EU considers wholesale nationalisation of private savings

[Flashman]

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This EU business probably isn't going to end well.

[Mich the Tester]

This EU business probably isn't going to end well.

Not while the EU carries on growing beyond basic facilitation of free trade and movement, no.

[doodab]

Where did you get that from? I see they want to allow banks to loan out more of the money that have sitting in their accounts, but I don't see where the EU get their hands on it.

It came from the deep recesses of a paranoid mind. The harsh light of reality doesn't shine there.

[KentPhilip]

Where did you get that from? I see they want to allow banks to loan out more of the money that have sitting in their accounts, but I don't see where the EU get their hands on it.

From the OP's link:

The EU executive will also complete a study by the end of this year on the feasibility of introducing an EU savings account, open to individuals whose funds could be pooled and invested in small companies.

I don't want the EU introducing or running anything.

[MicrosoftBob]

This reminds me of the debate as to whether the Americans really did land on the moon.

The Clangers faked it in a Holywood studio as any fule knows

[ASB]

The Clangers faked it in a Holywood studio as any fule knows

Sadly the soup dragon failed to get any further roles and was reduced to selling herself for spare parts to fund her ever increasing crack habit.

[MicrosoftBob]

Not while the EU carries on growing beyond basic facilitation of free trade and movement, no.

Even beyond that we should be moving away from big government, it's not just the EU itself that is a problem

[CheeseSlice]

But no doubt Europhiles with savings will be content to see them all confiscated and redistributed, for the greater good.

This is just one big communist wet dream for the likes of this guy:

[OwlHoot]

It came from the deep recesses of a paranoid mind. The harsh light of reality doesn't shine there.

The harsh light of reality may become clearer to starry eyed Europhiles before long

Their bright morning star may soon become an ominous glittering portent of revelation ...

[Ticktock]

The harsh light of reality may become clearer to starry eyed Europhiles before long

Their bright morning star may soon become an ominous glittering portent of revelation ...

While wonderful and poetic and all that, it doesn't stop this thread, its title and most of its comments being a complete load of bollocks.