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LEIGH PHILLIPS
11.03.2009
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS -
While EU and other global leaders have talked tough about re-regulating the financial sector in the wake of the economic crisis, they remain committed to pushing through banking deregulation in the developing world via trade deals.
This strategy is undermining poverty reduction in these countries and is reproducing the same type [...]

LISBON - NOT JUST ANOTHER EU TREATY

Below are the two key sentences of the amendment which you will be asked to put into the Irish Constitution on Thursday 12 June. If people vote Yes they will be giving the European Union the constitutional form of a Federal EU State, in which Ireland would [...]

WHAT THE TREATY OF LISBON WOULD DO
“France was just ahead of all the other countries in voting No. It would happen in all Member States
if they have a referendum. There is a cleavage between people and governments…There will be
no Treaty if we had a referendum in France, which would again be followed [...]

Please see update at http://www.nationalplatform.org/wordpress/?page_id=94
The Constitutional Implications of the Treaty of Lisbon
- Giving the EU the constitutional form of a State
“The pooling of coal and steel production should immediately provide for the setting up of common
foundations for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe.”(emphasis added)
- Schumann Declaration, 9 May 1950, [...]

WHAT TOP EU POLITICIANS SAY ABOUT THE LISBON TREATY/ EU CONSTITUTION
(These quotations are in chronological order backwards)
“France was just ahead of all the other countries in voting No. It would happen in all Member States if they have a referendum. There is a cleavage between people and governments… A referendum now would bring Europe into [...]

Christopher Booker and Richard North, “THE GREAT DECEPTION: CAN THE
EUROPEAN UNION SURVIVE?”; revised paperback edition, 2005; Continuum
Publishers, London and New York;ISBN 0-8264-8014-4; Euros 14.60 or £10
sterling Web-site: www.continuumbooks.com; E-Mail:<info@continuumbooks.com>

Reviewed by Anthony Coughlan

This is the most important book ever to be written on the European Union.
It is a detailed 600-page account of the European integration [...]

*** EU INTERFERES IN SERBIA-MONTENEGRO

The EU has welcomed the election of a new pro-independence leaderin Kosovo,
while urging Montenegran and Serb politicians to agree on an upcoming
referendum that could break up the Serbia-Montenegro alliance.

What business is it of the EU to be backing independence for the former
Serbian territory of Kosovo or to be trying to break [...]

*** WAR WARNINGS ON USEFUL INFO WEB-SITE

“German-foreign-policy.com” is a critical web-site full of useful insights
into German foreign policy. German foreign policy is more or less the same
as EU foreign policy these days. The web-site tells us that new German
Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded more German influence in NATO at a joint
armaments conference with [...]

*** JOINING EU BATTLE GROUPS

Ireland is to join in EU “battle groups” and send Irish soldiers off
possibly to die on EU military missions.

But Irish neutrality will not be affected, squirms Defence Minister Willie
O’Dea - he who recently had his photo taken squinting down a gun barrel on
the front page of the Sunday Independent. [...]

EU ASKS GOVERNMENT FOR IRISH TROOPS FOR THE CONGO

Xavier Solana, former NATO secretary-general and aspiring EU Foreign
Minister, is asking the Government to Irish troops to the Congo as part of
an EU force to supervise elections there. Belgium, the Congo’s former
colonial ruler, which raped the entire region during the reign of its King
Leopold 2,is backing [...]