Making a killing from 'austerity': the EU's great privatisation fire sale

The Ecologist
Feb 24, 2016, 1:34 pm97 pts
Europe's economic crisis has offered vast business opportunities to an all-powerful nexus of financial interests that have snapped up valuable state assets at bargain basement prices, defrauding the poorest countries of countless billions of euros, write Sol Trumbo & Nick Buxton. The EU's highest institutions…

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