The people's revolution has already caused the resignation of the ER Finance Minister, Gerhardt Buller, after a rescue package designed to enable the Republic Government to avoid insolvency was rejected by the Chinese Legislative Yuan in Beijing on Thursday.
Berlin, European Republic, October 23 2050
by ZI finance reporter, Kun Lee
As mass protests continue in European capitals for the fourth week, the government of the European Republic is debating a motion by the state of France to dissolve the Republic and return to a loose Federation of nation states.
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| Euro slum dwellers are refusing to pay super-tax |
The crisis was provoked by the refusal of millions of Europeans to pay the new super-tax imposed by Berlin for the recovery and relocation work needed after the inundation of Holland by rising sea levels. The ER economy has already buckled under the demands of its remilitarisation program, intended to enable it to secure fresh water resources into the next century.
"They can build a great big wooden shoe and sail off in it for all I care," said Pedro Alondra, a café worker in Paris. "We don't even have running water 4 hours a day, and we are expected to open our doors, and our wallets, to 5 million Dutch who have known for 20 years this would happen?"
The time had come for every European state to take responsibility for its own citizens, said French governor, Phillipe Le Guymont.
"We can no longer expect the bureaucrats of Berlin to solve the problems of the squatters of Marseille, or the displaced from Rotterdam. Only the French can solve French problems, and the Dutch must solve their own."
It is 35 years since the national bankruptcies of Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal led to the collapse of the then European Union, and the formation of a European Republic incorporating the free states of Germany, France, Benelux, Scandinavia and Austria.
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