Exactly!  

Greece wants for example 500m to build 14 unnecessary new airports.  Germans
win the contract to build airports. Greeks realise there was no point in the
airports and they aren't generating the cash to repay and sell to Fraport
the german airport operator at a knockdown price say 150m.

Net result Greeks now have 14 german run airports and 350m to repay for the
pleasure.  They germans have 500m of EU cash and 14 airport that they will
run at a profit because they bought them cheap and can use economies of
scale to cut costs.



-----Original Message-----
From: Leedslist [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian
Murray
Sent: 08 June 2016 14:12
To: Peter Castlehouse
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LU] NONLU: EU

The answer is they do, but it's kind of illusory because most uk citizens in
the EU are self funded retirees. They do not impact the job market and are a
net gain to the host country, spending their pensions and so on.

In terms of the Greek debate. I get that they ran out of money, but they
couldn't devalue and grow their way out because of the euro. The EU ignored
their breaches of Eurozone fiscal policy because they were buying German
goods on tick.

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> On 8 Jun 2016, at 19:44, Peter Castlehouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I see your point on nearly everything you stated here Naefy, but take 
> exception to this one...
> 
> <snip>
> Hundreds of thousands of Uk residents live in Europe, often retirees, 
> with the attached pressure on the host countries health systems.
> (/snip>
> 
> Question:  Is it really the case in other EU countries that these retirees
> enjoy the luxury of free healthcare?   I doubt that very much, but I am
> completely ignorant of the state of play as far as that is concerned.
> Australia does NOT provide free healthcare for foreign visitors, much 
> the same as USA, but with less debilitating rules or jail time for 
> defaulters :)
> 
> Pete
> original post deleted for bandwidth conservancy because I think that 
> as a result I am saving a frog that lives in a tree - and everybody 
> wants to save a tree, right?
> 
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