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then now unannounced she has more should therefore up top with elizabeth that will be a political and he's not very many year project either in a beautiful beefy. in a moment for your kid then prosperity eve you could be the seat. they known as an everlasting the bull's eye she's the author of all of it i was never jealous upon the better should i say that santa lucia recorded feet out of a stick a man of the chairman. he by d.a.p. is greece's largest water company it provides five point five million people with water. in it by the looks of the afro and. it's shaped up famed a coal hallo's by norse anything that's there not like it's a low predicate as the mean of assessment has
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a limit on the barrel settlement at least with us you know an almost in my system of i can see is the bottom up limit they just tell minimise we think you might get . to go on something i stop ok that is a strong us school system or simple enough but these fields are both purity just on the last rescale least so the bulk of myself at least it ought to shape doll if it were your funeral not that i'm up to c.p.a.'s i said this is your particular keep our. own keys that are dead. or fashion a place you. there's a. shill decision. if you know the city.
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and what's a privatization officially it's not the commission's policia state however it's true if you look at the troika us and if you look at the memorandum of understanding between for example the troika and portugal the commission a spot of the troika is asking to further privatized across the book to go so in the troika the commission is still pushing for privatization so if it is really a human right and if you really are serious to the citizens at today's initiative we should start acting on policies instead of celebration. thank. seniority this will not wish was fitting. into your.
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sympathies. for us as you watch fundamental me. that i compose. each could have. this but if it is a so you could if you had. concerns about the pressure being put on southern countries european water movement activists ropes to read. they highlighted to the european commission as part of the troika so to force southern european countries mainly greece and portugal to privatise was that. they say that is unacceptable and must stop. a few months later the commission's reply leaves everyone speechless. the
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commission believes that the privatization of public utilities including water supply firms. can deliver benefits to society when carefully made. to death. it's a source of his future it's in bunches was as they counted a duffer to cosign. such nice bets on i consume of accepted although see. it would put out if it was something i don't. know so did some enormous your comic every nothing yeah if it's out of the depth of a thought if i thought that id goes a little botany see me but i shifted below no gosh but it could be open and not by deed to disk you sure could get all going to disguise your brains you know that. it makes pay minimum opinion to center six pm device you can you could just feel
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secretly got lucky let me be the less i did. not look at dog ac these do always look listen he's gone and a very serious one. when detroit you came to ireland they wanted to privatized the water utility. but there was no water utility. the water was sprayed in twenty seven local authorities so they were told or government by the troika to build one. government at. a company called irish water. which began installing meters. side to people's homes. the first protests took place.
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isn't that a sketch of the city of clock glory a woman went out in the morning and said you are not putting up be the outside my house. i told him they were coming into the station we didn't want the water meters and that was us. but even an hour or two there was a mass of supportive people here to stop them. and this was the first time that the irish people had taken a stand on any issue since austerity had begun says the troika ride to toes in the not. because. i thought i thought it was my fault. i think for some people it probably was the straw that broke the camel's back. and no one of a sudden mood in the street together. and people who are joining the docks and you
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know what has the water meters got to do with the fact that you can't see a doctor should go to a hospital what the water meters got to do with the banks coming in taking people so this. you know this is sewer phone a little bit of power you can cool and fun to try but you can stand to thank your folks. and there's your polar and it's like it might be true years and we're still not finished but people are still resisting this because it is the one thing that they have power and they're never going to give it up. and we knew that this is big something different is not. it's about water forced to foremost but it's also about much more than war it's about to hurt to be trailed the surrender of sovereignty and the redistribution
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of our west up words on their debt downwards. there is a problem with the leaks and we couldn't find them until we have brought in some measures so if i see my solution subtly it says a million liters a month for a couple of days in my house i call that temperature so that's the reason for the missiles. and islands there were no meters because they had a completely different system of water charges. the irish paid through general taxation. over one billion euro was intended for the maintenance and operation of the water system. some people think those pay for water through taxation is a little bit crazy we really only country in the o.e.c.d.
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. it has zero war poverty and we're the only one with the a lot of poverty because we're the only one that pays for a trip to the us a general taxation that's the one thing we got right and we'll keep it and the rest you should look at for follow us listen to us because the dumb irish got this one right. we really need to modernize our russia structure so now we really have to invest. so we need a structure to invest we need to wage borrowed money and then we need a way to pay for it paying out a general type stations people who work would probably end up paying more tax. we are losing forty seven percent of our trees and walk into the ground in leaks before it gets to the top. no billion new up to spent do i choose to spend it on meters or do i choose to stand up billion year old in fixing the leaks and building
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a new one for structure. despite the water having been paid through general taxation. no tax exemptions were plans to offset the new charges. and forcing law that made it. worse as. the threat of paying for water twice led most citizens to regard the introduction of meters and challenges as another austerity measure and the establishment of irish water as the first step towards privatisation. mr ferguson down with the minister tusk by the government with setting up the new company. surely didn't work out quite as we expected. it was never on the agenda from my perspective that it could would or should ever be sold
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or privatized while i was discussing this matter with my officials at the time i insisted that the legislation would have to include three point one the legislation was handed to me before it went into the parliament it wasn't in it. was real. central office and i have that says of course we all know privatisation is ultimately envisaged. and then there was a letter from disinterested just example saying you're stuck you can say that will you please take these words. so that there are walking back to your south towards.
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cut. i think the decision has already been made and everything is ready for the big day. following the examples of berlin and italy the people of thessaloniki will be called upon to say through a non-binding referendum whether they want the water company to be privatized as planned by the government. suddenly however on the eve of the ballot there's a problem. there's a little bit of a deal there's a. they save it and everything in d.c. at least they know the answer into the school and be quiet make a little bit of this. interior minister younis make a locket in a circular sent out the old municipalities declare the referendum illegal then the mic at the top you can make an image on up in the christmas numbers i love of my
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the governorship but don't see it as my photo editor going to get my police feet and of course. i'm sick of it is. my name. but i'd also that if the couple did as much at that this difficult basis to say office i don't need to but i've been a professor to somebody needs to be good at this committee not all of them yes i stay disciplined if a given system if he has a couple a good thing it's just this the hosts the b.b.c.'s even if she's got a man implicitly to call b.c. to put them all on sort of the money a place to put up some of the bloated quarter. french
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president emanuel micron's is on an official trip to absence. is accompanied by forty french businessmen each with an interest in the greek privatization program. today they'll have the opportunity to directly question prime minister alexis to press. among them as sean louise shows the sewage c.e.o. is company has its eye on greece's water companies. and any pot of hell of. a lot from us you guys you've got. my because. i've been this is. a bit more you. left
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it a. little flat most focused on you know. if you missed. it was i must. be is that. if you don't want to. give the ones that. you know me. you don't know don't. you know me. it's. going to be. the country is now obliged to transfer all state owned assets to the super fund. the new anonymous company with a life expectancy of ninety nine years his management board will also consist of representatives of lend us. the water companies are among those assets but the
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government still promises they will not be privatized. they need to get these men up ok at this hour show you may go straight to bed the same as there is i had to go b. c. he asked me that i don't like and go to some extent but only get upset at the park yep if i see both the face i sees but then i did a piece of about the sniffing that leads to the piece that. crosses from a loss who took part in the thessaloniki water movement became the alternative minister for the environment and was put in charge of water management following the state's council's decision he's trying to salvage at least fifty one percent. of the if it was in the midst of the most fuel oil it. was just going to get just one begins with the going to get this bill at this point to get the job in that it's a little bit of it with. a mist over what i mean this is it's that we're going to produce but what i was is it's we thought ickes the part that it's.
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in twenty fifteen and as became minister of the environment and the portugal's newly formed left wing government after the twenty fifteen elections was a policy change to save enough to. deal with a system of the vs a pulse the believe it's a start but they meant that that yeah it will slow team is in this movie see bruce good day. at the vows. the bash. that. nope it is a sin to feed it was not received boustany but this is the view of them. unfortunately the government has washed its hands of these cases according to
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portugal's constitution municipal. ality is that autonomous of the state is forbidden to intervene. dimple well those who vote on d's bossiest c.d.o. but if it is out it will lead by force most into. like a veto mundo us most of us all to the real cull if he so she had already out at the at the divorce place for you minerals but also for the key is to kick you boil in this you know says look i etc. marcello some passes to farrah have to get by on their own. mr gomes knows he has no choice he's bound to pay a huge amount of compensation one hundred seventy two million euros will go to the
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private water company because the boston us municipality failed to reach the envisaged population and water consumption targets. the municipality also realized it had lost all technical know how regarding water management. going through they were the shelves in the d.s. the kids you would buy put it up or. so mr gomez decided to negotiate with the company was she so maybe thought started shepherd was awful doubtful to explore actual work was artifacts know by spark just to get the thread. themselves to the version. home with vs one without is no. lost interest as it. wasn't zied and no suspect that even. england leaving you eat fish as they.
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look out. passes different era but the most expensive water in portugal did not appeal to the courts. umberto brito seeing troubles realized that the game was lost and try to negotiate with the company. you know seems news that appeared to be. misleading lucas and pretty is this. new or the buzz. at the. bison. oh you know me. activist against water charges often patrol this cork neighborhood
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. if they find an irish water crew installing meters they try to force them to leave. oh we say you know what we need. everybody knows that nothing is set in stone yet. the commission keeps pushing islands to comply with the community directive and impose meters and water charges on its citizens. the jury is this principle which is. framed in the water directive that the polluters should be sought there should be a direct responsibility of this cannot be done with a general exception obviously next friday we meet same time. we'll do that right. and yet we don't act on when. faced with an precedented public disobedience the government is trying hard to maneuver between public discontent and the demands
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of brussels. what are trying to do you know in a small way they would say it has to happen because the european union talks it has to happen because detroit at all of us that sort of taps but we can tom logic on its head very very quickly. because when the european commission after the different opinion something acts for example that apple corp older citizens of this country talk to been taught in billion euro suddenly the ideology works and there's and certainly don't you liberal saying that the european commission it's only an opinion we're part of europe but it doesn't it doesn't take away our ability to meet our own decisions in relation to how we tax how can do you know being commission take away our ability to meet our own decisions in relation to water for an opinion of the very same body and the very same people alone has to be her own decisions in relation to give an apple a thirteen billion year old gift. well all you have to do is look at puppets to
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explain those contradictions. all of these situations and all of the peoples of europe need to start having an honest conversation with each of. us kids music plays the whole movement to defend. these good people basically need to be made nice that the scene with. he just and then when they're trying a western i mean to get them out of the government go into the mind of the cia i
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wouldn't have a dogmatic approach to. was. going to come into shores to do are so many players on a company that to yourself. via shite would decent they will cut teeth. cross europe people are saying you know. enough is enough. can we have our social europe box. yes. whatever this song all these. are it's. as if it.
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were. we've only been up. to the end of the time. difference in sweet effect soon. has left. me. completely. all the security mechanisms and agencies in the e.u. saying we don't want to be part of britain anymore it got caught helping stopping out aviation companies we mentioned banks stopping out everyone has to get out because if you don't have the super and not for all the institutions that cover the year that you have to farm that it is going to be a separate go it alone island under a large rain cloud swimming in marmite washing some old hag in a crown those people in france germany and italy and the rest are saying no we
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don't want to be a part of that. you know world of big partisan movie logs and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to get the stories that midstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washington closely watching the hawks.
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