Paternalistic socialists discredit successful liberal policies
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Kristiina Ojuland
In yet another proof of the socialists’ reflex to control other people’s lives European socialists’ president Poul Nyrup Rasmussen made an unprecedented move in lecturing the successful liberal government of Estonia by suggesting them to waste more tax payers’ money and trying to prevent Estonia to join the Eurozone.
In a crude logic he suggested that Estonia should not try to stick to the 3% threshold of a budgetary deficit in order to fulfill the criteria for the adoption of the Euro. Such a bold public move calls not only for the destruction of the successful European growth and stability pact but is an unacceptable interference in Estonian affairs. (more…)