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2007-08-18 Europe

'Basque land not for sale' - bombers hit holiday homes

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Posted by lotp 2007-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 That is the last where I would rent a holiday home. Except maybe Gaza.

Posted by McZoid 2007-08-18 01:49|| 2007-08-18 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 This is actually two combined situations. The first is that the British are buying up French properties in droves, as holiday homes. France is essentially a poor, agrarian nation supported by enormous agricultural subsidies from the EU.

The second is that Spain is starting to fracture between their divisive ethnic groups. Basques are just the noisiest group, the least "Spanish". In a lot of places in Spain, people do not call themselves Spanish at all, but by their regional names, such as Catalan.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-18 10:35|| 2007-08-18 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 France is essentially a poor, agrarian nation supported by enormous agricultural subsidies from the EU.

Wow. Heard about Concorde, the TGV, Ariane?

Let me edit your comment. France is a rich country with a strong agricultural lobby but manages to have the bill paid by those suckers of the EU. And also manges to milk British suckers by selling them old houses three times their price.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-08-18 11:24|| 2007-08-18 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree with JFM. Mr. Wife takes as many business trips to France as to Japan, I believe. If only the French weren't so addicted to government bureaucracy...

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-18 11:39|| 2007-08-18 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 France is essentially a poor, agrarian nation supported by enormous agricultural subsidies from the EU.

Sigh.

France :

GDP - per capita (PPP): $31,100 (2006 est.) (USA : GDP - per capita (PPP): $44,000 2006 est.; Japan : GDP - per capita (PPP): $33,100 2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 2.2% (USA : 0.9%; Japan : 1.6%)
industry: 20.6% (USA : 20.4%; Japan : 25.4%)
services: 77.2% (2006 est.) (USA : 78.6% 2006 est.; Japan : 73.1% 2006 est.)

The bit about the EU is true, too; it has wrecked french agrarian culture (french paysans are in a constant state of upheaval, and a very powerful and aggressive lobby, but in the same time, they're addicted to subsidies and State-sponsirship), which has became productivist and industrial, but in large part, the PAC/CAP (common agrarain policy) is a big scheme to get monies from Germany notably, inot the pockets of the french producers.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-18 11:47|| 2007-08-18 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 the PAC/CAP (common agrarain policy) is a big scheme to get monies from Germany notably, inot the pockets of the french producers.

Proving that the French are (most of the time) smarter than the Germans.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-08-18 12:46|| 2007-08-18 12:46|| Front Page Top

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