Política e economia internacional 2015

[Paulo H]

E arame farpado, com postos de vigia espaçados de 200m?

A fronteira terrestre portuguesa com Espanha, mede 1 214 km. Dava para empregar 5000 pessoas.

 

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Tentei encontrar informações mais abrangentes acerca da evolução desta cidade após a remodelação económica mas porventura devido à sua pequenez não consegui (demoram alguns anos até serem visíveis as consequências). Ainda assim fica aqui um exemplo recente de liberalismo (quase puro) em ponto pequeno (@David sf @Vince @Agreste):

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/business/20maywood.html?ref=business&_r=0

É uma cidade com alguns problemas:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/01/07/fbi-reportedly-probes-allegations-of-maywood-bribery/

 

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In two separate rulings last week, the Supreme Court of Iceland and the Reykjavík District Court sentenced three top managers of Landsbankinn and two top managers of Kaupþing, along with one prominent investor, to prison for crimes committed in the lead-up to the financial collapse of 2008. With these rulings the number of bankers and financiers who have been sentenced to prison for crimes relating to the financial collapse has reached 26, and a combined prison time of 74 years.

Eleven former bankers have been sentenced to four and a half years or more in prison. The former top bosses of Kaupþing have received the longest sentences to date. Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the former CEO of failed bank Kaupþing and Magnús Guðmundsson, the CEO of Kaupþing Luxembourg, top the list, having been sentenced to a combined six years in prison for extensive market manipulation, embezzlement and breach of fiduciary duties. The maximum combined sentence for financial crimes according to Icelandic law is six years.

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/26-bankers-already-sentenced-a-combined-74-years-prison

Na Europa e nos EUA quantas figuras de topo foram e são acusadas por repetidos crimes na banca? 0.

 

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Hand guns and rifle sales are spiking in Austria, with some shops reporting they are running out of stocks of shotguns, since no license is needed to buy them.

Up to 8,000 migrants cross the border every day, with authorities saying numbers could soon rise to 12,000.

Austrians seem to be getting nervous. They have bought 70,000 guns this year alone, according to police. In a country with an estimated population of 8.5 million, there are currently about 900,000 privately owned guns.

https://www.rt.com/news/320026-austria-gun-sales-spike/

Politics should play no part in the Nord Stream-2 project to deliver natural gas from Russia to Northern Europe, says German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel.

https://www.rt.com/business/320029-germany-nord-stream-gas-russia/

Threatening continued assaults on the Kurdish militia in Syria, the Turkish president has warned he will not request anyone’s permission to do whatever is necessary to prevent the spread of support for Kurdish autonomy, even if it requires bombing US-allied rebels.

In a clear message to dissuade Kurds from supporting the self-declared autonomous town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border, President Tayyip Erdogan said that he will “do what is necessary,” including using force, to eradicate the potential source of separatism along its borders.

https://www.rt.com/news/320016-turkey-threatens-kurds-syria/

Over 80 percent of the asylum seekers recently arrived in Germany have no formal qualifications, and only eight percent have a college degree, local media reported citing research by the country's Federal Employment Agency.

Germany (population 80 million) may receive 1.5 million asylum seekers this year alone. It has already accepted more asylum applications than any other European nation, with a number of critics pointing to a high number of uneducated and illiterate people coming to the country.

https://www.rt.com/news/320044-asylum-seekers-germany-education/

 

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German Village of 102 Braces for 750 Asylum Seekers

One of the few people, in fact, who seem enthusiastic about the plan for Sumte is Holger Niemann, 32, an admirer of Hitler and the lone neo-Nazi on the elected district council. He rejoices at the opportunities the migrant crisis has offered.

“It is bad for the people, but politically it is good for me,” Mr. Niemann said of the plan, which would leave the German villagers outnumbered by migrants by more than seven to one.

Germans face “the destruction of our genetic heritage” and risk becoming “a gray mishmash,” Mr. Niemann added, predicting that public anxiety over Ms. Merkel’s open-armed welcome to refugees would help demolish a postwar political consensus in Germany built on moderation and compromise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/w...f-102-braces-for-750-asylum-seekers.html?_r=1

 

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Infelizmente às vezes compensa ser terrorista. Erdogan vence e reconquista a maioria.

 

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UN Libya envoy accepts £1,000-a-day job from backer of one side in civil war

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-day-job-from-backer-of-one-side-in-civil-war

 

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The socialist government of Venezuela is not known for Swiss-like efficiency or discipline. But when President Nicolas Maduro promised to deliver public housing unit No. 1,000,000 on his weekly television program last night, he upped the ante a bit.

"I'll make a bet," he said. "If we don't deliver 1 million homes by December 31, I'll cut off my moustache."

Providing housing for Venezuela's poor — many of whom live in precariously built shacks in the hilly capital, Caracas — was a signature part of Chavez's socialist agenda. In 2011, the government has set a goal of 3 million units by 2019, but as of mid-October it had delivered fewer than 750,000 homes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world:homepage/card

 

[Gerofil]

Acordo de Parceria Transatlântica de Comércio e Investimento

O projeto está a receber muitas críticas por alguns setores da política, dos media, de organizações de proteção da natureza e do consumidor e por organizações não governamentais, estando a ser negociado por representantes dos poderes económicos fora do âmbito público e sem o controlo democrático dos parlamentos nacionais e do Parlamento Europeu. Os esperados efeitos positivos sobre economia e emprego também foram alvo de críticas, embora as projeções publicadas pela Comissão Europeia, relativas a um período de 10 anos, apresentem um cenário mais otimista.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acordo_de_Parceria_Transatlântica_de_Comércio_e_Investimento

Aumentam as reservas na Alemanha contra o acordo comercial com os EUA

O presidente democrata-cristão do Bundestag, o parlamento federal alemão, declarou que este não deverá aprovar um tratado que lhe seja apresentado para pegar ou largar, elaborado em negociações secretas e sem qualquer possibilidade de intervenção dos deputados.

http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/au...-contra-o-acordo-comercial-com-os-eua_n869377


Milhares de manifestantes protestam contra acordos de comércio livre UE-EUA-Canadá

As negociações do TTIP, que decorrem desde 2013, deveriam ser concluídas antes do fim do mandato do Presidente Barack Obama, no próximo ano, mas existem vários obstáculos, nomeadamente a opinião pública de muitos países, entre os quais a Alemanha.

http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/mi...ordos-de-comercio-livre-ue-eua-canada_n865004

 

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Ao que parece o EI abateu o avião no Egito mediante uma bomba. Apesar de Portugal estar a aproveitar a instabilidade no Norte de África para criar mais empregos isto a médio prazo trará muitos problemas à Europa. O Norte de África é, em grande parte, pobre e com tendência para radicalismos. O turismo é extremamente importante. Dá emprego e rendimento a muita gente ajudando a criar um equilíbrio mínimo. Vendo o caso da única democracia pós-Primavera Árabe:

Tunisia estimates at least $515 million in losses in 2015 for its tourism industry after last Friday's attack on a beach hotel that killed 39 people, mostly British holidaymakers, the tourism minister said.

The North African country earned $1.95 billion in revenues from tourism last year. The sector makes up seven percent of its gross domestic product and is a major source of foreign currency and employment for Tunisia.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/30/tunisia-security-idUSL8N0ZG0BM20150630

Up to 2 million hotel nights are expected to be lost over the next year, hastened by warnings from the UK other European governments last week that their citizens are no longer safe on Tunisia's shores.

Tourism employed about 400,000 people in this country of 10 million and made up about 7 percent of gross domestic product in 2014.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-3158870/Tunisia-tourism-crippled-European-warnings.html

E voltando ao Egito:

Tourist numbers have fallen in Egypt rapidly in recent years from 14.7 million visitors in 2010 to 9.9 million in 2014

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...inx-tourists-shun-Middle-Eastern-hotspot.html

Tourism revenues in the last fiscal year (FY) 2014/2015 declined to $7.8bn, compared to the targeted revenues of $10bn, according to a Ministry of Tourism official.

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/...revenues-end-of-fy-20142015-tourism-official/

Há cerca de 20 mil turistas britânicos presos na região de Sharm el-Sheikh, no Egito, depois de o Governo britânico ter anunciado ontem a suspensão dos voos entre o Reino Unido e aquela estância balnear, por suspeitar que tenha sido uma bomba a causar a queda do avião russo, no sábado, no Sinai.

O governo de David Cameron está a preparar medidas de emergência para repatriar esses turistas, havendo já algumas largas dezenas à espera no aeroporto. Uma dessas medidas passa por enviar para a região aviões que tragam de volta os britânicos ao Reino Unido já a partir de amanhã.

http://www.dn.pt/mundo/interior/avioes-vazios-vao-buscar-20-mil-turistas-britanicos-4871148.html

A Easyjet e a Thomas Cook são duas das companhias que estão a ultimar um plano de evacuação de 10 mil turistas britânicos do Egipto, na sequência da queda do avião russo no deserto Sinai, no último fim-de-semana, avança a Bloomberg esta quinta-feira, 5 de Novembro.

http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empr...as_vao_evacuar_10_mil_turistas_do_egipto.html

O país que referi também tem outros problemas muito graves:

Data shows that Egypt’s population has grown over the years, but the country has not effected increases in agricultural land or in the amount of available water. Egypt, an agrarian country, is losing nearly 60,000 acres per year as a result of soil erosion and construction. Moreover, it suffers from a significant lack of water. Its share of water from the Nile, approximately 55 billion cubic meters per year, has remained unchanged since 1954 despite a threefold increase in population.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/egypt-population-growth-economy.html

 

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UAE told UK: crack down on Muslim Brotherhood or lose arms deals

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...down-on-muslim-brotherhood-or-lose-arms-deals

How the Benalux Blocked Anti-Tax Haven Laws

http://www.spiegel.de/international...uild-new-egyptian-capital-city-a-1061074.html

 

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Gay rights vote undermines EU-Ukraine visa deal

https://euobserver.com/lgbti/130999

Ukraine Is in Danger of Becoming a Failed State

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-06/unreformed-ukraine-is-self-destructing