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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch – 20. November | 93 comments (93 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Not economically it isn't (4.00 / 3)

In Spain--where unemployment fell to its lowest level since 1979 in the third quarter of this year--construction companies building up the coasts are doing so well that they now account for 12 percent of the economy.

The overdevelopment of the seaside is an upside?

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 03:21:25 AM EST
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Re: Not economically it isn't (none / 1)

Ha. Come to South Florida sometime.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 03:37:06 AM EST
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Re: Not economically it isn't (4.00 / 2)

Spain and Florida as retirement havens -- something in common there.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 08:34:11 AM EST
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Re: Not economically it isn't (none / 1)

Can't speak for that, but

unemployment fell to its lowest level since 1979 in the third quarter of this year

strikes me as an upside.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 03:40:36 AM EST
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Re: Not economically it isn't (4.00 / 2)

Spain's construction industry is "doing so well" that it has made Spain a poster boy for local government corruption, to the point that when Putin got into a spat with Borrell at the "informal EU summit" a few weeks ago he used it as an example of why the EU couldn't lecture Russia on corruption.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 03:46:31 AM EST
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Corruption (4.00 / 2)

Not to deny a problem, but you rightly pointed out then that we knew about corruption in Spain because people were actually being put to jail for it - something that rather contradicted the "we're no worse than you wrt rule of law" point that Putin was pretending to make.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 04:06:48 AM EST
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Re: Corruption (none / 1)

People are being put into jail for corruption in Russia, it's just that WSJ and FT don't write about it. Perseptions, perseptions...

by Sargon on Mon Nov 20th, 2006 at 12:19:49 PM EST
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