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No. 229 June 3 2021. Martin, Ryan and Varadkar Open to EU Treaty No. 229 June 3rd 2021. Martin, Ryan and Varadkar open to EU treaty change and referendum. It would seem that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s sights are set on an EU Health Union, as she has said that she is open to making changes to the EU's founding treaties, particularly in the area of health policy. "I believe that Europe needs more competencies in the area of health. This will probably also require changes to the treaties," Merkel said. Then, last week, Micheál Martin called for greater EU powers in the areas of public health, saying that “The case for significantly increasing the public health competencies of the European Union is stronger than it has ever been” while lauding the “tremendous success” of the EU’s vaccine policy! Mr Martin added that “all three coalition party leaders are clear that we have to open to potential treaty change” and a referendum. Read more here. Ireland proposes EU rapid response military force! Some EU states have dreams of military grandeur and while most are ex- colonial powers, it would now appear that Ireland, or at least the government, wants to join the club. It has been reported that at a recent meeting of the bloc’s defense ministers, Ireland co- sponsored a proposal with thirteen other EU countries including Germany and France calling for a rapid military response force that could intervene early in international crises. Read more here. Green Party TD wants urgent hearing of High Court CETA challenge. Green Party TD for Dublin South Central, Patrick Costello is seeking an urgent hearing of his action concerning the constitutionality of CETA, which provides for the establishment of “investor courts”. He is concerned that this system involves an unconstitutional transfer of sovereignty and judicial power and that if is brought into force without being sanctioned by a referendum; that procedure would be contrary to Articles 15 and 34 of the Constitution. Read more here. Page | 1 The EU Council and Commission are out of control! In March 2021, the EU passed the regulations for a European Peace Facility a designation which turns out to be grossly misleading, as it is about being able to finance EU military operations and arms deliveries to third countries more effectively than with the previous instruments. The facility was launched as an external budget instrument in a legal gray area outside the EU budget and it was allocated over €5 billion. So, that’s it for the EU Parliament; they can’t scrutinise it or ask for answers. The unelected EU Commission has thus acquired control of a well-stocked war chest! Read more here. German Green Party on the war path! The German Green Party is on the war path! That was the case in 1998, when then Green Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer organised Germany’s first post-war international military intervention, sending the German army to war against Serbia, and so it is again today. Currently, the German government is drastically increasing military spending, while the Greens are promoting militarism and preparations for war in their campaign for this year’s federal election. Since Annalena Baerbock was appointed the Green Party’s choice as potential chancellor, the warmongering of the Greens has taken on outright hysterical forms. Baerbock maintains that it is urgently necessary to put a stop to Russian aggression, provide Ukraine with more military support and support its admission into NATO and the EU. Read more here. The secret cult known as the EU Common Fisheries Policy! Once a year, representatives of the 27 member states on the Council of the EU meet to set the bloc’s fishing quotas. The decisions are made behind closed doors, often ignoring scientific advice. This process is contributing to the depletion of fish stocks around our coasts. The Mediterranean and the Black sea are already the most overfished regions on the planet. The High Priests of the cult consist of the 27 Governments that meet as the Council of the European Union. The Council is responsible for determining not only national fishing quotas but also the total allowable catches (TACs), with the aim of protecting the biodiversity of marine ecosystems and tackling overfishing, which is responsible for the depletion of fish stocks. From the outside, the process of setting fishing quotas can resemble an arcane ritual. Read more here. Page | 2 Waiving Covid patents or not! Last week at a Paris summit to help Africa overcome the impact of the Corona pandemic French President Macron called for a waiving of COVID vaccine patents so Africa could begin to produce its own jabs. The absence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who only sent a video greeting, was a clear indication that she is protecting the interests of the German pharmaceutical industry and opposes any waiving of patents. Of course, the BioNTech, which along with Pfizer produced the leading anti-Covid vaccine, is a German biotechnology company and its profits need to be defended. Read more here. Mozambique will soon host EU military. Mozambique will soon receive an EU military training mission to assist in combating a “jihadist” uprising in the north of the country. Leading the charge is Portugal, the former colonial masters of that country, which now holds the EU Presidency. Already Portuguese troops are on the ground and will make up half of the entire military mission. South Africa has also pledged a military contingent. To be clear it is the government in Maputo that has sought military assistance. It is also worth noting these are not the first foreign forces to try to quell this insurgency, which began in 2017 in the predominantly Muslim northern province of Cabo Delgado. The US Green Berets, plus two mercenary outfits Wagner from Russia and the South African Dyck Advisory Group (DAG) in conjunction with the Mozambican army have all failed to defeat the rebels. Both the insurgents and the Mozambican state forces have been accused of atrocities. Read more here. The EU: a cuckoo and vulture fund paradise. So the Government opted to favour cuckoo funds and the market at the expense of “Generation Rent” Why was even some well-informed progressive opinion surprised? And why is there next-to-no discussion of the role of the EU in creating the ideological hegemony of pro-market, pro-finance capital interests in this country and the other Member States of the EU? Although housing policy is considered to be reserved to the nation states under the principle of subsidiarity, the compulsory economic and fiscal policies of the EU and a historical background of strong enforcement of austerity policies, highlight the responsibility of the EU for the current housing crises. Few now believe that “Social Europe” has much to offer housing policy in the EU Member States. Read more here. Page | 3 The EU failed miserably with vaccines. When the pandemic reached Europe in the early months of 2020, it was every country for itself. France, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic rapidly introduced export bans on medical equipment. Italy, where the outbreak was most devastating, looked to China for support. Borders closed one after another. That was not how the European Union was supposed to work. Dry, legalistic and technocratic, the union is not meant to be about politics at all — it’s supposed to be about competent policymaking, conducted above the narrow interests of national states. Read the article by Chris Bickerton here. EU 'peace' fund to help Libyan coast guard? The EU is mulling the use of a special budget, designed to deliver military aid, to support Libya's coast guard. "The EU should engage more not only politically but also within the overall capacity-building initiatives," states a document, dated February this year. The document proposes using the so-called European Peace Facility as part of a deal to re-launch the stalled Libyan coast guard ‘training’ exercises. The off – budget Peace Facility comes with a €5bn war chest and allows the EU to shore up the armies of EU- friendly governments in Africa, and elsewhere. "These measures may include supplying military and defence related equipment, infrastructure or assistance," it said. Read more here. EU & Canada Agree New Rules for CETA’s ICS Appeals Body One of the assurances which the Irish government gives us about the ICS of CETA is that it will have an appeals body called the Appellate Tribunal. Barry Finnegan, Attac-Ireland, digs into recently published detail and demonstrates here that its appeals arbitrators can be part- time employees financially reliant on corporations suing governments, cases can be brought at the World Bank’s discredited ICSID, and that the trend there, as feared by anti-CETA campaigners, is that most recent cases are in the “oil, gas and mining [and] construction” sectors. Read more here. Page | 4 Health strains! One effect of the Northern Ireland Protocol is that from next January the EU will take control of medicines coming into the North. Representatives of the pharmaceutical industry say that the supply of 98% of medicines from Britain to the North is at risk of being discontinued. In the meantime according to the Regulator, the MHRA, “Under the Protocol, NI must follow the EMA centralised procedure for medicines authorisation and Tagrisso can be dispensed in Northern Ireland for patient use in line with the rest of the UK at the discretion of oncologists.” That process is much more complicated and involves delays which do not exist when a treatment is approved by the regulator. Read more here. Cold War plus! Not content with months of worsening relations and the potential for military escalation, the European Parliament has now put forward a draft report insisting the EU be more confrontational in its approach to Moscow.
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