Peoples News issue no. 97 Date: 12 – 1 – 14

international | eu | other press Monday January 13, 2014 09:23 by O. O'C. - The People's Movement

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Peoples News issue no. 97 Date: 12 – 1 – 14 http://www.people.ie/news/PN-97.pdf

Table of Contents

P 1 . Peoples Movement/ Red C poll - lack of public awareness of changes in EU decision making process and strong public resistance to pay more for survival of Euro
P 2. A Gallup survey published las week shows that affection for the EU has slumped in Ireland.

P 3 . Chopra’s lessons; It is unfair to impose the burden of supporting banks on taxpayers when senior bondholders get paid out. Euro zone partners stopped the Irish from imposing haircuts on senior bondholders.

P 3. Conclusions of the European Council (19/20 December 2013) – Welcome to NATO!!

P 3. Will Irish troops support French ambitions in Africa?

P 5. A campaign for the European Union to become a "United States of Europe" will be the "best weapon against the Eurocritics," according to Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission.

P 5 . Latvians less than pleased! On January 1st last, Latvia became the eighteenth country to join the euro zone.

P 6. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian sister party, the Christian-Social Union (CSU), plans to call for fewer EU commissioners and less new EU legislation in next year's European Parliament elections.

P 7. German arms manufacturers paid millions in bribes to induce Athens to purchase German weaponry, worth several billion Euros.

P 8. How the security industry is shaping EU legislation - lobbyists in action!

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