XXI century Quixote
will not say that I shed tears of emotion as last Friday a group of experts announced from the rooftops that all English banks had passed the stress test, and most of the boxes of savings, except for four groups of boxes and CajaSur Cordoba, which would require additional capital contributions that would total 2.043 million together. Contributions that are otherwise available to these inefficient institutions and fed funds by the public treasury when they want to, by the end of the year.
Perhaps the only consolation is that in Spain there has been to nationalize a major bank in Germany or broken and injected huge amounts of public money as has happened in the Netherlands or the UK or discovered black holes in the accounts of a large French bank or Wall Street.
And tell me not to tears by how well the system has mounted Financial when others charged with the red or the results of fictitious stress test while the production system and especially the four million unemployed require measures that stimulate employment reform beyond the BOE.
also be interesting to subject our farmers to another stress test because surely jump leads but I doubt that European authorities were so generous as when the banking field sneezes while signing his death. Let
. Total agricultural income in Spain fell by 5.6% in 2009, from 12,080 million euros in 2008 to just 11,404 last year. And not that there's been a bad year, we have been well nearly a decade without raising his head with a fall in agricultural income gained 26.4% since 2003, which has contributed to the purchasing power of our farmers is 17.2% lower than the income they enjoyed in 1990. It's lost decade, with revenues 20 years ago but costs 2010. A real ruin.
do not know if some other sector will suffer so much as agriculture but on the basis of the results it is clear that the CAP has failed as the necessary support does not citizens of the country.
The impoverishment of the income of our farmers entails great sacrifices but also a conversion muted than in any other sector would require huge amounts without hesitation aid as has occurred in mining, steel and banking now. In just one year has lost 36,600 full time jobs in the sector represents 3.9% of just under one million farmers living in Spain. But rains, it pours, and since 2003 we have lost more than 140,000 farmers abandoned the countryside for its lack of profitability and no one raised the alarm.
The test of solvency to the banking system has shown the soundness of the banking and the availability of almost 3.000 million for the boxes that have not passed at will. A TES solvency in the case of agriculture with a loss of 26% in farm income and 140,000 jobs in just six years shows the urgent need for effective aid and agricultural policies. And today more than ever the government should support farmers and speculation corriejir suffering from imposition of trade oligopoly.
At the origin of asphyxia to which farmers are subjected to this misery that is paid in the field who devote the effort and assume the risks of the crops from those who increased by 447%, according to the price index Origin and destination of the food (IPOD) in June. Among products with higher differential stresses the watermelon with a difference of 990% this summer and artichoke, with 844% percent. The price of farm products suffer a higher cost of 447% from the farm to the supermarket and yet nothing is done from Brussels, Madrid and Valencia. To top farmers must withstand pests, drought or heavy rains arrive without aid or credits are awarded after barely have the strength to demand justice as those affected by plum pox virus, a disease that affects some fruit summer and who since 2008 without charge as committed by the Department. But as much as to endeavor to give back to farmers seems clear that it will need to increase global food supplies and raw materials against myopia of European agricultural policy that seeks to asphyxia from one sector to free up financial resources for other sectors . Given