Here is evidence that the EU is planning on presenting plans to create a a European Monetary Fund with powers to over ride elected governments in regards to economic decisions. In an age where the populace is supposed to be educated in the ideas of civil rights and freedoms how can it seem like a good idea to erect super powerful levels of government which kill national rights and sovereignty. The age of fascism is rising again in Europe. This time it is hiding under the cloak of economic cooperation. Once the dust from this crisis settles the only thing left will be a gravestone for national sovereignty sitting at he door to a single European super state. The dreams of the likes of Hitler and Napoleon are coming true without a single gun being fired.
German memo shows secret slide towards a super-state
An intrusive European body with the power to take over the economies of struggling nations should be set up to tackle the eurozone crisis, according to a leaked German government document.
The six-page memo, by the German foreign office, argues that Europe’s economic powerhouses should be able to intervene in how beleaguered eurozone countries are run.
The confidential blueprint sets out Germany’s plan to tackle the eurozone debt crisis by creating a “stability union” that will be “immediately followed by moves “on the way towards a political union”.
It will prompt fears that Germany’s euro crisis plans could result in a European super-state with spending and tax plans set in Brussels.
The proposals urge that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a eurozone bailout fund that will be established by the end of next year, should be transformed into a version of the International Monetary Fund for the EU.
The European Monetary Fund (EMF) would be able to take full fiscal control of a failing country, including taking countries into receivership.
The leaked document, The Future of the EU: Required Integration Policy Improvements for the Creation of a Stability Union, comes as David Cameron meets Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in Berlin today to talk about treaty changes and the eurozone crisis.
The German plan begins with a proposal to create “automatic sanctions” that could be imposed on euro members spending beyond targets set by the European Commission. Germany is demanding that if euro rules are “consistently violated”, it should be able to demand action from the European Court of Justice.
Germany, Finland, Austria and the Netherlands would be able to ask EU courts to impose sanctions, from fines to the loss of budgetary sovereignty, to protect the euro.
The memo states the EMF would be given “real intervention rights” in the budgets of euro members who have received EU-IMF bailouts.
Open Europe, a think tank, has called for Mr Cameron to demand concessions from Mrs Merkel in exchange for the plans, which need the consent of all 27 EU countries, giving Britain a veto.
The German plan begins with a proposal to create “automatic sanctions” that could be imposed on euro members spending beyond targets set by the European Commission. Germany is demanding that if euro rules are “consistently violated”, it should be able to demand action from the European Court of Justice.
Germany, Finland, Austria and the Netherlands would be able to ask EU courts to impose sanctions, from fines to the loss of budgetary sovereignty, to protect the euro.
The memo states the EMF would be given “real intervention rights” in the budgets of euro members who have received EU-IMF bailouts.
Open Europe, a think tank, has called for Mr Cameron to demand concessions from Mrs Merkel in exchange for the plans, which need the consent of all 27 EU countries, giving Britain a veto.
Since the 19th century and into the first half of the 20th century there has been an undeniable attempt by various forces to bring Europe under a united Europe. They have spilled tremendous amounts of blood on the continent and the rest of the world. The last attempt that was visible to the masses was Hitler's which caused WWII. The odd thing that historians must realize now is that even though Hitler failed it brought about the agreements and treaties which has created a Europe united under very undemocratic means. This article makes the point of a Technocracy has always been the intent of all the treaties which has formed the European Union. A Technocracy is meant to have "experts" control the government, subverting much of the idea of free elections for people selected based on expertise. As the article says was the intent, the idea of a nation-state would eventually be a problem and fade away in favor of this expert run administration of technical processes. Anyone who respects the efforts of WWII veterans should be outraged at their efforts being for nothing. The greatest generation was setup. They fought a war which instilled the ultimate fear in a whole continent, which was taken advantage of to build a united Europe within the victors image instead of the Nazi image.
The EU's architects never meant it to be a democracy
The rise of a "technocracy" was always part of the plan for Europe.
So, as headlines scream that vain bids to save the euro threaten us with “Armageddon”, the EU’s ruling elite has toppled two more elected prime ministers, to replace them with technocratic officials who can be trusted to do Brussels’s bidding.
The new Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, was the man who, as head of Greece’s central bank, fiddled the figures to enable Greece to get into the euro (against the rules) in the first place – before being rewarded with a senior post in the European Central Bank. He is no more democratically elected than Mario Monti, who will most likely be Italy’s new prime minister and had hurriedly to be made a “senator for life” to qualify him for the job. Monti’s main qualification is that, as a former senior EU Commissioner, he has long been a member of the Brussels elite himself.
One of the few pleasures of watching this self-inflicted shambles unfolding day by day has been to see the panjandrums of the Today programme, James Naughtie and John Humphrys, at last beginning to ask whether the EU is a democratic institution. Had they studied the history of the object of their admiration, they might long ago have realised that the “European project” was never intended to be a democratic institution.
The idea first conceived back in the 1920s by two senior officials of the League of Nations – Jean Monnet and Arthur Salter, a British civil servant – was a United States of Europe, ruled by a government of unelected technocrats like themselves. Two things were anathema to them: nation states with the power of veto (which they had seen destroy the League of Nations) and any need to consult the wishes of the people in elections.
As Richard North and I showed in our book The Great Deception, this was the idea that Monnet put at the heart of the “project” from 1950 onwards, modelling his “government of Europe” on precisely the same four institutions that made up the League of Nations – a commission, a council of ministers, a parliament and a court. Thus, step by step over decades, Monnet’s technocratic dream has come to pass.
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The European Union was supposed to be a economic union, but they are working on taking this union one step closer to a massive integrated super state. World wars have been fought to stop such things.
Now the EU plans to impose its own criminal offences and punishments
Is there any limit to the ambitions of the European Union? Evidently not, if the EU's latest proposal is anything to go by. Viviane Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner, is calling for a European Criminal Policy. She evidently wants it to do for justice what the CAP and CFP have done for farmers and fishermen.Anyway, it's a frightening proposal because she is demanding the right to impose European-wide criminal offences and to set minimum sentences. And she's citing a 2005 ruling from the European Court of Justice along with the Lisbon Treaty to back up her right to implement the policy.
The court declared that the EU could impose its own criminal offences "where it is essential in order to facilitate the enforcement of EU law". But what is counted as EU law is about to massively expand.
We shouldn’t worry, apparently, because, according to Ms Reding, member states will retain an "important voice in the decision-making process" - although the decisions will actually be made at a European level.
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