Money talks: Bailout in Brussels
Money Talks from The Economist
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🗓️ 10 May 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello, I'm Edward McBride, the finance editor. |
| 0:27.0 | This week on Money Talks. |
| 0:29.0 | Does one person's desire for affordable housing trump someone else's right to buy a holiday home? |
| 0:33.6 | So Mayor Keynes will join us later to talk about feuds between locals and holidaymakers |
| 0:37.7 | over housing. |
| 0:38.7 | The problem comes in the off-season bits when ultimately the locals grumble that they're left with this ghost town. |
| 0:46.4 | But first we turn to Greece. |
| 0:48.1 | This week Prime Minister Alexis Cyprus and his coalition government voted in favour of tax increases and pension cuts to satisfy the demands |
| 0:55.2 | of Greece's creditors. |
| 0:56.4 | Even before the vote in Parliament, demonstrators in Athens voiced their anger over the reforms, |
| 1:07.5 | which come on top of years of austerity and declining living standards. |
| 1:11.0 | There is a lot of public unrest, social unrest, because the measures that he has put through rely very |
| 1:18.6 | much on tax increases, very little on spending cuts except the pensions. |
| 1:25.7 | That's Mirandza Zafa of the Center for International Governance Innovation, a think tank. |
| 1:30.8 | What remains to be done is that Mr. Tsipras has to pass through Parliament the remaining |
| 1:38.8 | parts of the legislation. |
| 1:40.9 | That includes lots more on popular measures, but Ms Zafa says the passage of the austerity bill this week shows that Mr. |
| 1:46.5 | Cypress's coalition is strong. |
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