nur merkwürdig dass das doch fast alles längst umgesetzt wird
mit dem Gesundheitstourismus mag er wohl recht haben
At 72 years of age, Carlos Slim Helú's agenda is very tight, and even before one meeting has ended the next group starts gathering around his table. In this interview about the European crisis, granted jointly to EL PAÍS and its five partners in the Europa project (The Guardian, Le Monde, La Stampa, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Gazeta Wyborcza), the Mexican business magnate argues that Europe's welfare state has become unsustainable. He says adjustments must be made to ensure that unemployed people get retrained according to future labor needs, supports pushing back the retirement age and suggests work schemes where older workers put in fewer days a week but more hours per day.
Slim, founder and honorary chairman of the business conglomerate Grupo Carso (Telmex, América Móvil, Sears Mexico and others) and declared by Forbes magazine the wealthiest person alive since 2010, has this piece of advice for Europeans: "What Europe must do is two things: sell assets to reduce its debt and deficit levels, and also invite the private sector to make the kinds of investments that the state no longer needs to make."
Question. You recently stated in an interview: "You read the numbers, and the numbers tell you what's going on." So what do Europe's numbers tell you? What's happening there?
Answer. [...] The main reason for what is happening now is that, after World War II, governments established an increasingly larger welfare state that has become unsustainable. It is necessary to make some adjustments to this welfare state. They need structural changes, but you can see that these are not being undertaken, and that instead [governments] are resorting to the traditional recipe of adjusting the fiscal deficit through higher taxes or lower public spending.........
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