Jean-Claude Juncker Interview: 'The Demons Haven't Been Banished'
In an interview, Luxembourg prime minister and former Euro Group chief Jean-Claude Juncker, 58, urges other EU countries to push ahead with structural reforms, explains why he sees parallels between 2013 and the year preceeding World War I and throws his election support behind Angela Merkel's re-election campaign.
ルクセンブルク首相
ジャン＝クロード・ユンケル氏インタビュー記事
Today, I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.
SPIEGEL: What do you mean by that?
Juncker: The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform. Sentiments suddenly surfaced that we thought had been finally relegated to the past. The Italian election was also excessively anti-German and thus un-European.
SPIEGEL: You're exaggerating. No one today seriously doubts peace and friendship in Europe.
Juncker: That's true. But anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping, as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have shown us. I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.
I see obvious parallels with regard to people's complacency. In 1913, many people believed that they would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the Continent were economically so strongly intermeshed that there was the widespread opinion that they could simply no longer afford to engage in military conflicts. Primarily in Western and Northern Europe, there was a complete sense of complacency based on the assumption that peace had been secured forever.
現在の欧州の状況が第一次大戦前の気配と似ている、と。
Could Germany spark another war? I fear it's all too possible
By DOMINIC SANDBROOK
PUBLISHED: 23:56 GMT, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 08:53 GMT, 13 March 2013
As the legendary American investor George Soros said last year, if the German Chancellor Angela Merkel continued in her economic demands on the rest of Europe, ‘the result will be a Europe in which Germany is seen as an imperial power that will not be loved or admired by the rest, but hated and resisted, because it will be perceived as an oppressive power.’
The Left-leaning magazine the New Statesman simply labelled Merkel ‘the most dangerous German leader since Hitler’.
The agonies of Greece, where effigies of Angela Merkel dressed as a Nazi were burned, have been well documented, but Portugal has been cruelly hit, too. After a 78 billion-euro bailout in 2011, its people have seen welfare spending cut and taxes raised. Even several public holidays have been abolished.
In Spain, meanwhile, cities have seen rioting as unemployment has soared to 25 per cent and anti-German sentiment has grown.
Last year, hundreds gathered to protest in central Madrid after the German Chancellor had left the capital, waving banners and saying ‘Merkel go home’ and ‘No to a German Europe’. One Spanish economist who took part in the protest said: ‘The German financial mafia is taking Spaniards hostage . . . Merkel belongs to a political class that serves German oligarchies.’
The same sense of outrage is driving a massive protest movement in Italy, where the Right-wing newspaper Il Giornale published a front page picture of Merkel under the headline ‘Fourth Reich’.
ドイツって嫌われているんだね。ドイツが戦争の火種か、と。
Monsieur Unpopular: Hollande's Spectacular Fall from Grace
By Mathieu von Rohr in Paris
Never before has a French president fallen in public sentiment as quickly as François Hollande. Only 10 months after entering into office, his popularity rating is plummeting. An event aimed at getting closer to the people this week didn't help.
フランス大統領オランド氏 人気急降下
Something has changed among the people, evidenced by not just opinion polls, but also Hollande's two-day, meet-the-people trip to Dijon. A few hours after leaving behind the unhappy hecklers, Hollande asked a woman who was passing by if she wanted to take a photo with him. She answered coldly, "We see enough of you on TV."
As if that weren't enough, Hollande met another woman shortly thereafter who said to him, "Don't marry her, we don't like her in France." She was referring to Valérie Trierweiler, Hollande's long-time partner. The president fell silent in embarrassment until the woman had gone.
これはきついね。
Pew: For Every 10 Americans, Only 3 Trust The Government
March 11, 2013 10:49 AM
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. has found that fewer Americans than ever trust the decisions made by the government.
Data collected from a survey taken in January of this year indicates that all demographics and partisan groups experienced an increasing lack of faith in government leadership, according to a release posted on the Pew Research website late last week.
“However, there are disparities,” the official summary noted. “[M]ore than twice as many Hispanics as whites (44 percent vs. 20 percent) trust the federal government, and more blacks (38 percent) than whites trust the government.”
Researchers additionally observed that younger Americans trust the government more than their older counterparts, and that more liberals believe in the administration of President Barack Obama than either independents or Republicans.
Conversely, distrust of federal government is presently at 73 percent. Earlier on in the Obama administration, it reportedly hit a record high of 80 percent, according to a graph constructed and presented by researchers at Pew.
政府を信用しないアメリカ人が増えている、と。
ここまで信頼しない、というのは権力に対する健全な懐疑論を超えて、民主主義が機能していないのではないか、とさせ思えてくる。
Manning: US Army like ‘child torturing ants with a magnifying glass’ (FULL LEAKED TESTIMONY)
Published time: March 13, 2013 00:00
Edited time: March 13, 2013 03:58
Manning justifies his actions with a firm belief that what he identifies as US government wrongdoings need to be exposed in order to “spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.”
In the recording he goes on to accuse the army of “not valu[ing] human life," comparing servicemen "to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass."
In regards to the “Collateral Murder” video, which shows US Apache helicopters opening fire on and killing civilians, including journalists, Manning said “the most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seemingly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have.”
アメリカ軍人のイラク、アフガンの行状を子供が虫眼鏡で蟻に苦痛を与えている姿に喩えているアメリカ軍内部告発者
Is feminism making us fat?
The US is one of the only four nations on earth lacking a federally mandated maternity leave, writes Filipovic.
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2013 12:36
Did feminism make us fat? That is the implication of a new study, which shows that as women entered the workforce in larger numbers, their housekeeping hours went down and obesity rates went up.
The authors of the housework and weight study are clear that their results only show correlation, and do not prove that decreased work in the home leads to an uptick in the national obesity rate. And certainly a society-wide decrease in physical activity may be related to a society-wide increase in weight.
Between all that work and all that family time, something has to give - and for a lot of parents, that "something" is housework, healthy eating and physical exercise.
家事をしなくなって女が太ったというが、しなくなったから太ったわけでなく、相関関係があるにすぎない、と。女性の労働条件が悪いので、家事、ヘルシーな食事、そして、運動が犠牲にさせられているのだ、と。
What we do not support - unlike almost every other developed nation - are worker's rights and healthy limits on labour. We are one of the only four nations on earth - along with Liberia, Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea - without federally mandated maternity leave. Parental leave is correlated with lower child poverty rates, improved child health, greater parental involvement, longer breastfeeding and higher maternal employment. But we have no national paid leave policy for parents.
"It is tough to figure out what is more limited: our time or our disposable income."
We are also the only industrialised nation that does not mandate paid vacation and sick days.
Our minimum wage is startlingly low, and below what is actually liveable. In the 2004 presidential debates between George W Bush and John Kerry, a woman prefaced her question by saying she worked multiple jobs to survive. Bush lauded her work ethic, deeming her a true American.
While the unemployment and underemployment rates remain high, Americans are taking any jobs they can get - including the ones that won't accommodate basic health needs, or where a sick day might mean no food on the table.
過酷な労働条件の例をあげているのですが、例えば、
産前産後休暇は、日本の場合、健康保険法で雇用契約になくても、
健康保険法第102条
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第102条
被保険者が出産したときは、出産の日（出産の日が出産の予定日後であるときは、出産の予定日）以前四十二日（多胎妊娠の場合においては、九十八日）から出産の日後五十六日までの間において労務に服さなかった期間、出産手当金として、一日につき、標準報酬日額の三分の二に相当する金額（その金額に、五十銭未満の端数があるときはこれを切り捨てるものとし、五十銭以上一円未満の端数があるときはこれを一円に切り上げるものとする。）を支給する。
支給が保障されているわけですね。
もっとも、他国の方が手当てが厚い場合もあるが、
女性の権利が守られているという
アメリカの場合
United States 0 days
ＮＹＴやJapan Times が絶賛するアメリカはそうした制度そのものがないですね。
で、もって、
Americans Work More Than Anyone
By Dean Schabner
May 1
Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world.
More than the English, more than the French, way more than the Germans or Norwegians. Even, recently, more than the Japanese.
仕事中毒で日本人よりよく働くわけですね。
Man jailed for 14 years for trafficking teenagers from the UK to use as prostitutes across Europe
Odosa Usiobaifo, 35, admitted conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration
Had collected two Nigerian girls to be placed on a flight from UK to Spain
The girls, 14 and 15, had been in local authority care in London
By KERRY MCDERMOTT
PUBLISHED: 17:20 GMT, 13 March 2013 | UPDATED: 18:28 GMT, 13 March 2013
イギリスからの人身売買
通常は貧困国から富裕国へ売春目的などで、人身売買されるわけなんですけどね。
The Demand: Where Sex Trafficking Begins
Donna M. Hughes
Professor & Carlson Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
University of Rhode Island
Trafficking occurs because criminals take advantage of
poverty, unemployment, and a desire for better opportunities.
Corruption of government officials and police is necessary for trafficking and exploitation of
large numbers of women and children. In sending countries, large-scale operations require the
collaboration of officials to obtain travel documents and facilitate the exit of women from the
country.
In destination countries, corruption is an enabler for prostitution and trafficking. The operation of
brothels requires the collaboration of officials and police, who must be willing to ignore or work
with pimps and traffickers. Prostitution operations depend on attracting men. Pimps and brothel
owners have to advertise to men that women and children are available for commercial sex acts.
Officials have to ignore this blatant advertising.
The Exploiters
The exploiters, including traffickers, pimps, brothel owners, organized crime members, and
corrupt officials make-up what is known as the sex industry. They make money from the sale of
sex as a commodity. Traffickers and organized crime groups are the perpetrators that have
received most of the attention in discussions about the sex trafficking.
その際、警官などが目こぼしや賄賂など関与は必須なわけですね。
こちらは、７０にして売春婦引退、と。オランダ。
