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The Government should come clean with the Irish public about the European Stability Mechanism Treaty![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() People's Movement welcomes call by elected representatives The People’s Movement welcomes today’s wake up call in this morning’s Irish Times by twenty six Oireachtas members and one MEP warning about the implications of an commitment by the Government to a very significant diminution of the sovereignty of the State, hoping that it can sleep walk the country into it. We agree wholeheartedly with their demand that the issue must be put to the country in a referendum. The Government should come clean with the Irish public about the European Stability Mechanism Treaty. Signing this Treaty last July Finance Minister Noonan committed the State to “irrevocably and unconditionally” contribute some €11 billion towards an Eurozone fund from 2013 onwards with the possibility of demands for further sums down the line. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2This would seem to be part of a trend over the past decade or two of slowing diluting the power of nation states and increasing the power of these larger blocks such as the EU. Unfortunately there is nothing democractic about the transfer of power to these super-national entities. These larger entities appear to serve the needs of major corporations and financial interests.
A certain section has for a long time been harping on about soverignty and the role of money and they were largely ignored and seen as irrelevant but now that we are in this financial crisis (of capitalist) at least 3 years and vast sums have been transferred to the extremely wealthy who largely remain faceless, it is also apparent that the crisis has been used to speed up the transfer of power away from nation states (Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain etc) through these demands for further austerity on top of major cut-backs. And governments everywhere are duly and obediently following these orders. It is quite clear that groups other than national governments are calling the shots.
Mechanism such as the ESM described above seem to be simply ways to lock down these power gains and entrench them by legal means so that it will become virtually impossible to undo in the remote event that people actually wake up to what is going on.
The trouble is though it's not just one thing (such as the ratification of European Stability Mechanism Treaty for example) which now desperately needs attention, if the people of the Republic of Ireland are ever to get around to looking after their own best interests in a sensible and responsible way: it's a long string of things, and, to understand the overall set of dangers, I believe it's best to try and look at the overall set of threats.
In a very rough and ready way, I have tried to do something of this sort in the e-mail sent earlier today to our "Presidential Hopefuls" at the following address:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PresidentialHopefuls/...l.htm