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long as our coffee and his friends contribute to. this movie. refugee camp. his life story may have ground to a halt. 27 years ago but there's no holding back his dreams player. play thank you for watching. cinema starts may 27th on double play. but. i was thought that was because she had
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understanding of life of europeans the sort of sort of unspoken agreements but that seems to be crumbling. we reporters out traveling to fix the country in some way borders have vanished or new ones are about to pop up and what governments fall into you can hear it wherever they can but they still take the issues money. to. play ok ok but wait a minute this is a good example of how europe could why i tell you more about that in a minute today's made in germany is made in europe live.
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when the bad weather and filin becomes unbearable remember southern europe does not follow a way you can take a cheap flight anywhere that's the e.u. i know. he spoke. a few hours later and i'm on the beach and follow in the south of portugal i could just stay here for wanted to get a job or start a business but for people who are not you citizens it's much harder the union may be softening internal borders but one is still quite difficult to cross the external border. gazing across the atlantic towards home towards morocco. every child heard that from his dad one day that my son on the other side of the sea there if you're spain if you go you should work really hard in order to deserve it
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and. to go there. so honest a lot of us has made it at least in the eyes of moroccan fathers. he's founded a company here in portugal one which helps other non europeans to do the same. i imagine that's incredibly difficult to move to the e.u. and set up a company all the paperwork must be very confusing if you aren't from here. and i said are us knows just how frustrating it can be that's why he developed an online platform that allows others to register a company with a mouse click even if they're currently on another continent. it's very hard to. african continent that europe is bad by europe has its pros and cons as every other continent but still these events. printers
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they want to grow they want to access bigger markers they want also to have better for. international experience talking about international experience certainly has plenty of it he's only 33 years old but his c.v. is longer than many twice his age as a child he travelled a lot with his parents and that left its mark on him to begin with he became a jet pilot for the american army. then he moved to south korea to work in space research. he later headed up large construction projects in japan indonesia qatar and canada before managing business in the middle east for a german company. it's a matter of you know if you want something badly. you just have to educate yourself right now like knowledge is everybody has access to the internet even in african
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countries so you have to have to educate yourself and you have to go after opportunities that kind of spirit certainly fits well with portugal a country that's super startup friendly especially capitalist but when it's raining great. a recent study shows this relatively small city has become europe's 5th largest stop for startups you need the hype. as an entrepreneur and startup lobbyist without the hype and the attention it generates it's hard to build a momentum to do something like this here. she 1st company factory is converting an old military building into a huge office space for tech companies she works closely with the portuguese government which has launched a major push to attract tech companies and start ups a new business visa makes entering the country easier for non european entrepreneurs. if they ask me how best to do it so we set up an online appliqué.
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process and did all the administrative stuff and then just let the people come to basically see how it would work other european countries spend far too much time thinking about something before actually putting it into action. so far only around 60 startup founders have used the visa since the program was lost with no. real strong marketing efforts from the government if you want to. like. these youngsters in other countries but we've seen what they're when you have to go and talk to them and help them come here. alice l.r.s. sees that as his task offering others the opportunity to follow in his footsteps because a border shouldn't be an obstacle to a good idea. reporting
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from portugal has shown me that the advantages of being in the e.u. are basically reserved for those who live in it and those advantages that not arise overnight. the neck of europe europa a beautiful princess in greek mythology carried to crete by a god wearing the form of a bull a figure that stands for the diversity of the continent that bears her name europe's history has been one of bloody wars until free trade helped cement a lasting peace but the european idea is losing support in some quarters. the e.u. is the largest trading bloc in the world in terms of economic output it ranks behind the united states but the head of china member states share a common currency the euro but not all countries benefit to the same extent from the union germany for example and 3 times as much as italy with intra e.u.
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exports there are no border controls within most of the block and no custom stairs e.u. citizens can live and work in any country and sell goods and services there but there is a huge divergence in income and living standards across the block average wages range from 4 to 43 year as an hour and solidarity it's crumbling the british want to keep out eastern europeans while hungary the czech republic and poland have refused to take in their share of refugees the e.u. has an image problem many europeans see it as detached technocratic and practically run by lobbyists but much has also improved rules about the shape of cucumbers are long gone the european commission now employs fewer civil servants than the city of munich but europe still gets blamed for things that go wrong for many in britain an argument for leaving the union. europe could dare to be so much more
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a united states of europe with a common fiscal policy and wage equality. but many want the opposite and are happy to see poor oprah carried away. in. can easily travel 20000 kilometers before ending up in a shop but it doesn't have to be their way from start to finish my home grown homemade fully european t. shirt on the travel a fraction of that my 1st stop was in lubec germany. sandys
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to law runs a chain of clothing shops but he rejects the basic principles of the fast fashion industry. faster cheaper ever greater volumes that is not what he is interested in . in the us then you're against me the most important thing for me is that nobody gets exploited and that we protect the environment we only have this one world. of the earth. in order to reach isn't bush's goals he follows a strict policy. there are many sustainable fashion brands but we differ from most of them in that we trying to do things entirely within europe from the raw materials to the finished article we aim to do it all within our region and by that i mean the european union. to.
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fashion made in europe the single market should make it really easy right i'm going to check that out for myself. and retrace his production across europe the 1st stretches shot just a few kilometers to silence headquarters and warehouse. this is where the online shop is managed new collections are designed. and the dancers made to print t. shirts. it's also molests stop before my new shirt was deliberate. from here i set off with this wendy's to little to poland. in which he has his own factory with
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a staff of 10 there you can set is own standards with my movies gee i really have to ship a piece of clothing 20000 kilometers around the world and it is it is of course much much cheaper to manufacture in asia we've got over there i can't exert any influence. in terms of volume low can't compete with a fast fashion produce outside the e.u. but still this location does surf advantages. in and around woods there's an entire infrastructure for the textile industry for the techs to make clothes you need more than fabric and thread you also need buttons dye works knitting factories all you need lots more as well things like zips it's much as you can get all of that right here this year. this is where my t. shirt takes shape it's cut from dyed fabric song together.
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high end and packaged. nearby is the knitting where threat is turned into fabric. then it's tied at the same company producing in poland guarantees at here and to you environmental standards and the distance to sirens factory is minimal. retracing my shirts path now takes me to greece that's where the cotton comes from . greece produces 80 percent of the copy grown in the european union but that accounts for less than one percent of global production most of the cotton used in europe. it's imported from far away. the company but that source does things differently but then the old yarn producer uses cotton from local farms but that isn't cheap. my t. shirt cost about $20.00 europe's that's a lot more expensive than
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a comparable t.-shirt from fast fashion industry. quality has its price and if we're not prepared to pay for it as european citizens then someone in asia pays a price for us namely in the form of work for low pay in accordance with the fast fashion logic of producing more and faster so that we can pay less is a problem the bubble vessels company has to contend with just as the reversal of recent years has to do with high production costs and with the asian community which often is much lower prices we are working on it the idea is to keep our entire production inside europe and be transparent about it out and balances that. more transparency about how close are made and at what cost can help make consumers across europe more aware of the issues and that might inspire them to buy more products made nearby. my new t. shirt demonstrates that things can be done differently. fair fashion made in europe
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. i got up at 4 30 in the morning. flew to london. changed airports there. in order to fly to a place between borders a place full of millionaires. it's jersey u.k. al explain that asterisk later. literally every single. i've seed since i stepped off a plane is a refinement of. it's what jersey has become famous for financial services lured by the island's tax haven status. to finance industry has made its presence felt everywhere. i see the people south. and continue
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to suffer. if nothing is done. something. not all of jersey's 100000 inhabitants are profiting from the island's tax haven status but how did it come about in the 1st place. well jersey used to be a quiet island that lived from agriculture and tourism most people had nothing to do with finance. but jersey isn't just any old british island. it's a crown dependency meaning it's one of the direct sovereignty of the british crown the union that is everywhere but that doesn't mean jersey is part of the u.k. . confusing rights it means it has its own government and makes its own laws one of them is 0 tax policy on almost all companies and jersey has
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one company for every 3 people and over 330000000000 euros of funds under administration. we save rich people around the world we say that tax. cuts will be good at it that's jeff suppan he's one of the few open critics of jersey's tax policies this is joe morning hand he's the chief lobbyist for the finance industry he wouldn't put it that way increasingly international business wants to be based in jurisdictions or wants to use jurisdictions that are well regulated in my respect and we would certainly meet all those requirements well it's working. apple based 2 of its subsidiaries in jersey from 2015 to 16 allegedly to save billions of euros in tax and nobody knew until the paradise people sprouted to light we exchange information with the authorities that need to know. on what
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basis should everybody know about. business and tightened to confidentiality as long as one is is is not breaking the law this system attracts wealth and the wealthy people as a result living costs have skyrocketed in the past year. and average home costs about 600000 euros but prices can reach into the millions that average annual wage $44000.00 euros and the tax base also means that the government is slowly running out of money to pay civil servants for example. we've lived through the last. 34 years with austerity policies full stop we've got tremendous gap between the rich on one hand and the poor. behind the shiny facades of government statistics show that one in 5 islanders find it difficult to cope financially.
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that's why people like pat lucas are striking. in the last 3 weeks 2 different teachers have said that their families are having to help them. money how many banks do you mean we certainly need and. we need people unless they are all considered and treated properly and paid properly. the teachers have been holding strikes since january and there's no end in sight. somewhere on the way to becoming an island for the rich jersey seems to have neglected its own average citizens.
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i'm off to hungary in southeast europe that has been a member of the e.u. since 2004. it's both cosmopolitan and inward looking. the mood is volatile but nobody really wanted to talk about it with me. i'm not going to talk about the politics well i don't really like to talk about politics because it's not and i think i care. hungary is also facing a serious brain drain young people are keen to leave disheartened and unwilling to
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endure the political situation and corruption. in the notifier problems and the current government but i think. while some hunger ariens tried to get out people from outside the european union are keen to come in to find work and have a better life. from the how to the in the long run actually i try to motivate myself every day. i have a dream. things that i want to achieve. ok i think that's why i'm here. i just want to regular life. for someone i don't believe.
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in january 29000 down here cause my bid farewell to his home country serbia and headed straight for the e.u. he felt he had no choice but all he wanted was to earn more than 250 euros a month a temporary employment agency brought him to hungary as a serb he's allowed to work here for 2 years he got a job with a german car parts supplier b.o.'s assembling roofs for audi companies here are desperate for people like daniel. going in there and i think it would be quite easy to find another job there's a lot of work in hungary and not only here but in the rest of the e.u. as well. hungary's labor shortage runs through all sectors the us fields it is especially. developing new product ranges is a complex task and impossible without foreign labor. at the same time wages are climbing repartee. to keep
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workers at the company even for a few months managing director gad fish bar has to offer a pretty good deal. we had to pay 30 percent more and 2017 this year we also saw a double digit percentage jump if you don't keep up with the going rate you don't get any workers b.o.'s employees over 2000 people in hungary some $300.00 of whom are temporary workers either from inside the country or abroad despite the generous pay hikes only free out of $10.00 workers stay with the company for long many hung guerin's considered the wages too low and move over to austria but they'd rather not say so on camera when we talk a lot to our employees and hear how dissatisfied they are with the various health care systems and schools and so on it's clearly got worse over the years.
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than your cost my has decided to stick around here try to keep moving up the ladder to send more money to his family in serbia 450 euros a month is all he keeps for himself. cosmo lives in the outskirts of marshawn my yacht over not far from the austrian border although he is not an e.u. citizen he still could move on and earn higher wages if he got a job offer elsewhere he shares a 15 square meter room with 2 friends from serbia but 3 of them came to hungary together. instant coffee and cigarettes are the small luxuries they allow themselves. to go to work with many of their conversations revolve around the home they left behind. it's hard to be here when everyone else is back home. and it's just the 3 of us
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here. we've made some new friends but all my old friends my brothers and sisters the entire family they're all in serbia and weighs on our hearts. 10 years bravos will soon be joining him here in hungary they too are willing to make the change for higher wages. i'm sure a lot of the time i really do feel like an outsider here and that makes it pretty tough i mean they're coming. but i guess that i'll just have to get used to it. marginalized with more money in his pocket for 10 years that's worth. at least for now. i feel it's incredible what people are prepared to do to get into their. lives
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people are talking about what is moving them. my father taught me how to ask uncomfortable questions about my country and about bush that is why i keep going to the state my name's paddy stuff and i work at the dappy. shifting powers the old order is history the world is religion izing itself and the media's role is keep the topic in focus of the global media forum 29 teams today one out of 2 people is online who will be following who do we trust to beijing and shape the future at the touch of the global movement for 20 cheap. food.
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