Most companies only focus on perimeter defense and are soft bellies once opened up or to an internal job #sonylearning
And as long as it is not practice to sue companies and Cxx for negligence when they do not internally protect the data (no unencrypted data at rest) this will not change.
As Tsipras and his party compared Mrs. Merkel to Hitler, what is happening to Greece to the Holocaust (implying fired state employees have the same fate as victims in concentration camps) and calling the German finance minister 'Gauleiter' this is a tough sell.
Most interesting is this: Many people compare other countries unemployment to US U3 not US U6/U5 while countries with gov. unemployement benefits (unemployed are people who get money, which includes people not looking or with a small amount of income) have numbers more in tune with U6/U5 and should be compared to U6/U5.
1. From the payment date of 1947 it looks more like it went into the Greek civil war - fought by Greeks against Greeks (1946-1949). Tough decision to have another war after devastating WWII.
2. Germany bought weapons for the newly built "Bundeswehr" - most of them from the US.
Main point is: Poland got a lot of money from the EU and worked hard and today is a prospering country. Greece got billions from the Marshall plan, billions from the EU through many programs, cheap credit based on the Euro and squandered all of it.
@atmosx: So your point is, only WW reperations need to be paid, if you invade a neighbour and massacre the people there, you needn't? Looks a little too specialized to be a general moral rule.
I agree Germany should pay war reperations. As should Greece to Turkey and the Balkan for their invasions there, as should France to Germany for the napoleonic wars, Sweden to my hometown where they've killed nearly everyone and razed the city, the US for Vietnam to Laos. All the colonial powers should pay what they stole from their colonies, the UK to India, France to Africa. The US to the Philipines. France and the UK should pay and clean up the mess they've created in the middle east. I totally agree.
Germany is importing work (which is not measured in the usual import/export KPIs) on massive scale with money going back to the originating countries. This has been going on with Italy and Turkey over decades (60-80), with Poland in the 90s and currently with Spain and Eastern European countries.
Real import/export KPIs would take this into account. Then I would assume Germany is a net importer not exporter.
Exactly. This needs to stop immediatly. Suicide rates in Germany are 4X (!) as high as in Greece. Germany is living on an extreme austerity program since more than 10 years - the Agenda 2010 implemented by the socialists in 2003. Cuts to unemployed people, cuts to families, cuts to everyone, stagnation of income for over a decade except for the top 1%. Where do they think this should end?