Not sure I should be dipping a toe into this, but whilst Greece certainly has benefitted, it was all built on the ridiculous assumption they had a chance of belonging in economic terms. The people benefitted for a while, and some did very well, but at what long term cost to 'ordinary' greeks?
I'm very much a Remain supporter, but with the caveat that following the vote we should begin a reform process of the EU which will take yonks etc, because of the self interests of all countries. Some common-sense has to be brought to bear - mind you, it'll take a batallion of Yorkshire plain speaking to cut through the bull! Sent from my iPad On 8 Jun 2016, at 14:29, Richard Naef <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. > > unneccesary? how else would all the German's fly to the islands for their > holidays? The airports will probably be run efficiently and employ local > people at reasonable rates with all the enshrined EU workers benefits. it's > not like the German's can pack the airports up and move them to Sudetenland > is it. > > It's the same with our car industry, There aren't any significant British > owned car companies, but we make almost as many cars as we ever has and > export more! thanks to the Germans and Indians investing in us, they've > received lots of British government money as well. I don't deny that the > Germans have done well out of the EU, but I honestly believe that isn't > their guiding principle, they certainly didn't allow Greece in just to get a > few airports, but to increase trade and as they are a brilliant trading > nation they have done well. But Greece also benefited from increased > tourism and inward investment. > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
