Gordon Brown confirms at the Chilcott Enquiry ========================= Times: "Economic governance over the whole of the EU is a clear challenge to Britain and would reopen the Lisbon treaty" A leader in the Times argues: "Ms Merkel's demand that the European Council should assume powers of economic governance over the whole of the EU is a clear challenge to Britain and would reopen the Lisbon treaty. One thing is clear: Germany is making the running in Europe and the next British government will need to pay close attention to Ms Merkel." =========================== Berlusconi: Contributions from non-eurozone members should not be ruled out =========================== Europe France and Germany push for EU economic government led by EU President; French translation still refers to "economic government" despite resistance from Brown There is widespread coverage of yesterday's European Council summit in Brussels. In addition to agreeing on a Greek bailout, the draft version of the Council conclusions says that EU leaders "consider that the European Council should become the economic government of the EU and we propose to increase its role in economic surveillance and the definition of the EU's growth strategy." PA reports that Gordon Brown intervened last night to change the wording from "economic government" to "economic governance", backed by Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, and the European Commission, telling the summit dinner that the term was contentious. However, the Economist's Charlemagne blog notes that the Council conclusions in the French version still say "gouvernement économique", or 'economic government'. When asked about it in a press conference, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said, "There is no fundamental difference of view, but rather a sensitivity to certain words which has led to an asymmetrical translation." The draft conclusions say that President Van Rompuy will head a 'task force' looking at 'all options' to achieve the legal framework for economic government - which could mean EU Treaty changes. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for the Lisbon Treaty to be amended in order to prevent any repetition of the current crisis in exchange for German agreement for a Greek rescue package. The Telegraph notes that Croatia's likely EU membership next year would need an "amending Treaty", providing an easy opportunity to lever the proposals into the Treaties. The Times quotes French President Nicolas Sarkozy saying: "The economic government of Europe is the European Council, which has been taken up by the 16 [eurozone members]. It is still a subject for debate among the 27 members because our English friends are not on the same line. But we are making progress." The article also suggests that economic governance could mean handing powers to the European Council, allowing it to tell any country how to manage its national debt or to invest more in EU priority areas such as education or poverty reduction, or it could mean more powers for the EU to better monitor economies such as Greece. Open Europe Director Mats Persson is quoted in the Mail and This is Money describing the plans as "an astonishing power grab", adding: "It is a ground-breaking development which paves the way for full scale economic federalism, with the European Council controlling the economic policy of member states, particularly those that are not well managed and have large budget deficits like the UK. It is obviously a very significant move and it is hard to see how it could be forced through without a referendum in the UK." Sun Express Telegraph Irish Times This is Money Mail Guardian Independent Times WSJGordon Brown confirms the process of creating The New World Order
Friday, 26 March 2010
"It would interfere with trying to create the New World Order"- in reference to
The Iraq War.
1 minute 20 secs in to 1 minute 37 secs
Extract from Chilcott Enquiry last Friday -that the entire media refuse to discuss.
"At the back of my mind was this sense that if the international community did not act here then the international community would find it difficult to gain credibility for acting in other areas and that this New World Order we were trying to create would be put at risk."
Gordon Brown.
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