Jim Stewart has an excellent post on Progressive Economy which suggests that inadvertently the recent talk given by the Executive Director of the ECB, Jörg Asmussen to the IIEA in Dublin provided plenty of grounds for voting…
Tagged By Fiscal Compact Treaty
Yes vote to fiscal compact could well prove fatal | Eamon Devoy
Yes vote to fiscal compact could well prove fatal | Eamon Devoy Strong piece here from Eamon Devoy, general secretary of the Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union advocating a No vote in the Austerity Treaty. Once…
Fiscal Treaty Files: The Fiscal Treaty is Unsafe, Uncertain and Unnecessary
The following is my presentation to the Dail Committee on European Affairs. On behalf of UNITE the Union I would like to put forward seven points regarding the Fiscal Treaty. 1. The Fiscal Treaty will…
Thomas Pringle TD Challenges the Irish Government on Fundamental aspects of the ESM Treaty and the Fiscal Compact Treaty
From Thomas Pringle, Independent Irish Member of Parliament (TD) for the constituency of Donegal South-West. Legal proceedings have been initiated by Thomas Pringle T.D., Independent Irish Member of Parliament for Donegal South-West, challenging the Irish…
Inspired by big business: the EU Austerity Treaty
On the 2nd of March 2012, 25 EU member states signed what they called the ‘Stability Treaty’. It is the big business lobby’s dream come true, but social rights campaigners across Europe are calling it…
Debt Campaigners Reject ‘Blackmail’ over Treaty
Press Release from Anglo: Not Our Debt. A campaign group calling for the write down of Irish debt has labelled the link being drawn between the debt and the Fiscal Treaty as “obscene and tantamount…
10 Things You Need to Know About ‘the Fiscal Compact’
On the 2nd of March 2012, 25 EU heads of state or government will sign a new treaty, and if all goes as planned, it will enter into force early next year. The so called…
Paul Murphy’s Unpublished Letter to the Irish Times after criticism of him in their 29th of Feb Editorial
Paul Murphy’s Unpublished Letter to the Irish Times after criticism of him in their 29th of Feb Editorial Paul Murphy’s letter written as a response to the Irish Times editorial of 29th of February which criticised…
The EU fanatics have come to such a policy dead end that they really no longer care what happens to the country
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…
Time to get new negotiators
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…
EU unions’ No to EU stability treaty
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…
EU Summit Is Another Failure for ‘Austerity’
The outcome of the EU summit has widely been hailed in the British media as a triumph for David Cameron. It is rare that a complete rupture and isolation in multi-party negotiations is regarded as…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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