February 20, 2020

Never create a dependency on something that might not be able to deliver.

Sir, this would be my response to Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s “Setting an EU budget is about more than arithmetic” February 20.

Prime minister I would agree with most here stated but, if I were a prime minister of Poland, the first question I would make before any budget discussion would be:

Eurozone, how do you intend to disarm that bomb of all Eurozone sovereign’s debts, for purposes of bank capital requirements, having been assigned a zero percent risk weight, even though none of these can print euros on their own will? 

If that bomb is not disarmed, EU might sadly end up as a failed intellectual fantasy, something which could have horrible consequences.

Or Prime Minister, let me put it like this: 

A budget does wittingly or unwittingly always create some kind of dependency, and the last thing a government should do, for the nation or for its citizens, is to create a dependency on something that might not be able to deliver. 

PS. Just think about all that dependency on pensions and social security people have, and that will not be delivered.

PS. I am a Polish citizen who does not speak Polish because of a gender issue. My mother tongue, which I speak fluently, is Swedish.

@PerKurowski