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national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 01, 2012 09:27 by Sonya Oldham
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Does the Fiscal Compact Treaty Deal with the Cause of the Crisis?
What Caused the Crisis? The collapse of the Irish banking system was principally caused by a failure of regulation and the reckless lending practices of the Irish and European banking system. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday April 30, 2012 20:02 by O.O'C.
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TO: Professor Colm McCarthy Department of Economics UCD Dublin 4 Sunday 29 April 2012 Dear Colm, I am writing to you to make some points arising from your comments on the so-called Fiscal Treaty and the referendum on it on RTE’s Morning Ireland last Tuesday morning. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Friday April 27, 2012 16:29 by O.O'C.
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The German austerity dictate is leading to new economic and social turbulence in the indebted counties of the southern Euro-zone. read full story / add a comment
tipperary / eu / event notice Wednesday April 25, 2012 21:50 by anon
There is a public meeting in Clonmel on May 2nd on why you should vote no to the Fiscal Treaty NO to household Charges - NO to Fiscal Treatry read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday April 25, 2012 18:07 by O.O'C.
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The grandly titled "Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union" is supposedly about "stability" in the Eurozone. Yet the treaty warns us that money from the new permanent European Stability Mechanism bailout fund will only be given to States that have ratified it. read full story / add a comment
wexford / eu / press release Wednesday April 25, 2012 10:51 by Oisín Ó Conail
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The new County Chairman of Wexford Sinn Féin has called for a no vote to the so-called "Fiscal Compact" Treaty in the upcoming referendum - (formally, the intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union). Oisín Ó Conail, a farmer and recent economics graduate from Foulkesmill, was elected the new Chairperson of Sinn Féin in County Wexford, at a Comhairle Ceantar meeting in Enniscorthy last Tuesday night. Mr Ó Conail said his first duty would be to help lead the County Wexford campaign of opposition to what he terms ‘the Permanent Austerity Treaty’. read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / feature Tuesday April 24, 2012 06:00 by Sonya Oldham
21 comments (last - saturday april 02, 2022 00:32)  2 images 1 attached file
Once again we are being asked to vote on yet another EU treaty. This time it is the Fiscal Treaty otherwise known as the permanent austerity treaty. Most of the people of Europe are against this treaty and they are once again relying on us although as usual most of the governments of Europe are for the treaty because well they represent the people in power -the large banks, corporations and financial elite in general. As we know they call the shots these days in every country and it has got to the stage where "investors" will lend money to governments and charge a nice rate of interest too and in this way they get to decide how much they will allow governments to spend on luxuries for the middle class and poor like health, education, social welfare, pensions, water and sewage etc. And since the financial crisis they have come to the realization that none of this is neccesary. In fact the only arms of government really required are the police, army, courts and prisons. Anyhow in this feature the folks from People's Association Watchdog have done a really good job in going through the Fiscal Treaty line by line and doing alot of other research and analysis to discover and explains what it really means. And don't forget if enough of us vote No, the government will be back to give us plenty of more chances to vote Yes, just like they did with the Nice Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Saturday April 21, 2012 22:59 by Republican Sinn Féin
As part of its campaign against the 26-County Austerity Treaty Republican Sinn Féin have launched a campaign website: www.nofiscaltreaty.net read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Thursday April 19, 2012 22:07 by pat c
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Picket on this conference Friday – Gate of Dublin Castle – off Dame St - 4:30 onwards: A political union now? Towards a more integrated Europe - A Panel of European Affairs Ministers No to the Permanent Austerity Treaty! For a referendum on the ESM. All welcome. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Thursday April 19, 2012 20:30 by Paul Doran
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Public information meeting about the forthcoming referendum on the permanent austerity treaty and building a NO campaign in the Clondalkin area. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Wednesday April 18, 2012 13:17 by O.O'C.
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Legal Proceedings have taken by Thomas Pringle TD, member of the Dáil for the Donegal South-West constituency, challenging the Irish Government on fundamental aspects of a far-reaching amendment to the EU treaties. Both the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Treaty and the Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (Fiscal Compact) Treaty are under consideration. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 18, 2012 13:00 by O.O'C.
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A referendum on the Fiscal Treaty (‘SCG’/Stability, Coordination and Governance) is to be held in Ireland in May but the related European Stability Mechanism Treaty (‘ESM’) is not to be similarly scrutinised, much less put to the people for approval. Yet both treaties are explicitly linked and interdependent. According to the ESM Treaty both treaties are ’complementary’. The ESM Treaty is illegal under EU law as it stands and is therefore unconstitutional, being in breach of existing EU treaty principles which have been approved by the Irish people in previous referendums and are now part of our law. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday April 18, 2012 12:23 by O.O'C.
Constitutional challenge in Ireland by Independent TD to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Treaty and the Art.136 TFEU amendment to the EU Treaties purporting to authorise this Stability Mechanism. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday April 14, 2012 12:02 by O.O'C.
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Peoples Movement campaigns: against any measures that further develop the EU into a federal state; and to defend and enhance popular sovereignty, democracy and social justice in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday April 09, 2012 09:20 by Sonya Oldham
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Does the Fiscal Treaty benefit Ireland? read full story / add a comment
international / eu / event notice Saturday April 07, 2012 15:11 by Corporate Europe Observatory 1 attached file
Join Corporate Europe Observatory, Transnational Institute and representatives from social movements and trade unions across Europe for this two-day event to examine the EU’s response to the crisis, discuss democratic alternatives, strengthen networking, and develop concrete plans for action. Register now at: www.corporateeurope.org/EU-in-crisis-conf read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Wednesday April 04, 2012 19:07 by lefty
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A greek pensioner and world war II hero, shot himself on front of the greek parliament to die with some dignity rather than waiting until he had to search for food in garbage cans, and becoming a burden to hs children. Apparently Suicide rates have soared in greece. read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 04, 2012 18:51 by O.O´C.
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In a move clearly aimed at trying to upstage and divert attention from an extremely embarasing Sinn Féin private members’ motion on the ESM Treaty, the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, told the Dáil on 21 March that the Government is “now negotiating with the EU authorities, and principaly with the ECB, on the basis that the €3.06 bilion cash instalment due from the Minister to IBRC [Irish Bank Resolution Corporation] on 31 March 2012 under the terms of the IBRC promisory note could be settled by the delivery of a long-term Irish government bond. The details of the arrangement have still to be worked out.” read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 04, 2012 01:10 by O.O´C.
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The stroke? Sign up, virtually ‘on the q.t.,’ to a new permanent euro-zone bail-out fund, the European Stability Mechanism, to which Ireland will be “irrevocably and unconditionally” obliged to the tune of €11 billion, while all the time making great palaver about holding a referendum on the Fiscal Compact Treaty. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday April 02, 2012 15:04 by O.O'C.
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The Government wants the Dáil and Seanad in the very near future to approve a hugely important amendment to the EU treaties without any referendum, even though this amendment and its legal and political consequences would mark a qualitative change in the direction of the EU and in the character, scope and objectives of the Economic and Monetary Union. read full story / add a comment |
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