Cypriot lawmakers reject bailout deal, weakening eurozone

Where has the democracy gone?
What the parliment of cyprus has done is save thier country from years of undemocratic eurogroup/trioka medeling and dictatorship in thier country and stop the plundering of the huge amounts of cash. This is highway robbery pure and simple and shows how low these euroextremists will go for their rotten euro.
This shows the rest of europe what these people are capable of, law or no law. They make the rules as they see fit.
This whole euro thing is breeding more and more extremists on both sides , its time to stop and go back to our own currencies and repair the damage, its getting out of hand..

Nós, na Europa, não estamos a perceber o que se está a passar! Não tem nada a ver com a liberalização económica, dos mercados, com o neoliberalismo e com as boas ou más políticas. A questão é muito mais ampla e profunda e tem a ver com uma coisa, aparentemente, muito simples - a transferência dos 'mercados predominantes'. Basta olhar para a história, se quisermos perceber isto mesmo!
Os mercados predominantes vão mudando de lugar, por várias razões: primeiro foi o mediterrâneo e as rotas do Oriente; depois o Atlântico e as rotas do Oriente (via marítima) e das Américas, e agora são as rotas do Pacífico, onde tudo está a mudar muito depressa e onde se está a nascer (a crescer) um novo mercado predominante. Nós, os da Europa, mesmo que consigamos manter a Europa como a maior economia do mundo, deixámos (no geral) de ser o mercado predominante,e passámos a ser somente os fornecedores, sem expressão, do novo mercado predominante. Por isso os pequenos negócios de comércio, as indústrias e tudo o resto está em decadência (sem retorno) o que não significa que as grandes empresas possam crescer muito mais. A questão é que por cada ponto percentual de crescimento da Europa no outro lado crescem dez vezes mais. E para a Europa se manter a maior economia do mundo (temporariamente)vai destruir-se e degradar-se, inevitavelmente. A Europa do futuro, que podemos esperar, é como um porto abandonado, lojas, fábricas, casas e tudo o resto abandonado, degradado, etc. Por outro lado, em relação á população, às pessoas, espera-se um cenário idêntico ao das grandes capitais que perderam a pujança do passado: abandono, pobreza, miséria e degradação social. Soluções? Infelizmente, como reza a história, não as há! Só por milagre conseguiríamos inverter esta tendência (histórica) e muitos já tentaram, no passado, e não conseguiram.
Recomendações (aos governantes): não queiram ser a maior economia do mundo, esqueçam a competitividade , os números e as estatísticas - não vão conseguir lutar contra o inevitável! Concentrem-se numa Europa para dentro, reduzam as ambições e tentem minimizar os efeitos desta transformação,que é inevitável.
José Catalão (sociólogo - de Portugal)

We, in Europe, we are not to understand what is going on! It has nothing to do with the economic liberalization of markets, with neoliberalism and the good and bad policies. The issue is much broader and deeper and has to do with something seemingly very simple - the transfer of the 'prevailing market'. We need only look at history to see if it's right!
The predominant markets have changed places, for several reasons: first was the Mediterranean and Eastern routes, then the Atlantic and Eastern routes (sea) and the Americas, and now is the routes of the Pacific, where everything is changing too fast and where is born (to grow) a new mainstream market. We, in Europe, even if we manage to keep Europe as the world's largest economy, we stopped (in general) to be the predominant market, and we have become one of the external suppliers of this new big market, without expression, despite all numbers. This means that we are not involved in this growth, we are only helping them to grow even more. Therefore, small business trade, industry and everything else is in decline (no return) which does not mean that large firms can grow more and more.
The point is that for each percentage point increase in Europe they, on the other hand, grow tenfold. And if Europe persists in the idea of keeping the world's largest economy, at the expense of the growth of others, will only accelerate this process and will only destroy and degrade herself, inevitably. The Europe of the future, we can hope, is like an abandoned harbor with shops closed, abandoned factories, dilapidated houses and everything else in the destruction process. Moreover, in relation to population, the people, can we expect a scenario identical to the big cities that have lost the vigor of the past: people neglect, poverty, misery and social degradation. Solutions? Unfortunately, as the story goes, there is none! Only by a miracle we could reverse this trend (historical) and many have tried in the past and failed.
What we can recommend to our rulers? Do not want to be the world's largest economy, forget the goals of competitiveness, the numbers and statistics - cannot fight the inevitable! Focus on a Europe inwards, reducing the ambitions, and try to minimize the effects of this transformation, which is inevitable but not necessarily fateful.
Jose Catalao (sociologist - PhD Student - Portugal)

There are solutions Jose, it is just that Eurozone politicians are essentially cowards when it comes to making the hard choices. Evidence of other ways of doing things are legion, but they aren't European and don't fit with some romantic notion of European exceptionalism. Well, the problems of state largesse, loss of competitiveness, fat civil services, and high taxation have come home to roost.

Europe now is moving to global irrelevance. In our modern world, you can run, but you can't hide. Turning inward and isolation is no solution; they'll just be flight of people, capital and opportunity.

Time for some really out-of-the box thinking!