Privatizing Europe
EUROPE, CAPITALISM, ECONOMICS, TRADE, DEVELOPMENT, SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 13 May 2013
Paul Jay – The Real News Network
Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism.
Buxton is the Communications Manager of the Transnational Institute.
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