Ken Loach says austerity has 'brought us to near catastrophe'
Alberto Pizzoli British Ken Loach celebrates after being awarded with the Palme d'Or for the film "I, Daniel Blake" during the closing ceremony
Cannes - Arab Today
Left-wing British director Ken Loach hit out at austerity in Europe Sunday after winning the top Palme d'Or top prize at the Cannes film festival for a movie which showed the shame of poverty.
"The world we live in is at a dangerous point right now. We are in the grip of a dangerous project of austerity driven by ideas that we call neo-liberalism that have brought us to near catastrophe," he said as he accepted the award.
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