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Luis Doncel Bruselas 11 MAR 2013 - 19:31 CET
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German Green MEP has created an award to more toxic financial product
Luis Doncel Brussels 11 MAR 2013 - 19:31 CET
Next Friday in Brussels an awards ceremony where the winners not parade down the red carpet or in their speeches will remember those who have helped them get here. In fact, none of them would have won a contest in which you choose the most toxic financial products. It is a modest initiative, but has already raised hackles. "The industry is watching us closely. A juror has received calls from several offices, "says the promoter of the idea, the German Green MEP Sven Giegold.
Credit cards with excessive interest, foreign currency mortgages, investments related to uranium mining ... are some of the candidates in a contest in which any citizen could submit financial artefact more hated. The jury, composed of five experts, he reached 150 proposals, of which a hundred discarded not consider them serious. Among the remaining 50, eight finalists chosen. So far, 1,400 people have voted through www.dangerous-finance.eu two categories: the most harmful to the environment or to the poorest and the most damaging to consumers or investors. "We made this distinction because if you only give a prize, attention would fall in the first group, and those who speculate with food," says the senator.
As a good environmentalist, a vegetarian and choose the closest restaurant to the European Parliament that provides options without meat or fish at a good price: "I came to Brussels to participate in the bubble of luxury that surrounds this city." Giegold not pay much attention to the food. He does not want to deviate from its goal of get the colors to an industry whose abuses have created the current crisis and some authorities have looked the other way. "Although since 2011 have power to ban the most harmful practices, regulators have not used", criticizes.
"Angela Merkel is not interested in content but maintain power"
Among the finalists are not the preferred, but Giegold said that the sale of these products to Spanish families without financial literacy is one of the biggest scandals in European banking. "The Bank of Spain allowed entities resolve their capital problems transferring the risk to consumers," he says. The MP believes that entities placed these risk products to retired or housewives violated European standard which requires the bank to properly advise his client.
Finish the meal and this former anti-nuclear activist is encouraged to talk about other things. Does the German government to get out of the September elections will dare to take steps to alleviate the problems of southern Europe? "The public does not want debt mutualisation. Many Germans say they would give that money to enrich corrupt elites of Spain or Greece. I am not so naive not to know that this is an excuse, but as an argument is powerful. " Angela Merkel? Change his mind? "It is a strange animal. Not interested in content but maintain power. Will do what they want to make their voters "answers just before criticizing the Bangladeshi waiter cries on the phone. "It's a cultural thing. I can not stand the noise "is justified.
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