It is official: we are participating in the collapse of the world.
First there was the bumbling of Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch minister who, presiding the meeting of the Eurozone in March, has considered it a good idea to announce that the stealing of the money from the depositors of Cypriot banks is a model that would be extended to the European Union, to save distressed banks.
But, on the day that the announcement was made, the European stock markets shook, the Euro tumbled against the dollar, and the cost of insuring banks against risk rose sky high.
On the same night, the same Dijsselbloem said that "no, the measures dictated by Europe in Cyprus, are an exception and that they are not a model that would be passed in the entire European Union.
The same man - a minister in his country and also a high ranking European official -, on the same day, answered both "yes" and "no" to a question that concerns all of us.
In reality, the Eurogroup has been working on this plan since last summer, so it was visible that Dijsselbloem was lying when he said that the theft of the depositors' money would not be extended to all the banks in the European Union and that he was saying the truth when he said that it would.
Which was actually confirmed later.
In June, the European Union accepted the draft of what the specialists call "bail-in" (and bank depositors call simply "theft"), planning to put into implementation starting in 2021, but then changed its collective mind and set the deadline at 2019.
But one month later, Joerg Asmussen - a German from the executive structure of the European Central Bank - said that even 2021 would be too late, and that Europe should become "Cypriotized" (well, the expression comes from me, but it has the same meaning as what he was saying), until 2016, preferably on January 1st, 2015.
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