Europe
Following the Irish Yes to the Lisbon treaty - EU unveal its secret plans to establish itself as a global power
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.
Trois raisons de dire non au traité de Lisbonne / Three reasons to say no to the Lisbon 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).
Our Alternatives to the Global Crisis
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.
NO-MEANS-NO Campaign - Ireland please decide for Europe, and say no to the Lisbon Treaty
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)
European Activists Meeting
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
Attac Polska
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]
