- Five ways to solve the eurozone crisis | Henning Meyer
Myths and misinformation feed in to a general lack of ideas about how to save the eurozoneThe crisis of the eurozone seems to be going from bad to worse. Not only have the key players not yet found convincing solutions for the fiscal problems in Greece, Ireland and Portugal but we are already witnessing the beginning of a political backlash that could undermine the achievements of decades of European integration. There is generally a lack of ideas about what needs to be done to turn things around so here are my suggestions:1. Say it as it is: it's about politics, not economics As Wolfgang Muenchau observed, the debt to GDP ratio of the eurozone as a whole is less than that of the UK or the US and does not pose an overall economic problem. The problem is that there is a lack of political mechanisms to deal with fiscal crises in some areas of the eurozone. So this crisis is not about economics, it is about politics and economically illiterate politicians.2. There are no payments – be honest with Europe's citizens It is frankly shameful that most European leaders, especially in Germany, keep their population believing that there are direct payments to countries such as Greece. This nurtures the wrong assumption that the German taxpayer pays for early retirement and other luxuries they themselves do not enjoy.This is just wrong. The bailout is not a direct payment – it provides IMF and EU lending facilities that lend at lower than market interest rates but at higher rates than the countries that underwrite it can get money for. So the bailout (actually a misnomer) is not a handout but a loan at a profitable rate if there is no default.What this dishonesty does, however, is to undermine solidarity and to create a widespread mood against Europe in debtor as well as creditor c ユーロ圏のeurozoneThe危機を保存する方法についてのアイデアの一般的な不足に神話は、誤報フィードますます悪くなると思われる
- Greece 'to ban early retirement'
Greece's government intends to raise the pension age and ban early retirement as it tackles its budget crisis. ギリシャ政府としては、財政危機にタックル年金受給年齢と禁止の早期退職を高める予定です
- Maureen Lehane obituary
Opera singer and music educationist behind the Great Elm festival in SomersetThe mezzo-soprano Maureen Lehane, who has died aged 78, graced the stages of Europe and America for little more than two decades, though she was a firm favourite with both critics and audiences during that period, especially in Handelian opera. After her early retirement in the late 1970s, she put her formidable talents and energies to use in the field of music education via the Jackdaws Music Education Trust, which in turn evolved out of the Great Elm music festival, near Frome, Somerset, founded by Lehane in memory of her husband, Peter Wishart, in 1986. The vocal awards established by the festival have been won by singers of the calibre of Kate Royal, Christopher Maltman and Amanda Echalaz, while outreach projects have enriched the lives of countless youngsters in the locality.Born in London, Lehane attended Queen Elizabeth's grammar school for girls in Barnet, where the music teacher, of the opinion that she had not got much of a voice, ejected Lehane from the choir. Not discouraged, she went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music, London, and in Berlin, emerging as a singer of note in the mid-1950s, though it was not until 1967 that she made her Glyndebourne debut as Melide in Cavalli's L'Ormindo. She also sang repertoire by Vivaldi, JC Bach, Purcell (Dido and Aeneas) and Rossini (La Cenerentola), but it was for her performances of Handel, often in castrato roles, that she was best known.She participated to acclaim in a series of presentations by the Handel Opera Society at Sadler's Wells and was widely admired on international tours to North America, Australia and the far east, singing at different times under Adrian Boult, Malcolm Sargent, Pierre Boulez, John Pritchard, Neville Mar 彼女は両方の批評家や観客の間で根強い人気でしたが78歳で死亡したSomersetTheメゾソプラノモーリーンLehaneさん、で大エルム祭の背後にあるオペラ歌手は、音楽教育者、ほとんど二十年以上のヨーロッパやアメリカのステージを飾ってヘンデルのオペラを中心に、その期間
- 10.13覚える単語(私的メモ３)
domestic product 国産品
dramatic scenery 劇的な光景
due date 満期日
durable material 耐久性のある材料
early retirement 早期退職
economic growth 経済成長
electrical appliance 家電製品
electrical power outage 停電
electronic goods 電子製品
existing equipment 既存の設備
extended periods of time 延長時間
extra charge 追加料金
federal mandate 連。命令
financial setback 財政悪化
financial statements 財務諸表
first aid 応急手当
fiscal year 会計年度
fixed price 定価
free admission 入場無料
frozen food products 冷凍食品
further details より詳細な説明
general consensus 全体的な合意
guided tour 案内旅行
heavy traffic 交通渋滞
incidental expense 雑費
incoming call 外部からの電話
informed decision 説明を受けた上での決定
intended recipient 指定受取人
internal communications 内部連絡
legal advisor 法律顧問
limited capacity 収容能力の限界
local call 市内電話
long-term employment 長期雇用
loyal customer 得意客
major carrier 主要航空会社
manufacturing firm 製造会社
medical insurance 医療保険
missing luggage 忘れ物
monthly quota １ヶ月の割り当て量
mounting pressure 高まる圧力
natural resources 天然資源
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