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The EU is learning a painful lesson: that its cosy consensus world of officialdom, diplomacy and contempt for voters, is not up to the mark when dealing with a full blown crisis.

Where does contempt for voters come into the picture? I don't think any of the national governments that tried, and without exception failed, to deal with the crisis have shown much interst in voters -- more interest in CEOs.

The last two weeks have shown that the EU is better at puffing up fears ... than it is at dealing with a concrete problem...

So you claim environmental perils aren't concrete problems. Nice inversion of what is real and what is illusory. Methinks climate change or deforestation or plagues are much bigger bigger problems than the one hitting the virtual economy.

...and you go downhill from there. Spin, spin, spin, and stale at that.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 12:55:59 PM EST
They should showing interest in voters not CEOs
by Bruno Waterfield (brunowaterfield(at)gmail(dot)com) on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 07:03:42 AM EST
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On the other hand: what exactly do voters want to be done about the financial crisis? Other than guarantees on their deposits, which many European governments did extend (IIRC starting with the Irish)?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 07:12:03 AM EST
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I think, especially if we tip into a recession, some sanswers to bigger questions
by Bruno Waterfield (brunowaterfield(at)gmail(dot)com) on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 12:27:33 PM EST
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