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ECB: Crisis nations have lost their sovereignty
The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Sunday threw his weight behind a German scheme to allow the EU to intervene in countries' budgets and propose changes before they are agreed in parliaments.
The EU should have the power to police and interfere in member states' national budgets, Mario Draghi told Der Spiegel magazine in an interview due to be published on Monday, saying he “completely supported” the suggestion by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble to give more autonomy to the EU's economic and monetary affairs commissioner.
“I am certain, if we want to restore confidence in the eurozone, countries will have to transfer part of their sovereignty to the European level,” Draghi told the magazine, demanding a more concerted push for European integration.
"Several governments have not yet understood that they lost their national sovereignty long ago. Because they ran up huge debts in the past, they are now dependent on the goodwill of the financial markets," Draghi said.
Since the outbreak of the eurozone debt crisis three years ago, the European Union has taken unprecedented measures, including creating a fiscal treaty between them, setting up a huge joint bailout pot and moving towards a banking union next year.
“Governments have taken steps that would have been unthinkable a year ago. That is progress but it is not enough,” Draghi said.
Source and full story: The Local (Germany), 28 Oct 2012
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Re: ECB: Crisis nations have lost their sovereignty
No shit sherlock! If governments haven't understood this, their citizenry certainly has.
Vaffanculo Draghi, stronzo di merda. Va' al diavolo.
Re: ECB: Crisis nations have lost their sovereignty
Let me correct that...
"Because their politicians are as corrupt as we are, they surrendered their sovereignty so they may live as gods among mortals."
For those who may not have noticed it (Tom did) "draghi" in Italian means "dragons." Appropriate.
Re: ECB: Crisis nations have lost their sovereignty
Yes, it does. Comedian Beppe Grillo did a play on his name during one of his gigs (which always attract audiences of several thousands and can often fill a stadium) when he presented the ECB as a multi-headed dragon. For those who understand Italian, the video is below. When I have a moment I'll have to subtitle some of his work in English. For what it is worth, Goldman Sachs' boy Monti's surname means "mountains". Mountains of what? My money is on "mountains of shit".