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just to get a few crumbs for our football teams

To pick up a few billion in exports, we’re now willing to sell anything to anyone. We’re willing to become a tax haven, to have oligarchs and multinationals paying less in taxes than the middle and working classes, to ally with rather unprogressive oil emirates just to get a few crumbs for our foot…

—p.140 The Exorbitant Cost of Being a Small Country (139) by Thomas Piketty
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picayune

when we chose to share monetary sovereignty and set extremely picayune rules on public deficits

—p.119 A New Europe to Overcome the Crisis (117) by Thomas Piketty
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