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Against the Lisbon Treaty

"At the request of the European Commission, the EU’s powerful unelected executive, member state governments are busy dismantling wellbeing states, enhancing their military forces, enacting illiberal supporting measures and neoliberal economic policies, and expressing undisguised disdain for anyone who disagrees with them..."The Common Agricultural Policy has ravaged Europe’s countryside and handed agriculture en masse to corporate farmers."The Common Fisheries Policy has emptied the seas of fish, throwing families that in many cases have relied on the sea’s bounty for generations of service out of work."Trade and development policies have benefited EU-based corporations, with negative thought known to the social, economic, and environmental consequences for developing countries..."If the Irish refuse the Lisbon Treaty a second time, they will not be rejecting collaboration between European nations, but rather a specific vision of Europe’s future that is tilted in favor of military and corporate power."- Against the Lisbon Treaty

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EU Forces

At voltairenet.org , Rick Rozoff, an analytical journalist specialising in NATO affairs, has an article entitled: EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global DominationAmong the points made:1. The EU and USA are in bed together, with the USA being the dominant partner.2. The NATO-EU-US military alliance has imperial ambitions and aims to encircle Russia.3. Three years ago, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said:"NATO and the EU are making rather good progress in coordinating the development of modern military capabilities. I am hopeful that we can extend our collaboration to extra area ... such as the Caucasus and Central Asia."(NATO International, March 31, 2005)4. In 2009, Giampaolo Di Paola, Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, beam of the "need for a new form of world governance in which NATO, the EU, and other major global organisations have a part to play." (ADN Kronos International [Italy], February 13, 2009)5. The major EU and European NATO states are the previous colonial powers - Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Germany.

Imperialism 18006. British troops are back in Afghanistan, Iraq and Sierra Leone; French ones in Haiti and Cote d’Ivoire; American carrying weapons forces are back in the Philippines.All 26 NATO states have military personnel in Iraq.7. In 2005, the EU’s Javier Solana, previous NATO Secretary General, beam about the EU’s increasing military buildup.He supposed that "by becoming a stronger and more capable global actor, we will be a better partner for the United States."He beam of the Balkans as the original testing ground for this triumvirate, “Through our concerted efforts, with the United States and NATO...."(Defense News, November 10, 2005)8. In 2008, the EU’s presidency was supposed by France and Nicholas Sarkozy 'was the prime transporter in pushing for the EU-NATO-US axis at the Bucharest summit'.Bush’s speech at the summit pointed out that "NATO is negative longer a static alliance....It is now an expeditionary alliance that is sending its forces across the world...." (USA Today, April 1, 2008)9. After the summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned, "This is....an attempt to form some new global union with a Western core wishing to claim all but UN functions." (Interfax, April 17, 2008)10. The EU is training security personnel in Afghanistan.11. In December 2009, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed the EU’s position in supplementing US and NATO weapons and military involvement in the South Caucasus.12. The EU is becoming included with NATO."The US is ... the central foundation, of NATO."Thus, the EU is "in effect subordinated to Washington."~~

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