the head of the european central bank and former prime minister of italy mario draghe, who presented a 400-page report on the state of affairs in europe at the request of the european commission. the report states that the gap with the us and china in technological development is widening. in addition, 2024 is the first year when europe cannot count on population growth, and its numbers will steadily decline. and by 2040 , 2 million workers will disappear from the labor market every year, while their productivity is very weak, while provided that it does not change, this will only be enough to maintain gdp at a constant level until 2050. in addition, draghi complains, europe has to worry about its defense again for the first time since the end of world war ii. if europe stops providing the basic values ​​- prosperity, equality, freedom, peace,

democracy in a sustainable environment and guarantees for the population, it will lose its reason for existence, the document emphasizes. to prevent the economy from falling into a slow death agony, draghi proposes investing 800 billion in it. euro, which is about 4.5% of the eu's gdp in 2023. for comparison, marshall plan investments from 1948 to...

aggravation of allergy to supranational governance. this is generally the main dilemma of modern post-globalization. military and political crises are growing, tearing the world apart, but these parts are still closely interconnected, so much so that a break in communication affects everyone. it is not beneficial to anyone, but this does not mean that it will not happen, it already happens. possession of this or that resource is not so much a source of benefit as a weapon. and so... the russian president recently defended: it is time to think about limiting the export of strategically important raw materials to unfriendly countries. western countries, including the united states, continue to buy russian resources . until the end of 2022 , the main buyers of russian raw materials were the eu countries. however, after they introduced anti-russian sanctions, exports to europe decreased. compared to the previous year.

russia is one of the largest producers of precious metals and precious stones. it ranks fifth in the world in gold mining, this is approximately 6-7% of the world market. in the production of platinum group metals, russia ranks second after yur, here the share is much larger, approximately a quarter of all world production. moscow is also the main supplier of fuel for... american nuclear power plants. the united states still buys about 20% of enriched uranium from it. the largest producer of this raw material is kazakhstan, which occupies almost half of the world market. the head of kaz atomprom recently stated that it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to supply uranium to the west. all raw materials are bought by partners from asia. rosatom, meanwhile, signed a contract with bolivia for the construction of a plant for the production of carbonate. lithium, its launch

is scheduled for the second half of the twenty- fifth year, the design capacity is up to 14,000 tons per year. lithium carbonate is a raw material that is necessary for the production of lithium batteries, in terms of reserves of non-ferrous metal ores, russia occupies a leading position in the world. over the past two years, western companies have bought titanium from russia for almost a billion dollars. for example, airbus in 2022 refused ex.

bans the import of titanium from russia. economics loves rationality, but now it is almost an unaffordable luxury. and... to live, today we have a very dear guest, to whom we will ask this sacramental question: roman marshavin, executive director from russia at the world bank. roman, hello, very glad to see you, tell us, to begin with, the world bank has always been perceived as, in addition to all other political affairs, as a very powerful analytical center, whose task is to analyze the world economy, as it is, and to give some assessments, now it is... possible in the current political circumstances? in principle, the forecasts are quite high-quality and many industry reports, they are still cited in all the leading universities of the world, even there the reports of the seventies on industrial policy,

were so well written that they retain their relevance, but of course, without politicization in the last 2 years, and we see that when a forecast is prepared... on the basis of complex dynamic models, all the same in the end an expert adjustment is given, and we see how much the opportunistic considerations begin to prevail, that is, i will give a couple of examples, for example, the forecast for the european economy, the scenario for ukraine includes the fact that the conflict will end within the next few months, and then in the forecast for russia it is written:

the forecast for this year is about 0.7% growth, well , again, the situation varies by country, and for many large economies in germany it is about zero, in principle, we compare these forecasts even with private investment banks,

which, for example, a recession is predicted, but the world bank and the imf, they are trying to create more optimistic expectations for the markets . therefore, they add a little growth rates to the europeans, the volkswagen car concern is going to close several plants in germany, the bloomberg agency reported, as well as the zeitung newspaper. presumably, we are talking about the enterprises in vosnobrücke and dresden. the plants are going to be moved to the usa. the main problem is unfounded. production costs compared to competitors, similar problems for other german auto giants: the capacity utilisation of daimler, mercedes-benz and smart plants is currently 58%.

porsche is also planning to announce production cuts. its plant in zufenhausen is switching to a single-shift production schedule instead of the usual two shifts per day. german manufacturers are losing the chinese market, where they used to make up to half of their profits. sales of mercedes and bmw cars in china fell by 5% in the first half of the year, while volkswagen, porsche and audi by 20%. however, it is not only the automakers that have problems. recently , there has been a flurry of bankruptcies in the country. companies with a century-old history are closing, among them verv. 250 years old, the construction company gusceck house - 70 years old, often such companies worked with minimal profitability, and now it has become very

difficult for them, how does this work at all, well, are they guided by these forecasts, let's say , to instill optimism? maybe the world bank is valuable in such global analytical industry reports, for example, we had a good one this year report on how countries with... forecasts, here, probably, all the same, are more guided by the imf, although we also have the so-called

outlook twice a year, where the bank also forecasts growth rates for all countries. tell me, please , mentioning europe, well, europe has always been considered a very prosperous zone, unlike many others. now for a person from the outside, the feeling is that it’s just the opposite, problem countries, problems remain. but they are developing, they are solving them, and europe seems to be either stagnating or even itself is becoming a source of problems, in the work of international organizations, this is somehow recorded, i'm not even talking about specific problems in europe, but the fact that the world palette has changed dramatically, of course, is recorded, and the bank warns in its reports about the risks associated with the debt crisis, well, everyone knows that the level of public debt in europe, it is already there in almost all countries for... 100% of gdp is off the charts, this is of course a threat to the entire world economy, due to the large size

of the european market, if there are problems in europe, naturally they will be felt in others regions, we remember the same asian financial crisis of the nineties or global finances of 2008, when european banks or companies begin to suffer losses in their markets and begin to withdraw profits from other regions of the world. where, in principle, everything is fine, yes, then problems begin there too, there is a lot of talk about the fact that military spending is growing in europe now, and because of this, spending on aid, development is being cut, well, as even unofficial european colleagues admit to me, no one can do anything about it, their it's just that no one listens, the question that is very acute here for obvious reasons, will it appear in the world in any foreseeable future?

openly announce the transition to settlements in yuan and other currencies, and russia had to do this, so i think this is the future, because countries see that it is too risky to rely on the dollar, these assets can be confiscated from you at any moment, i think our chairmanship in brics will contribute to these processes, because the dollar is honestly, let's say, very convenient, if you distract yourself from political risks, the system worked well, well, it was convenient. but everything worked, but everyone became hostages of this system, i think,

having seen what happened to our assets, other countries do not want to repeat this experience. as a representative of russia, do you feel, i don’t know, obstruction, isolation, some kind of bad personal attitude. i’m not talking about the professional sphere now. in march of the twenty- second year, accordingly, all western shareholders began to speak out. statutory documents, despite the fact that we constantly turned to them, and the first months,

western colleagues, well, everyone probably remembers, they tried to do the same at the un at other forums, during our spring session of governors, during the speech of the russian representative, seven or eight ministers of western countries ran out of the hall, then it was very funny to watch how they stood behind the glass door. they looked at the lips, when the russian deputy minister would finish his speech, to return, but as they say, they punished themselves, because when seven or eight people no longer... i remember exactly how they ran out of the hall, it turned out that the majority stayed in place, the fact that we only have 25 members, they saw that they were in the minority, and this position on isolating russia by criticism, it does not enjoy support, after that people stopped running out, in principle the attitude towards us became more

respectful, i personally do not feel attacks. well , except for representatives of the usa and canada, they generally do not greet us and avoid any even visual contact, if they come to meet us in the corridor, they turn away eyes, i don't know what they're afraid of, we were able to unite the representatives of the global majority, the global south, that is, if earlier the developing countries spoke rather disparately, there was no common position, and the westerners, on the contrary, coordinate weekly on... the agenda item: to issue joint statements, we were able to consolidate this group, it's called group 11, but it represents more than 120 countries, and now we have weekly meetings where we coordinate the position, in principle we have managed to even out the balance interests, i think that in the future , control over these institutions will definitely go to

the global south, simply due to demographic trends, the gdp ratio. therefore, we are not dramatizing the situation, as i said, such furious attacks have already ceased, because at the beginning of 2022, some western directors openly called for me to be deprived of the microphone, to be thrown out of the hall, but fortunately all these attempts were stopped, now the atmosphere is constructive in principle, and you represent syria in addition to russia, what is the work in this capacity? syria, unfortunately, has not yet managed to achieve the unfreezing of cooperation, again for political reasons, even last year, when there was a devastating earthquake in syria, in principle, the bank's management prepared a humanitarian grant for 100 million dollars, the westerners blocked the provision of this aid, although aid was provided to turkey, and again,

conditions are put forward for an incomprehensible political settlement. we explain that syria, a member of the world bank, has the same rights to receive funds as ukraine, other countries, but unfortunately, double standards prevail here, that is, good, in quotes, countries can be given money in violation of any conditions of the statutory norms, the so-called bad ones, even if there is justification for the money, are denied, understandably. thank you very much, we had roman marshavin as our guest. economic problems do not paint any political system in a good light, an economic crisis entails social ones. venezuelans have known this firsthand for a long time. a potentially fabulously rich country is again in a fever. the victory of nicolas

maduro is not recognized in the recent presidential elections. the powers are not more important than the latin american neighbors, to arakos is no stranger to external pressure, but the confrontation is given with increasing creaking, the population is tired, sketches from venezuelan life from eugenia to madrid. they say that a time of crisis is a time of great opportunities, and indeed in venezuela, which has been under tough sanctions for 10 years during the economic crisis, with fabulous speed. more and more new businesses and enterprises appear, as well as thieves, scammers and fraudsters. after the introduction of american sanctions, the country found itself on the brink of economic disaster, many survived thanks to money transfers from abroad, but years later venezuela more or less established supplies with the help of such friendly countries as china and iran. prices stopped rising, and even some

variety of goods and services appeared. and here ostap benders of various stripes blossomed. "i am waiting for my clients, who are now writing a statement to the prosecutor's office about large-scale fraud. this swindler's name is count von luxburg. it seems that he pretended to be a german count and deceived hundreds of venezuelans with the help of a financial pyramid. john r. kubiyan has been supporting foreign investors in venezuela for the last year. his daily routine is similar to each other: lawyers, investigations, professionals who can bypass red tape. he has to work on two cars. because, according to jonar, one of them is definitely in for repairs, well, what again, it looks like the sensor has failed, we'll scan it now, but i'm sure it's him again. literally good spare parts flood the country, the most profitable business in recent times has become the car towing service or a mechanic's visit to your home

. for us, this is a common practice: we install spare parts, they break down, it happens that the same week the client can't even start the car, well then we go to his aid, to at least help him save money on towing. the prices for spare parts are sky-high, and if the client wants a guarantee, then this is already. not only is the gasoline of terrible quality, the whole city is smoky, they sell diluted oil, sometimes you look, like recently filled with oil, the indicators are normal, but it still disappeared somewhere, and smoke is pouring out of the car. r considers himself one of those who were able to honestly monetize this disgrace. it works, helping clients, but at the same time he restores justice, those who really cause his indignation are those who profit from their own neighbors, for example, sew labels with

the name of their luxury boutique on consumer goods. so i decided to drink some coffee and relax a little, because i don't have enough anger for people. my children decided to give me a new stove because mine is in a deplorable state, so i go to the center of caracos, where i... they persuade me to buy this model, when i paid for the goods and transportation, it turns out that this is a model for bottled gas, and now they themselves offer me to drill the burners for $ 20 each. semiramist believes that in this country it is simply impossible to relax. even street bandits and thieves could not stand it in the midst of the crisis and went to neighboring colombia to work part-time. and now it seems that when the economy at least it stabilized, they are coming back. look what i found, someone had their wallet stolen right here at the bus stop, you see, these are the papers of some woman who was robbed, and these documents

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