[lenni]

I live in Germany and it is by no means a "giant brothel". Yes, there are large ones scattered around motorway exits and industrial parks. To me, them being tacky capitalist sex shopping centres is preferable to being underground, dingy and dangerous.

Trafficking and exploitation is definitely a problem but I'm not sure if the law change from 2001 has made matters worse or better.

[flexie]

But it is so typical for the Economist to make far fetched claims. In my view it is one of the most overrated magazines. Their use of statistics or their pseudo objective way of juxtaposing views doesn't hide that essentially their articles are just a collection of anonymous opinion pieces.

[gonvaled]

I used to read the Economist, and I was very much under the impression that they were champions of objectivity, and that they provided a very critical and unique point of view. Nothing further from the truth: they also have an agenda, so they shoehorn the facts to their conclusions. Exactly as everybody else is doing (maybe not so cleverly). I stopped reading it when I could pretty well predict what they would say about a certain topic. And currently their "I told you so" attitude disgusts me profoundly.

[adnam]

Let's not forget that the Economist has the privilege of sending journalists to Bilderberg meetings (a secretive lobby attended yearly by heads of industry and government) then not reporting on proceedings.