Two Steps to a Fiscal Union for the Eurozone… & A Third Step to Distract Attention from the First Two

The Urgent Need at a Minimum For a Government White Paper “It would be tragic and fatal if we were to lose democracy on the road to saving the euro” – Dr Andreas Vosskuhle, President of the German Constitutional Court, 2011 “There are 27 of us. Clearly, down the line, we will have to include [...]

Barroso, Bonde and Ireland’s company Taxes

Monday 28 April 2008 Barroso, Bonde and  Ireland’s company Taxes . . . Excerpt from “Bonde’s Briefing” by Jens-Peter Bonde MEP, Chairman, Independence and Democracy Group in the European Parliament, forwarded for your information Misinformation in Ireland I was in Ireland this weekend (18 April). Accidentally I met the Commission President José Manuel Barroso at [...]

Lisbon Treaty: mandatory tax harmonisation for Ireland

The Lisbon Treaty amendment on EU harmonized taxes which has not been publicly mentioned so far in Ireland’s referendum debate Article 2.79 of the Lisbon Treaty would insert a six-word amendment -”and to avoid distorton of competition” – into the Article of the existing European Treaties dealing with harmonising indirect taxes – Article 113. The [...]

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