Europe

The Daily Telegraph wrote an article entitled "EU draws up plans to establish itself as 'world power'"

"As we have long warned, the Lisbon Treaty increases the EU's power at the expense of the countries of Europe,

EU acquire "legal personality" which means:

• they can sign international agreements on behalf of member states.
• open embassies with ambassadors and representatives across the world
• EU will decided on foreign policy, defence, crime and judicial issues. Europe will speak with on unique voice!
• 1 "foreign minister" and EU President,

Decisions "in principle" will be taken despite the fact that Czech Republic have not yet fully ratified the new EU Treaty.

16.09.2009 | The Sunday Business Post (Irish Business newspaper) - Ecrit par le journaliste Vincent Browne.

See the original article in English: Click Here

Le 2 octobre, les Irlandais sont appelés à se prononcer sur le texte controversé. Un grand chroniqueur du pays détaille les motifs qui doivent les inciter à le rejeter.

Les raisons pour dire non au traité de Lisbonne:

- Centraliser le pouvoir décisionnel dans l’UE - Remplacer  la présidence tournante qui décentralise le pouvoir dans l’UE par un président en place pour cinq ans qui sera, par définition, le jouet des Etats les plus puissants (l’Allemagne et la France).

New statesman magazine last week has published an article written by Alex Brummer a city editor of the Daily Mail (right-wing newspaper: anti-eu, pro-capitalist...).

"Adair Turner had begun to question the morality of super-sized banks, the usefulness of the regulator and the privileged role accorded to the City by New Labor."

"He also questioned the City social usefulness and went as far as to proposal a revival of 1970's idea - the Tobin tax"

"Turner's radicalism came as a huge surprise. It placed him at odds with a government still unwilling to alienate the City and hoping that it can be revived as a source of tax revenues."

What revival there has been among the banks, notably at Goldman Sachs and Barclays, has largely been in "casino" dealings in the wholesale markets. Loans for businesses and individuals remain as restricted as ever, in spite of the billions in subvention from the government.

To read the article:

http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2009/09/turner-city-brown-fsa-pensions

Assessing the EU governments solutions to

the Financial and Economic Crisis

The financial crash is now haunting the planet for more than one year and has fully spilled over to the real economy, with the worst impacts for people still to come. Unemployment is soaring everywhere, insolvencies are reaching unprecedented levels, and social systems are even more put under pressure. This urgency however has not led the EU governments and the European Commission to truly change course. Instead of engaging in financial reforms which tackle the root causes of the crisis, the EU proposals so far are limited and short of what is needed to shape a sound financial system. The rescue and stimulus measures undertaken managed to avoid the total collapse of the economies, but are not enough to ensure a balanced system with stability in the long term.

Dear friends,

Last Friday we launched our petition to support the Irish NOO. In 4 days it was signed by more than 3.000 people and we hope to get a few thousand signatures more the coming weeks. You wil find the appeal at www.steuniersnee.nl

Also in English and you can see the supporters and read there comments.

In solidarity, Willem

please join the group and invite others!

This group is ment to give the bases for internationals campaigning communication. The NO MEANS NO refers to the first Irish decission to reject the Lisbon Treaty.

Things in progress for the no means no campaign are:

website: www.no-means-no.eu

Facebook - fanpage

Twitter account

youtube video account

this will be to some extent an viral marketing campaign via internet,

it will just have an impact if people from all over europe collaborate

"We are the ones we are waiting for!"

chief of the Hopi Indian (2001)

I created this group now at the Austrian Attac summer academy also because we should learn how to make use of this european plattform and the communication tools for networking.

We could use the blogs and wikis and event calendar for our organisational issues for the activists meeting in september.

• To do list 
• Programme
• Responsabilities
• ......

I know that as we got started by mailing list etc it's perhaps too late now to change our working tool and communication flow, but it's a try and perhaps also a learning space for some of us.

Best regards,

Edina

Majątek 358 najbogatszych miliarderów świata wynosi tyle, ile łączne
dochody 2,3 miliarda najbiedniejszych - tj. 45% ludności naszej planety.

W USA 42% majątku narodowego jest własnością 1% populacji. W innych
krajach rozwiniętych proporcje te kształtują się niewiele korzystniej,
a dysproporcje te wykazują stałą tendencję rosnącą.

Według najnowszych danych opublikowanych przez Bank Rozliczeń
Międzynarodowych, dziennie na świecie poza kontrolą rządów obraca się
walorami równymi całemu PKB (Produktowi Krajowemu Brutto) Japonii.
Roczna wartość ponadnarodowych operacji finansowych to 900 bilionów USD
- kilkanaście razy więcej niż łączny PKB wszystkich państw świata.

Oparte na czystej spekulacji transakcje walutowe osiągają równowartość
1300 miliardów dolarów dziennie. Jest to 50 razy (!) więcej, niż wynosi
wartość wymiany handlowej i niemal tyle, ile suma rezerw wszystkich
banków narodowych świata, wynoszących łącznie ok. 1500 miliardów
dolarów. [Le monde diplomatique, 07/1997 - Rene Passet, Ces promesses
des technologies de l’immatériel]