denmark and Sweden, have reacted by practically suspending the Schengen Agreement and reinstating border controls. Economists are not really surprised at this. In the 1990s, dozens of academic papers addressed the issue of migration into welfare states, discussing many of the problems that are now becoming apparent. I myself wrote much on the subject at the time, trying – mostly in vain – to raise awareness among policymakers.

 

A fundamental issue is at stake. Welfare states are defined by the principle that those who enjoy above-average income pay more taxes and contributions than what they get back in the form of public services, while those with below-average earnings pay less than they receive. This redistribution, channeling net public resources toward lower-income households, is a sensible correction to the market economy, a kind of insurance against life’s vicissitudes and the rigors of scarcity pricing that characterize the market economy and have little to do with equitableness.

 

Welfare states are fundamentally incompatible with the free movement of people between countries if the newcomers have immediate and full access to public benefits in their host countries. In such cases, countries can act as welfare magnets, attracting many more migrants than would be economically advisable, because the newcomers receive, in addition to their wages, a migration grant in the form of public transfers. Only if migrants received only wages could efficient self-regulation in migration be expected.

 

British Prime Minister David Cameron drew the right conclusion from this: Welfare magnetism not only leads to an inefficient geographical distribution of people; it also erodes and damages the magnet. That’s why Cameron is demanding a limitation of the inclusion principle, even for intra-European economic migrants. Even if they find a job, says Cameron, migrants should get access to tax-financed welfare benefits only after four years. As it stands, a substantial waiting period is in force only for non-working EU migrants, who must be resident in the United Kingdom for five years to gain full access to public benefits.

 

The proposal does not necessarily imply hardship for EU migrants; it simply means that any support they may require over the four-year period is to be financed by their home country. There is indeed much to be said for frontloading the home-country principle in EU rules: a migrant’s country of origin should continue to be responsible for providing social benefits for a certain number of years, until the inclusion principle is applied.

 

It is difficult to see why, for example, a German welfare recipient who is unfit for work should be supported by the Spanish state if he decides to live in Mallorca. It would be equally implausible to deny this person the right to choose his place of abode just to protect the Spanish state. If we are to take the free movement of people seriously, we should slaughter the sacred cow of immediate eligibility for host-state benefits.

 

This of course does not apply to economic migrants from non-EU countries, and even less to refugees. The home-country principle would usually be impossible to apply in these cases. But, for the same reasons outlined above, these migrants cannot be integrated by the hundreds of thousands into the welfare state without jeopardizing the system’s viability.

 

Therefore, the currently prevailing wage-replacement benefit system, which is applied when recipients do not work, should be replaced with a system offering wage supplements and community work. This would lower the benefits’ net costs and weaken incentives to migrate. Andrea Nahles, Germany’s labor minister, recently suggested as much, defending what Germans call the one-euro-jobs concept, which basically converts welfare into a wage.

 

That is sound advice in an otherwise chaotic state of affairs. If freedom of movement within Europe is to be maintained – and if high inflows of non-EU citizens continue – European welfare states face a stark choice: adjust or collapse.

 

U medjuvremenu, Grcka opet na tapetu, a ministri se lepo druze.

 

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He (Yiannis Mouzalas, the Greek Migration Minister) also told BBC Newsnight that Belgium had told his country to "push" migrants "back in the sea" as a solution to the crisis.

However, Belgian Migration Minister Theo Francken condemned the claims, calling them "grotesque and very regrettable".

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It is difficult to see why, for example, a German welfare recipient who is unfit for work should be supported by the Spanish state if he decides to live in Mallorca. It would be equally implausible to deny this person the right to choose his place of abode just to protect the Spanish state. If we are to take the free movement of people seriously, we should slaughter the sacred cow of immediate eligibility for host-state benefits.

 

A da oni što skorije raspišu referendum, bolje da ne čekaju 2017-tu. Gorak je ukus fallen empire-a.

  On 27. 1. 2016. at 20:41, Tribun_Populi said:

A da oni što skorije raspišu referendum, bolje da ne čekaju 2017-tu. Gorak je ukus fallen empire-a.

 

Treba i ako se neko stariji od 65 doseili u Nemačku, odmah i nemačku penziju da mu daju.

Meanwhile, u Bohemiji

 

PIRATE PARTY PROSECUTED FOR OPERATING A PIRATE SITE
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After deliberately provoking authorities with the launch of several pirate sites, the Czech Pirate Party have welcomed the news that they're finally being prosecuted by the police. "Our goal is to change the copyright monopoly law so that people are not fined millions for sharing culture with their friends," the party says.

czech-pp.jpgAs champions of less restrictive copyright law and advocates of greater online freedoms and privacy, the Pirate Party has stamped its mark on the online space in recent years.

As a niche political movement it has often taken a guerrilla approach to its activism, with strategies often designed to provoke a fierce response from perceived enemies.

In July 2011, the Czech division of the party did just that with a brave move designed to stir up sentiments against the Czech Anti-Piracy Union who had targeted a 16-year-old accused of posting links to infringing material on his website

Under the slogan “Linking is not a Crime” the Czech Pirate Party launched its own movie download site. Tipnafilm.cz had an attractive layout with links to content plus movie covers, embedded trailers, and links to reviews on sites such as iMDb. A second site, Piratskefilmy.cz, carried 20,000 links to more than 5,800 movies.

“We challenge the Anti-Piracy Union to stop bullying the under-aged and to aim its preposterous claims at the Pirate Party,” the pirates said.

Declaring “open war” on the anti-piracy outfit, the Czech pirates later launched TV focused site Sledujuserialy.cz (I Watch TV Series). With the previous two sites faded away, it is this site that has finally elicited the response the pirates had long hoped for.

 

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“A landmark political trial for Czech Internet is about to take place!” the party has just announced.

“On Thursday 21st January, the Czech pirate party was officially notified that it will be prosecuted in criminal court. The reason is their long-term political campaign “Linking is Not a Crime” in which the party ran a non-commerical website ‘sledujuserialy.cz’ highlighting an absurd interpretation of copyright monopoly law with regard to the Internet.”

Although it has taken more than four years to come to fruition, it appears the pirates’ plan progressed as predicted. Their taunting of the Czech Anti-Piracy Union resulted in the anti-piracy group filing a complaint with the police. The police are now prosecuting the Pirate Party over their TV piracy site.

Unusually for torrent site operators, the Pirate Party say they are glad they’re in trouble with the law.

“[The Pirate Party] welcomes the criminal case. Until now, the Czech Anti-Piracy Union has targeted only randomly chosen individuals with its bullying. The victims were in an unfair position as they faced expensive lawyers of lobby organisations which push the current repressive copyright monopoly regime. This time it’s different,” Czech Pirate Party chairman Lukáš Černohorský explains.

“Instead of teenagers, copyright industry lobbyists are now dealing with a political party which didn’t run the website for money but because of our conviction that linking is not and should not be a crime.”

The Party says it has been forced to take this action to fight the persecution of linking online, adding that sites including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t face any action for doing the same, even though they operate their sites for-profit.

That being said, it’s unclear how Czech copyright law will draw a line between the party’s hand-curated TV show download site and user-generated content sites like YouTube, but finding out is clearly one of the party’s aims.

“Our goal is to change the copyright monopoly law so that people are not fined millions for sharing culture with their friends. However, until we achieve that, we will fight in courts over interpretation and enforcement of the law,” Černohorský concludes.

The Party says that in the coming days it will call on all organizations who care about the future of the Internet to join them in a massive demonstration against oppressive copyright regimes and recent proposals for increased online censorship and surveillance.

Pirate parties have a long history of supporting pirate sites, particularly The Pirate Bay.

At times the Swedish Pirate Party famously hosted parts of The Pirate Bay’s infrastructure which put them on a collision course with authorities there. Over in the UK, the local Pirate party was threatened with a lawsuit from the music industry after refusing to take down its Pirate Bay proxy service. It eventually complied in December 2012.

Most recently, last year the Norwegian Pirate Party announced its own DNS service to bypass ISP censorship of The Pirate Bay.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-prosecuted-for-operating-a-pirate-site-160125/

Brate mili... Danas na dneviku jedna od udarnih vesti, EU rešila da se ugleda na FBI i napravila sajt EU most wanted

 

Ajd što prvo nije bio dostupan, svi navalili... kad je proradilo, ima se i šta videti...

 

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According to gathered information, the suspect Bojanic f/n Zeljko and other suspects also worked with Austrian national K. T. and an unidentified person with alias »Drug«, or »Mr.X« and other unknown persons in perpetration of drug-related offences in the period from 26.9.2014 to 28.6.2015 in Slovenia, Brazil and Austria. They purchased cocaine and acted as intermediaries in sale and purchase of cocaine. The identified and unidentified suspects acted as an international criminal syndicate, in which they all had clearly defined roles. They were in constant contacts, informing each other and giving each other instructions in perpetration of offences. Bojanic followed instructions given by the unidentified person with aliases »Drug« and »Mr.X«, and met with M. S. and C. N. in Zagreb on 7.9.2014. They agreed to get him a yacht for transportation of cocaine on location they agreed on. They agreed to buy a boat for him outside Europe, with which they later intended to transport cocaine from South America to Europe. Following the meeting C. N., assisted by Z. Z., began recruiting the then source – now undercover agent, to carry out the transport of cocaine to Europe and requested him to purchase an adequate yacht outside Europe on behalf of C. N. On 5.5.2015, between 13.55 hrs and 14.05 hrs, Bojanic met with J.R. at the OMV service station at the address Spodnje Dobrenje 41/a, Pesnica, Slovenia and handed him 3150 EUR, according to instructions of C. N., which he was to give to the undercover agent, who would need it to pay for plane tickets from Fortaleza to Venice and back and for fuel and food and anything else the agent would need to buy in Brazil before he sailed out. R. J. handed the money to the undercover agent on the same day.

 


Bojan Dragicevic and his accomplice Zoran SVITLICA in August 2005, where twice committed robbery of a bank in town Sibenik- Croatia. For commission of this crime,  he was sentenced to a prison on 4 years and 2 months. He was fugitive untill May 2012. when he was arrested in Bosnia and Herzegovina and extradited to Croatia. After the extradition he was sent to prison in Lepoglava the strictest prison in Croatia, where he was placed in the Department of the greatest safety. September  25.  2013., he has escaped from the prison, but he was arrested the same day near the prison. April 30. 2014. he was moved to Pula prison where he was serving a sentence untill  July 28. 2016. August 22. 2014. he was again escape from the prison and he is fugitve.

 

In year 2012 Lindeman stabbed a man.

 

 

Ako su ovi najopasniji i najtraženiji, Evropa je jako bezbedno mesto...

 

Ili je neko uzeo pare od EU i nabrzinu sklepao Drupal sajt... Baš me zanima koliko je koštalo

 

EU je trula.

  On 29. 1. 2016. at 17:03, braca said:

 

 

EU je trula.

Poslednjih nekoliko dana su KGB, ruske TV stanice i Lavrov vodile pravu drzavnu propagandnu kampanju protiv Nemacke.

 

Metod je oproban - sejanje glasina, dezinformacija i poluistina sa ciljem da se sistematski diskredituju nemacki mediji, policija i uopste pravni poredak, spolja i iznutra.

 

Najnoviji primer je bio oko nestale 13-godisnje devojcice za ciji nestanak i silovanje su prvo lazno optuzeni migranti a zatim je Lavrov cak nekoliko puta optuzio i nemacku drzavu da to sistematski tolerise.

 

Dogodile su se naravno i spontane demonstracije oko slucaja, nova nemacka tvrda desnica otvoreno podrzava Putina a pokusaji destabilizacije kontinenta iz Kremlja (i putem bombardovanja u Siriji) postaju sve ocigledniji.

 

Kremlju ocigledno nije dovoljno sto su u ekonomski nezavidnoj situaciji koja relativno brzo moze dovesti do situacije kao 1998. pa dalje doliva vatru. Ako EU uopste zeli da prezivi morace mnogo agresivnije da se obracuna sa putinizmom koji je izjeda iznutra.

  On 30. 1. 2016. at 13:50, Anduril said:

Poslednjih nekoliko dana su KGB,

(...)

:isuse:

 

Mogao si reći i ГПУ ... или још болје ВЧК-а.

  On 30. 1. 2016. at 13:50, Anduril said:

Poslednjih nekoliko dana su KGB, ruske TV stanice i Lavrov vodile pravu drzavnu propagandnu kampanju protiv Nemacke.

 

Metod je oproban - sejanje glasina, dezinformacija i poluistina sa ciljem da se sistematski diskredituju nemacki mediji, policija i uopste pravni poredak, spolja i iznutra.

 

Najnoviji primer je bio oko nestale 13-godisnje devojcice za ciji nestanak i silovanje su prvo lazno optuzeni migranti a zatim je Lavrov cak nekoliko puta optuzio i nemacku drzavu da to sistematski tolerise.

 

Dogodile su se naravno i spontane demonstracije oko slucaja, nova nemacka tvrda desnica otvoreno podrzava Putina a pokusaji destabilizacije kontinenta iz Kremlja (i putem bombardovanja u Siriji) postaju sve ocigledniji.

 

Kremlju ocigledno nije dovoljno sto su u ekonomski nezavidnoj situaciji koja relativno brzo moze dovesti do situacije kao 1998. pa dalje doliva vatru. Ako EU uopste zeli da prezivi morace mnogo agresivnije da se obracuna sa putinizmom koji je izjeda iznutra.

 

Eh da je samo EU, izjeda i Ameriku (Trump)

Civilizacija se mora obračunati sa Putin(izm)om, krajnje je vreme

Davno nije bilo obojene revolucije mozda to upali i ovaj put.

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