European Social Elites Need To Take Back Some Of The Money They Had Been Letting You Keep

Reuters Exclusive: EU executive sees personal savings used to plug long-term financing gap

(Reuters) - The savings of the European Union's 500 million citizens could be used to fund long-term investments to boost theeconomy and help plug the gap left by banks since the financial crisis, an EU document says.

The EU is looking for ways to wean the 28-country bloc from its heavy reliance on bank financing and find other means of funding small companies, infrastructure projects and other investment.
"The economic and financial crisis has impaired the ability of the financial sector to channel funds to the real economy, in particular long-term investment," said the document, seen by Reuters.
The Commission will ask the bloc's insurance watchdog in the second half of this year for advice on a possible draft law "to mobilize more personal pension savings for long-term financing", the document said.

But more alarming news shows up in ZeroHedge coverage of this news.


Europe Considers Wholesale Savings Confiscation, Enforced Redistribution

 In a nutshell, and in Reuters' own words, "the savings of the European Union's 500 million citizens could be used to fund long-term investments to boost the economy and help plug the gap left by banks since the financial crisis, an EU document says." What is left unsaid is that the "usage" will be on a purely involuntary basis, at the discretion of the "union", and can thus best be described as confiscation.

Read further in the Zerohedge article to discover the paper from the IMF that is calling for these kinds
of measures.