Posted on 04/10/2017 1:06:49 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The eurozone’s top official said “fatigue may have played a role” for comments he made last month that unleashed a storm of criticism across southern Europe.
In an interview with Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, published Monday, Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the scale of the backlash made it look like “I committed a war crime.”
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Full title: Outrage After Eurozone Top Official Accuses Southern Europe Nations of Wasting Money on ‘Liquor and Women’
I’d say that’s a pretty good use of money.
“Eurozone Top Official Accuses Southern Europe Nations of Wasting Money on ‘Liquor and Women’”
As opposed to wasting money subsidizing unassimilated immigrants?
They left out cheap cigarettes.
The women are certainly happy.
Yeah, since when is that a waste of money?
The basic problem is that Southern Europe and Northern Europe do not belong on the same currency.
They don’t have to insult each other, but they should learn the recognize that it does not work. The Southern European economies need to be able to devalue their currencies while their governments go bankrupt.
nah, it’s better for the big banker boys to just keep giving them billion euro loans each year. I mean it’s only money right?
GUILTY AS CHARGED HERE!!!! :)
If Germany & France were not on their socialist agenda for the EU, that they are holding themselves responsible for saving “southern Europe” (and Eastern Europe now) from themselves, and putting those nations on the EU industrial development plantation society rules and regs, southern Europe would have just flipped the bird at the fellow. But instead they saw the elite contempt that many norther European’s actually hold for them.
Several years ago, a colourful local ne’er-do-well won a few million in a lottery. A few years later, it was all gone. When reporters asked what happened to it, he replied (paraphrasing): I spent most of it on booze, women and gambling. The rest, I just wasted.
Its a pretty good use of your OWN money but not tax money.
They think it is their money.
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