Recent content by clark85

THey are not actually able to gather enough votes for seccession, are they?

True that is the biggest weakness of the Euro. This story has two sides as well. Economically weaker countries like Greece or Portugal will not have the opportunity to devaluate their currency and thus willl stay economically weaker. Other countries like Germany, France and Italy with a strong...

I am, at least most of the time.

I think there are great books in all of those areas, but I mostly tend to prefer non-fictional books of all kinds. As I said, a good novel is always worth a read though.

They should neither leave the Euro nor the Euroean Union. Both pretty bad ideas, economically and politically.

Very interesting numbers. Even though not all of those countries are part of the EU there are still huge numbers of people moving to other countries. The number of Italian people moving through the EU seems quite impressive.

I don't believe Chinas rise is a threat to our living standarts, it rather helps us to maintain them. If you have a look at the statistics the development seems even more impressive. Also we should not forget that chinese demand on our goods is fueling our growth in these economic unstable...

Interesting thought. Making it legal in all European countries would be an idea. You could generate profits from official businesses and taxes, actually help those people very addicted (as with alcohol) better and controll those who just rarely use it. But the political chances for this to...

That's not entirely true. Germany has a fixed minimum wage in many sectors, which is negotiated between workers unions and employers. Those minimum wages usually then cover the whole industrie. Thus there are quite a lot of workers secured by a minimum wage in Germany. The sectors not covered...

Greece, Cyprus & Turkey would be my favorite. People are just slighty different to northern europe. The culturual sites go back thousands of years and there are plenty of them and the weather is great of course!