Monday, Feb 6th 2012
The following is from Frank Keoghan of the People’s Movement on the Austerity Treaty. It was also published in the latest issue of People’s News.
The EU Permanent Austerity Treaty will be the final nail in the coffin of the Irish economy, if it is ratified either by the Dail or by referendum. It will also [...]
I have an article on Politico.ie about the Fiscal Compact Treaty, and how all the economic decisions made by the Irish government are not dictated to them by our “EU masters” but follow the usual power template of Ireland’s “comprador class”.
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The final draft of the Fiscal compact is now available, meaning Irish pundits can no [...]
Please circulate this statement far and wide within your trade union
UNI Europa, the European regional organisation of the UNI global trade union federation, has described the EU fiscal stability treaty as “anti-social, anti-democratic and anti-European.” Trade unions are mobilising across Europe to stop governments from cementing in neo-liberal austerity policies for years to come.
“With this [...]
Ireland has one of the most attractive tax rates for fracking companies in the world
Very important point made by Natural Gas Europe here (posted on Shell to Sea) about the licencing agreement around Shale Gas (Fracking) and needs to be understood in the context of the news today that Tamboran Resources initial exploration in north Leitrim [...]
The Government, in signing the Fiscal Treaty, has effectively committed itself to introducing up to €6 billion more in tax increases and spending cuts in the medium-term, over and above what it has already planned. While the news in the short-term will, understandably, focus on whether a referendum will be necessary, once attention starts honing [...]
What are bankers doing inside EU summits? | Corporate Europe Observatory
Important information here on the extent of bank lobbies influence in the resolution of the Greek debt crisis, particularly when it comes to plans which require ‘private sector involvement’.
At the Euro Summits in July and October 20111, crucial decisions “to save the Euro” and “to [...]
The eurozone will pay a high price for Germany’s economic narcissism
Hans Kundnani in the Guardian on the German minimalist approach to the euro crisis as informed by ordoliberalism, which is…
“…a peculiarly German form of economic liberalism influenced by Adam Smith but also by 20th-century German history. Developed in the 1930s and 1940s by Walter Eucken and [...]
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Workers of Europe unite, you’ve only euro chains to lose
We’re all swivel-eyed eurosceptics now!
Note the outburst last week by Pedro Nuno Santos, socialist vice-president in Portugal’s Assembleia. “We have an atomic bomb that we can use in the face of the Germans and the French: this atomic bomb is simply that we [...]
What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe
Old news now perhaps, but a useful reference for Michael Youltan’s piece on the front page.
Picking up well-connected policymakers on their way out of government is only one half of the Project, sending Goldman alumni into government is the other half. Like Mr Monti, Mario Draghi, who [...]
AGGRESSOR : in plain English a country or organisation(s) that begins hostilities provoking reaction
(In the text below I will try to develop and share some of the thoughts and ideas generated by the podium presentations and the discussion that followed during the ULA meeting in Dublin’s Wynns Hotel last Tuesday night).
It is becoming abundantly clear [...]
