Philipp Bagus: Europe 25 years after the fall of the iron curtain

02/20/2015 Mises Wire Ryan McMaken

Thanks to Xiong Yue for providing Chinese subtitles to Philipp Bagus’s 2014 talk at the European Parliament about the fall of the Berlin Wall. There are English subtitles too, which are very helpful because the EP has managed to mess up the audio in multiple places.

Presented to the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group at the European Parliament, live streamed on November 12, 2014.

(Although the video thumbnail is not showing, the video does work as of the time of posting.)

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