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 Thursday September 05, 2002 13:14 by Blisset (slight return)
 Corporate Europe Observer on Nice and Democratic Deficit on Trade Issues as Result of Nice Treaty In previous issues of the Corporate Europe Observer, we have reported European industry lobby groups campaigning to influence the negotiations on the new EU Treaty, which was finalised at the Summit in Nice in December 2000. One of the main corporate demands was for further centralisation of the EU's decision-making on international trade, through changes in the EU Treaty's Article 133. Diverse NGOs and grassroots groups from around Europe campaigned against giving the European Commission "fast-track" powers, which would further deepen the democratic gap. Kenneth Haar, SOS-WTO Denmark, looks at what the Nice Treaty means for the EU's international trade policies. — By Kenneth Haar, SOS WTO (Denmark Complete Article at http://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/observer8/nice.html |
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Jump To Comment: 1Maybe the Left No to Nice Groups can ask for public declarations of support from these groups on the basis of Article 133. I bet most of these groups do not know that Erron is perhaps the only place on earth that has a (second) vote on Global Privatisation.
http://www.citizen.org/trade/wto/gats/Sign_on/articles.cfm?ID=1584