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There is still a little time left for Ireland to foil this power grab by the Eurozone elite

category national | eu | press release author Tuesday August 30, 2011 21:53author by O.O'C. - The National Platform for EU Research & Informationauthor address 24 Crawford Avenue, Dublin 9author phone 00-353-1-8305792 Report this post to the editors

This ESM Treaty is the first use of the “self-amending” Article 48.6 TEU of the EU Treaties which was inserted by the Treaty of Lisbon.

It is seen by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, as well as by its Fianna Fail predecessor, as a way round the restrictions on ratifying new EU Treaties without constitutional referendums here which were laid down by the Supreme Court in its 1987 Crotty judgement.

There is still a little time left for Ireland to foil this power grab by the Eurozone elite if our political leaders can summon the courage to serve the Irish people rather than themselves.

“Ireland entered the euro in 1999 and lost control of the two vital monetary instruments: setting interest rates and setting currency exchange rates. Had Ireland remained outside the euro, its bankers would not have gained access to the euro zone’s vast and low interest borrowing opportunities. Without the outlandish credit available within the euro zone, the building bubble, the resultant government tax windfalls and Ahern’s, McCreevy’s and Cowen’s spending splurge would have been impossible. The country would not now be in receivership . . . For Ireland there has not been a shared and equitable European solution. The banks, mainly German, which lent rashly, are receiving a 100 per cent bailout. Not from those who borrowed, but from the Irish tax payer. Apart altogether from the unfairness of the imposed solution, it will not work, because it cannot.”
- Professor Edward Walsh, founding President, University of Limerick, Beal na mBlath oration, Irish Times, 22-8-2011


We need a public enquiry into the sheer civic irresponsibility and governmental incompetence of the politicians and senior bureaucrats who pushed the Irish State into the Euro area in 1999:

* an area whose one-size-fits-all interest rate policy was set to suit Germany and France and had the effect of turning the “Celtic Tiger” boom into a bubble;

* an area with which we did little more than one-third of our foreign trade, so that the subsequent falls in the dollar and sterling exchange rates have greatly added to our economic uncompetitiveness;

* an area whose banking policy is decided by the European Central Bank, which told Messrs Cowen and Lenihan at the time of the blanket bank guarantee in September 2008 that no Irish bank must be let fail, so that the €30 billion debts of insolvent Anglo-Irish would be imposed on Irish taxpayers and the German, British and French banks which had recklessly lent to Anglo and the other Irish banks to stoke our property bubble would get their money back.

British Chancellor George Osborne stated in early August that the Eurozone should move towards a fiscal union, with supranational control on budgets, taxes and public spending in order to shore up the euro-currency, but that the UK would not be joining that.

This marks an important change in UK Government policy, which has sought since 1961 to be at the heart of the EU, sharing basic EU policy-making with Germany and France.

If the Irish State goes along with moves towards a Eurozone fiscal union, while the North stays with sterling in the UK, it must profoundly deepen the political-economic gulf between North and South in Ireland.

The Coalition Government in Dublin is now preparing to ratify the European Stability Mechanism Treaty for the Eurozone which Finance Minister Michael Noonan signed on 11 July, as well as the Article 136 TFEU amendment to the EU Treaties which permits that, without a constitutional referendum.

The ESM Treaty commits Ireland “irreversibly and unconditionally” to contributing €11 billion in various forms of capital to the ESM Fund from 2013, with provision for regular capital increases thereafter.

This mechanism is seen by Germany and France as the way to establish a two-tier EU, with themselves effectively running an inner-core Eurozone, and the Irish State, if it remains with the Euro-currency, effectively reduced to being a permanent financial fiefdom of Germany and its allies.

This ESM Treaty is the first use of the “self-amending” Article 48.6 TEU of the EU Treaties which was inserted by the Treaty of Lisbon.

It is seen by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, as well as by its Fianna Fail predecessor, as a way round the restrictions on ratifying new EU Treaties without constitutional referendums here which were laid down by the Supreme Court in its 1987 Crotty judgement.

There is still a little time left for Ireland to foil this power grab by the Eurozone elite if our political leaders can summon the courage to serve the Irish people rather than themselves.

- Anthony Coughlan, Director, The National Platform for EU Research & Information

Related Link: http://www.nationalplatform.org
author by Tpublication date Wed Aug 31, 2011 13:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There is no time left, because all the main liar and deceptive parties would have been aware of this for the Lisbon Treaty and since they signed up to that, then there is absolutely no reason they are going to change anything now. The people of Ireland would have to rise up for this to be stopped because even if there was a massive protest which is vainishingly small, it would be completely ignored and have no effect on policy.

We ought to remember that both the NICE Treaty and Lisbon Treaty were sold to us in a totally dishonest way from beginning to end.

author by Told you sopublication date Wed Aug 31, 2011 15:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ah few years back I wrote about this when Lisbon was rightly called the CONstitution of the EU and about the self amending clause. I said a global economic crisis would be enginered to justify a much the end of any remaining self-determination among nation states in the run up to the New World Order's final goal and was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.

author by Glengarapublication date Mon Sep 12, 2011 14:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ireland has a choice to make.
Hand over the rest of what we have after bailing out the (primarily) Gernan and Franch bondholders to Germany and France or we should once again change our currency and use the British Pound or the US Dollar as our currency. I know there would be severe objections by many to using sterling but it is a strong currency. I have always maintained we are closer to the UK and USA than to the Germans and French and we should keep our relationship with UK and USA no matter what the cost ahead of our relationship with Europe.
Whilst the Dollar is something we should seriously consider also, the Dollar could have its problems in the near future due to the level of debt of America.
ok Mr Obama, Ireland is for sale to be the 51st state for X billion or ok Queenie, we are for sale for X billion Pounds --- Irish people cannot live with 3rd rate infrastructure as hospitals amongst other necessary services close or are seriously cut back.

 
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