Pale Victorias Secret Model

The budgetary sovereignty of France in danger

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When all eyes are on Ireland, the European Commission and the European Council in discreetly arrange a new stage of economic governance.

In a paper entitled "Strengthening the coordination of economic policies, the establishment of what the European Commission calls" half of European economic policy coordination "is primarily intended to ensure that all countries strangled by the crisis well choose the austerity rather than a tax increase for the richest and capital ...

This device is to devote the first half of each year to the study and appreciation, by undemocratic institutions, national budgetary policies. Thus the Council, on the basis of a report of the Commission will issue in early recommendations "horizontal" (by groups of countries) on the main lines of budgetary policy. Guidelines to be followed by Member States in making their programs stability and fiscal policy.

Once these programs communicated by Member States, the Commission would issue a public notice on national programs. Then, informal negotiations are conducted between states and the European Commission. Finally, the Council would its opinion on each national program by the end of July.

The development of budgets by national parliaments would occur during the second half and was forced to take into account the observations and recommendations made by European institutions.

It is, according to the UMP and the Socialist Party, by a simple coordination at European level. But the smokescreen dissipates quickly when you know that orders of the Commission will be based on criteria quite questionable and highly ideological as the cost of labor, reform the pension system, the price financial assets or tax levels.

This mechanism, unknown to all, has yet been definitively confirmed by the European Council last October 29 and has already resulted in amending the code of conduct for stability programs. This political control be needed prior to France in January 2011!

A principle of the Republic attacked

The European semester was sold under the preventive arm of the Commission but does not hide that it is desirable to have a direct impact on budget decisions and policies of each country.

But in France, the Declaration of Human Rights and the Citizen has an article XIV which states that "All citizens have the right to ascertain, by themselves or by their representatives, the need for public contribution, to consent freely, to follow the manual and determine the amount, basis, collection and duration. " The principle of "consent of the citizens to tax" was one of the most powerful catalysts for the birth of the British parliamentary system and the French Revolution. It is against the Kings and had that lifted the tax that have built the revolutions in Europe.

This is trying to do today the Committee by allocating a national competence, is a major attack against a fundamental principle of our Republic. Of course, the transfer of powers to the European level has already been authorized. But it has always been made possible by a constitutional amendment, that is to say by a convocation of Congress and ratification, so the sovereignty of the people. This was the case for example the Treaty of Maastricht in 92 for the ratification of the Treaty of Amsterdam in 97 and, of course, for the treaty Lisbon in 2007.

As it stands, the Constitution authorizes the transfer of powers under the Lisbon Treaty or by previous treaties but not the skills not provided.

To ensure that people can once again overwhelmingly express their rejection of liberal policies, the solution is ... directly modify the Treaty of Lisbon! This is allowed if the changes are considered "limited." Suddenly we find ourselves in a situation where the President, H. Van Rompuy says it is "the biggest innovation" and the other calls the process of "limited."

Thus, the European semester is not an isolated element. It is part of a dynamic global ideological liberal who also plans to strengthen fiscal discipline by passing a system of automatic sanctions, surveillance of macroeconomic balances and to make the Commission more independent European states and even political power ...

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