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Carol, Màrius
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Spain's high-speed trains unprofitable
The Spanish railway company Renfe will close the AVE high-speed rail link Toledo-Cuenca-Albacete on July 1 after only six months in operation. As with other routes on Spain's high-speed railway network - among the largest in the world - the demand was too low. The Spanish daily La Vanguardia pokes fun at the ridiculous waste of money for the project: "Everyone here wanted an AVE link to score at the ballot box. This ghost train with its empty carriages and more staff than passengers is the parable of a country that went to bed rich and woke up poor; and went on dreaming the day after. When Merkel read the news at breakfast yesterday she no doubt cursed all the money Germany had invested in this absurd project. She probably thought it would have been cheaper to give a Mercedes to each of the nine passengers the train averaged daily rather than backing this senseless project in the land of Don Quixote."
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More from the press review on the subject » Infrastructure / Travel and Transport, » Economic Policy, » Germany, » Spain
Santa Claus must slim down
According to a study published by the British Medical Journal, Santa Claus is far too fat and serves as a poor role model as far as eating habits go. Màrius Carol fears in the daily La Vanguardia that Santa Claus et al are in for rough times in a politically correct world: "Today's world is so politically correct that the problem isn't global warming but the freezing of reason. ... As a figure Santa Claus has not yet been the focus of such attacks, but his days are numbered. Any time now he'll be put on a diet and banned to an exercise machine (just like the way Bibendum, the Michelin tire symbol, was slimmed down). But he'll be in for even worse times when people see fit to arraign him for cruelty to reindeer."
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More from the press review on the subject » Public Culture, » Health and Medicine, » United Kingdom, » Global
Is only Madoff to blame?
Following the sentencing of billion-dollar defrauder Bernard Madoff the daily La Vanguardia praises the efficiency of US justice. But some doubts remain: "It's surprising that Madoff is being given all the responsibility and no one is bothering to examine to what extent the US financial supervisory bodies or the auditing companies, the institutes that looked after the money and the banks that traded with it were to blame. Irrespective of whether it was incompetence or intentional, it's surprising to see them get away scot-free. It's true that governments have taken measures to exert stronger control over the financial markets but many people have lost their assets or their savings through this fraud."
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More from the press review on the subject » Fiscal Policy, » Financial Markets, » Banks, » U.S.
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