“(…) Denmark’s economy unexpectedly contracted for a second quarter, joining bail-out-reliant Portugal as the only other European nation in a recession, after consumers in the Nordic nation reduced spending.Gross domestic product shrank 0.5 percent in the first quarter, as the government also cut spending amid a widening budget deficit. GDP contracted a revised 0.2 percent at the end of 2010, Copenhagen-based Statistics Denmark said today. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected growth of 0.5 percent in the first quarter.“The figures are highly surprising,” Steen Bocian, an economist at Danske Bank A/S, the largest Danish bank, said in an e-mail. “The reason for the lower consumption is a combination of higher taxes and higher inflation, driven by raw material prices.”The smallest Scandinavian economy is struggling after emerging from a recession in 2009 amid declining employment, a slump in real estate and widening deficits. Public and private consumption fell 0.8 percent in the first quarter from the previous three-month period and fixed investments dropped 8.3 percent, the agency said. Employment slid 0.1 percent, after declining 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter. (…)”
A recessão Dinamarquesa devia fazer perceber ao Norte que não é do seu interesse agredir por via da contracção os povos do Sul.
O caminho tem de ser feito através do consumo do grande mercado interno, sob pena de um após outro assistirmos a fenómenos de recessão generalizada. Como os pepinos contaminados cuja responsabilidade já era assacada pelos Alemães aos Espanhóis urge gritar: acorda Alemanha para as consequências da falta de solidariedade! O que afecta um afecta os outros e o teu modelo não é melhor que os outros!
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