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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
national / eu / event notice Tuesday February 28, 2012 - 14:41 by Michael Youlton
The government is hiding behind the referral of the agreement to the Attorney General, attempting to give the impression that the final decision rests with her office and that an opinion by her that a referendum wasn’t required by the Constitution, would be the end of the matter. This is false. The Attorney General only advises, it is the government that is supposed to decide. Say No to EU Austerity Treaty – Bailout People Not Banks – Public Meeting, Liberty Hall, Monday March 5, 7.30pm ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 21, 2012 - 01:04 by O.O'C.
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The Government seems determined to push ahead in the next few months with the ratification of two important treaties: the “Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union” and the revised “Treaty on the European Stability Mechanism.” The two treaties would make member-states of the euro zone into regimes of economic austerity, involving deeper and deeper cuts in public expenditure, increases in indirect taxes, reductions in wages, sustained liberalisation of markets, and the privatisation of public property. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / feature Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 07:20 by PAW
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A Uachtaráin,
It is my assertion that the current government of the Irish Republic is attempting to initiate changes that will negatively impact the welfare of the people of Ireland. An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny T.D. is seeking to circumvent the initiation of a referendum by seeking to have a ruling from the Attorney General which will deny the people of Ireland our constitutional right to self determination which is also a principle of international law. I am hereby petitioning you with respect in your capacity as Uachtarán na hÉireann to invoke your powers under Article 27.5.1 to call a referendum on the ESM Treaty, a proposal I believe is of such national importance that the will of the people should be accordingly ascertained. Article 15.4.1° The Oireachtas shall not enact any law which is in any respect repugnant to this Constitution or any provision thereof. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu / news report Sunday November 20, 2011 - 22:44 by ND
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Photos showing the fascist Greek deputy minister Voridis at his youth, carrying an axe during an assault against a peaceful demonstration of anarchist college students.
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international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 28, 2011 - 19:45 by Paddy Hackett
Printing money, currency devaluation, changing interest rates, debt accumulation and public works involve tinkering with circulation.Manipulating the circulation of capital constitutes a superficial remedy that,in the long run, solve nothing while making things worse. The appearances of capitalism (such as the circulation of capital) are mistaken for its essence. The market disguises the real nature of capitalism ... read full story / add a comment
The Government should come clean with the Irish public about the European Stability Mechanism Treaty
national / eu / press release Friday September 23, 2011 - 13:49 by O.O'C
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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. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday August 30, 2011 - 21:53 by O.O'C.
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It is seen by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, as well as by its Fianna Fail predecessor, as a way round the restrictions on ratifying new EU Treaties without constitutional referendums here which were laid down by the Supreme Court in its 1987 Crotty judgement. There is still a little time left for Ireland to foil this power grab by the Eurozone elite if our political leaders can summon the courage to serve the Irish people rather than themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Wednesday August 17, 2011 - 17:04 by Malachy Steenson
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Padraig Mannion, EU spokesperson of the Workers' Party, has slated the Merkel-Sarkozy plan for the Euro as economically incompetent and politically disastrous, and said it must be rejected out of hand by the government ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 03, 2011 - 21:07 by O. O'C
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“The member states whose currency is the euro may establish a stability mechanism to be activated if indispensable to safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole. The granting of any required financial assistance under the mechanism will be made subject to strict conditionality.” - Amendment to Article 136 of the EU Treaties (TFEU) which was decided on by the 27 EU Member States at the March European Council summit and which licensed the 17 Eurozone States to sign the European Stability Mechanism Treaty on yesterday week, 11 July. This ESM Treaty would establish a permanent EU bailout fund from 2013. The ESM Treaty and the Art.136 EU Treaty amendment which authorises it now go around for ratification by the Member States. The Government has decided not to put it to referendum here even though it means more power to the EU. The ESM Treaty can be downloaded from the internet. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / event notice Thursday June 02, 2011 - 11:21 by Kieran O'Sullivan
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WE WANT JOBS, FAIRNESS & DEMOCRACY BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE NOT THE BANKERS ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / event notice Wednesday May 11, 2011 - 22:36 by Action on Debt
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Whether we like it or not Ireland is now a colony of the EU and the IMF, who dictate every aspect of public policy. Instead of our taxes being spent on our local services, whose wages would be by and large spent locally and bolster our econonomy, we are forced to pay off foreign corporations who are free to invest this wealth wherever they see fit. Its time for the Irish people to decide. This is our country and these issues are too importent to be left up to those who have proven cannot be trusted on these issues. It is after all, our future and our lives and those of our children and grandchildren are at stake. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday February 17, 2011 - 19:58 by Communist Republican
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A very timely and useful analysis of how Sinn Fein policy has moved significantly to the right in relation to the EU has appeared in the current edition of the Socialist Voice. It looks at how the party is now heading towards the right on the EU and that drift to the right is not an accident and will not end there. This has implications for republicans and socialists in this country and for all Irish people especially with the projected increases in SF support in the national elections next week. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / eu / event notice Friday January 14, 2011 - 16:07 by frank keoghan
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Dublin Thursday next - 20 January 2011 People's Movement Protest Reject the EU-imposed finance bill! Leinster House, Kildare Street Thursday, 20 January 2011, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / eu / event notice Wednesday December 01, 2010 - 15:07 by Frank Keoghan
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People's Movement pre-budget protest at 1:00 Monday December 6th. The budget itself will be on Tues 7th Dec ... read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / news report Thursday November 18, 2010 - 11:29 by Andrew
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It's now official, the Irish state is in talks with the EU and the IMF about a so called 'rescue plan' to bail out the Irish capitalist class from the disaster created by the international crash of the capitalist economic system. A crisis that was magnified in Ireland by the corruption of local crony capitalism on the one hand and the dependency of the economy on 'globalization' on the other. Trapped between such a cast of crooks and idiots it is perhaps not surprising that many in Ireland hope things will be improved when the running of our lives will be handed over to those who many hope might have a clue. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / event notice Wednesday November 17, 2010 - 16:20 by Joe Higgins MEP
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In response to tomorrow's (Thursday) talks between the Irish government and the EU / IMF, the Socialist Party is calling for a protest outside the Department of Finance where the talks are to take place. Show your opposition to the austerity measures of the Irish government and the EU / IMF. Join the protest at 10.30am at the Department of Finance. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Monday November 01, 2010 - 16:43 by frank keoghan
Where are the Lisbon Jobs now? Wednesday November 3rd at 8:00 a.m. in the Convention Centre Dublin Docklands ... read full story / add a comment |
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