"Angela Merkel wants the December European Council meeting to agree to set up a convention to draft a new European treaty.
The treaty will create a full political union. What the Germans mean by ‘political union’ is plenty, but most importantly and dangerously it means full permanent central control over the budgets of all member states.
Or maybe just member states in the eurozone. That is not clear yet. Another German publication, this time Suddeutsche Zeitung, said the Chancellor wants to establish a ‘core Europe,’ a smaller group that will get rid of the weaker states from the single currency.
All we know for sure is that Chancellor Merkel has made it clear that she will expect the December summit to agree to a treaty convention in 2013"
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30 August 2012 7:48 AM
Our fate is now written in German
This is my piece in Thursday's Eurowatch series in the Irish Daily Mail --
First I have to tell you I resent having to find out about the fate of this country by reading German newspapers. But there it is. Even if I log-on to the website of Mario Draghi, the Italian who heads the European Central Bank, I find he now peppers his comments with words such as Schicksalsgemeinschaft. And I can remember when English was the language of international finance.
Anyway, there it is. What comes out in headlines in Der Speigel is more important to our fate than anything said on the floor of the Dail.
So what was splashed across Der Speigel this week needs to be paid attention: Angela Merkel wants the December European Council meeting to agree to set up a convention to draft a new European treaty.
The treaty will create a full political union. What the Germans mean by ‘political union’ is plenty, but most importantly and dangerously it means full permanent central control over the budgets of all member states.
Or maybe just member states in the eurozone. That is not clear yet. Another German publication, this time Suddeutsche Zeitung, said the Chancellor wants to establish a ‘core Europe,’ a smaller group that will get rid of the weaker states from the single currency.
All we know for sure is that Chancellor Merkel has made it clear that she will expect the December summit to agree to a treaty convention in 2013.
The treaty she wants will ‘prepare a new legal basis for the EU.’ More, the treaty will give the European Court of Justice the power to decide whether the budgets of member states are meeting the new rules, and the court will have the power to impose punishments. No appeal possible. Gott im Himmel.
Not, of course, that anybody in Brussels knows much about it yet. The German Chancellor just announced her plans to Der Speigel earlier this week, and left the rest of the member states and their representatives in Brussels wondering where she was going to push them next.
However, you can reckon that the men who like to call themselves ‘the four presidents’ – 
Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Mario Draghi and Jean-Claude Juncker, and, yes, each of them wants his own presidential jet to prove it – know where she’s going to push the other member states next.
Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Mario Draghi and Jean-Claude Juncker, and, yes, each of them wants his own presidential jet to prove it – know where she’s going to push the other member states next.
That is because the ‘presidents’ have themselves been trying to set up new centralised political powers, too, ever since the eurocrisis gave them an excuse for ‘more Europe.’
The banking union is the first of the ‘more Europe.’ But more of their plans will be published in October, and you can expect ‘more Europe’ in fiscal policies, financial policies, and political policies.
Yet in fact what Mrs Merkel intends is ‘more Germany.’
But why is she doing it now? For several reasons.
The first is that the German constitutional court is going to deliver a ruling on September 12th on the constitutionality, or not, of the ESM, the eurozone’s permanent bail-out fund.
So far the court has let the various bail-out deals go through, but has made it clear that control over the money of German taxpayers must rest ultimately with the German parliament.
Yet Mrs Merkel is now being pushed by EU-insiders such as Mario Monti for full debt-mutualisation, to agree to a common eurozone sovereign debt called eurobonds, in order to ‘save the euro.’
But the court holds that the German constitution forbids the mutualisation of debt. So if Mrs Merkel can get the EU to adopt a new treaty that would agree to a Germanification of the eurozone in return for debt mutualisation, then she can persuade – she thinks – the German people to agree to a new constitution to allow it to happen. This new Basic Law would allow the German government to turn over control of debt to a central European power. The euro would be ‘saved.’
Of course, German democracy would be destroyed, but euro-cult fanatics such as Mrs Merkel say they are willing to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save the euro. Taking away the power of the peoples of each nation to elect their own parliament to control their own taxes and spending is the price the euro-elite are willing to pay: indeed, are longing to pay, because they abhor democracy.
More and more in Brussels, I hear democratic decisions taken by nation states derided as ‘nationalism’ or even ‘vulgar nationalism.’
The point of the new treaty would be to strip away the powers of member states – and these are Mario Draghi’s words – ‘to pursue national policies that can cause economic harm for others.’
And who will decide whether a national policy such as, say, a low rate of corporation tax, is causing harm to other countries? Why, the euro-elite institutions themselves. No appeal possible.
Under the treaty now planned by Mrs Merkel, we will never ‘say goodbye to the troika, and regain our economic sovereignty,’ as the Taoiseach and Finance Minister have promised repeatedly.
Instead we will in effect have the troika here forever, and with powers over far more than just our budgets.
Of course, plenty of the other member states aren’t going to like it. They will certainly oppose the new treaty. But such objections are easily brushed aside.
Remember when the two powerful states of France and the Netherlands rejected the European Constitution by referenda in 2005?
Exactly. The euro-elite simply replaced the title page with the words Lisbon Treaty, scrambled the text, announced that no more referenda were needed because it wasn’t a constitution, and there it was: the European Constitution in force
Then there is the scare tactic of saying that if the eurozone countries – leave aside the non-eurozone states such as Britain for the moment – don’t agree to surrender to a new German system of euro-government, the Germans will certainly pull back to a core-eurozone of just the strongest northern countries, and the rest will be left outside to perish.
Leaving the euro is a good idea for the weak countries, but the weak countries have governments who are willing to go along with this threat of doom, and frighten their electorates into surrender. That is how the euro-elite will operate again.
And, obviously, the Irish will capitulate to whatever treaty is produced. That is established policy. Our No in the end will always mean Yes. Or from now on, Jawohl.
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