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Еуропаның қаржы дәрменсіздігіне тиімді жауап қату

Nov 30, 2020 George Soros

НЬЮ-ЙОРК – Еуроодақтың мерзімсіз облигация шығаруын қалайтыным туралы көп жазған едім. Ал бүгін одаққа мүше мемлекеттердің әрқайсысының солай жасауын ұсынамын.

Қазіргі уақытта Еуроодақ мерзімсіз облигация шығара алмайды, себебі одаққа мүше мемлекеттер бір-бірінен тым ажырап кеткен. Польша мен Венгрия ЕО-ның келесі бюджеттік жоспарлауы мен COVID-19 экономиканы қайта қалпына келтіру қорына вето қойды, ал «Үнемшіл бестік» (Frugal Five) аталатын Австрия, Дания, Финляндия, Нидерланды мен Швеция елдері жалпыға ортақ игілікке жұмылғаннан гөрі көбіне ақша үнемдеуге мүдделі. Инвесторлар болашағы бар деп сенетін субьектілерден ғана мерзімсіз облигация сатып алуға дайын. Бұл 18- ғасырдағы Ұлыбритания (жиынтықталған облигация шығарған) мен 19 ғасырдағы (жеке мемлекеттердің қарызын консолидациялаған) АҚШ турасында шындыққа жақын дүние. Өкінішке орай, қазіргі ЕО-қа мұның қатысы жоқ.

ЕО-ның жағдайы өте ауыр. COVID-19 індетінің екінші толқыны алғашқысымен салыстырғанда мүлдем тығырыққа тіреп, біршама қиындық туғызды. Одаққа мүше елдер қаржы қорының басым бөлігін пандемияның бастапқы кезінде жұмсап қойған. Денсаулық сақтау саласын қамтамасыз етіп, экономиканы жандандыру үшін жаңа бюджет пен «ЕО Жаңа буын» деп аталатын экономиканы қайта қалпына келтіру қорындағы 1,8 трлн еуродан (немесе 2,2 АҚШ доллары) әлдеқайда көп қаражат қажет. Ал Венгрия мен Польша вето қойған соң аталған аталған қаражат кешіктірілді.

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George Soros

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George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations. A pioneer of the hedge-fund industry, he is the author of many books, including The Alchemy of Finance, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means, and The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival? His most recent book is In Defense of Open Society (Public Affairs, 2019).

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Henk Crop Dec 2, 2020

It is not bad when EU members help each other in times of trouble, but what is wrong here is that:
- the proposal is unlawful
- the EU interferes automatically with internal matters
- at a time we want less EU, a proposal for more EU is presented
- an nontransparent and overly complex proposal is presented. Just another Brussels swamp.
- it is not clearly defined what kind of support will be served by the fund
- the fund, proposed by France, has been shaped like the money transfers the Northern members are so opposed to.
- supervision on the spending of the Fund should not be by the EU commission or the ECB.
They also dream about money transfers. It should be supervised by an independent committee of investors from Northern members. If the funds will not be fully used, the remainder should be returned to the creditors.
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gridhungary gridhungary Dec 2, 2020

The latest Soros proposal might be welcome most by Poland and Hungary because it forgets about the RoL tied to the perpetual bond agreement originally.

Thanks for the ingenuity of Mr. Soros.

Technically it means that 7 countries (Frugal Fives+Hu+PL) are dropping out of the whole bussiness. They are parcticably pains in the neck of that anyhow.

If we are listing up the most devastated countries, our list looks like:
Greece (EL)
Spain (ES)
Portugal(PT)
Italy (IT)
Cyprus (CY)
Slovenia (SI)
Croatia (HR)

The rest of the participators are:
Belgium (BE)
Lithuania(LT)
Bulgaria (BG)
Luxembourg (LU)
Romania(RO)
Czechia (CZ)
France (FR)
Malta (MT)
Slovakia (SK)
Germany(DE)
Estonia (EE)
Ireland (IE)
Latvia (LV)

An open question is now which of these (the 13 guarantors + the 7 debtors) countries feel themselves fortunate enough to be able to issue perpetual bonds in their own names.

Respectable is the vision of Mr Soros how he trusts in the solidarity and accord of EU. I wish that becoming true.
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Keleti K Dec 1, 2020

This is an ill, anti democratic and dangerous proposition. EU must be very careful with George Soros.
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Sivasubramanian Muthusamy Dec 1, 2020

Perpetual Bonds is a great idea, but why restrict the proposal to heal Europe when the pandemic is global? As far reaching it is, it is still band-aid for recovery, it is not immortality, nor restoration of youth. And, even for Europe, how would a trillion help when it is an economy of a 20 trillion dollar gdp, which has grossly suffered for a year, another year or two to 'recover' if conventional economic thinking remains? Could there be a new economic thinking for renewal, worldwide, away from the present mindset of fear of hyperinflation, which may be irrelevant when a responsive economic measure (with related, necessary corrections) are global, not regional, not national?
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Luca Beltrametti Nov 30, 2020

I wonder if by buying perpetual bonds the ECB would infringe the art. 104 of the Maastricht Treaty preventing monetization of debt. Is the purchase of perpetual bonds equivalent to the promise of a perpetual re-purchase of new ordinary bonds when the bonds that the ECB holds come to maturity?
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Henk Crop Nov 30, 2020

The 750 billion Euro recovery fund is a violation of the EU law, which stated that members would keep their debt at 60 % of GDP.
I have no opinion about what the violations of the law in Poland and Hungary are.
But the recovery fund has been proposed and requested, in an intimidating way, by France and Italy is also a violation of the law.
The latter violation will have much more impact on the EU than the first one and should be treated as such.
This is in particular embarrassing for France and Italy, as the two are founding members of the EU. They ought to give an example of lawful behavior.
It's good news that the introduction of the recovery fund has been blocked, and it should be kept that way.
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B. Troer Nov 30, 2020

Thanks for name possible buyer. Life Insurence in civil understanding mean the .mil
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B. Troer Nov 30, 2020

Thanks for name possible buyer. Life Insurence in civil understanding mean the .mil
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