Friday, 3 January 2025
Wednesday, 1 January 2025
Jon Danzig: Why We Joined the EU
Jan 1, 2025 | [The EU] was never ‘just about trade’.
𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗨, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗪𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡
It was 52 years ago – on 1 January 1973 – that Britain joined the European Community.
My (Jon Danzig’s) video explains why we joined – and why we might join again, for the same reasons. It was never just about trade. The EEC/EU was started first and foremost to create lasting peace between its members, following the most devastating war the world had ever known.
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Knowledge is surely our best defence, and attack, against the mistake of Brexit. Happy New Year! – @JonDanzig
𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗨, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗪𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡
It was 52 years ago – on 1 January 1973 – that Britain joined the European Community.
My (Jon Danzig’s) video explains why we joined – and why we might join again, for the same reasons. It was never just about trade. The EEC/EU was started first and foremost to create lasting peace between its members, following the most devastating war the world had ever known.
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Knowledge is surely our best defence, and attack, against the mistake of Brexit. Happy New Year! – @JonDanzig
Wealth, Privilege, and Responsibility - The World of the Superrich | DW Documentary
Dec 31, 2024 | While the German economy navigates troubled waters, the lives of the rich continue on unaffected. This film takes a look into the largely closed-off world of the country's millionaires and billionaires - and at how the wealthy see themselves and their privileged lifestyles.
We talk to the CEO of a luxury watchmaker who says German industry suffers from overregulation, with insufficient rewards for taking risks. A well-off building contractor from Dusseldorf, on the other hand, explains how most of the country's millionaires acquire their wealth not from entrepreneurship, but from inheritance. He wants to see a drastic rise in tax rates for the rich, and the proceeds invested where they're needed, e.g. in infrastructure and education.
This documentary also shows life at the Salem boarding school, where the wealthy pay tens of thousands of euros a year to send their children to school. For many, their education includes learning to take on the responsibility involved in later running their family-run businesses.
The superrich live longer and enjoy special tax benefits. The suspension of a wealth tax in 1997 has reportedly cost the German state €380 billion in lost revenues. With the country facing a financial crisis, will its most prosperous individuals live up to their responsibilities that come with privileged financial power?
We talk to the CEO of a luxury watchmaker who says German industry suffers from overregulation, with insufficient rewards for taking risks. A well-off building contractor from Dusseldorf, on the other hand, explains how most of the country's millionaires acquire their wealth not from entrepreneurship, but from inheritance. He wants to see a drastic rise in tax rates for the rich, and the proceeds invested where they're needed, e.g. in infrastructure and education.
This documentary also shows life at the Salem boarding school, where the wealthy pay tens of thousands of euros a year to send their children to school. For many, their education includes learning to take on the responsibility involved in later running their family-run businesses.
The superrich live longer and enjoy special tax benefits. The suspension of a wealth tax in 1997 has reportedly cost the German state €380 billion in lost revenues. With the country facing a financial crisis, will its most prosperous individuals live up to their responsibilities that come with privileged financial power?
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