The Wall Street Journal has chosen to do a hatchet job on Spain. A negative video report all about financial disaster (‘the Lehman Brothers of Europe’) with images of bulls, flamenco, San Fermines, the World Cup, and people running around the streets doing nothing but have a good time while living on benefits provided by a generous welfare state. There is the decayed luxury of Marbella (‘Who’d want to work with views like this on your doorstep?’) and that empty and unlicensed housing development near Madrid but nothing positive at all.
The WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch. One of the board members of News International is former Spanish PM José Mª Aznar. As South of Watford said the other day:
… it wouldn't surprise me at all if sections of the Spanish right tried to provoke a Greek style crisis for Spain; regardless of the potentially disastrous consequences for their fellow citizens.
Cui bono?
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