May 12 2007
Karl-Heinz Grasser
Do you know who’s he without googling? The youthful, handsome Austria’s finance minister from 2000-07, who married Fiona Swarovski, the crystal heiress… Grasser (1969-) seemed to fit for both Wall Street and main street as gossip materials. But I haven’t, guess I didn’t read widely enough. Or should I feel privileged that the country I was born and the country I chose to live are of consequences 举足轻重?
“Even the revised pact [European Union's tarnished stability and growth pact] was better than nothing,” he says. “It would be good for all European politicians to go to Shanghai to see how the world is really moving. They are really gaining competitiveness, and that’s what we have to face up to. We are too smug, we are not working hard enough.” It that SO?