Prof. Dr. Schachtschneider Zum Urteil Über Die Rechtmäßigkeit Der Transferunion – ‘Der Materielle Bundeskanzler In Deutschland Heisst Josef Ackermann’

Prof. Dr. Schachtschneider zum Urteil über die Rechtmäßigkeit der Transferunion


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Heute war ein Schicksalstag für Deutschland und Europa. Der zweite Senat des Bundesverfassungsgerichtes erteilte der Klage der fünf Professoren Hankel, Nölling, Schachtschneider Starbatty und Spethmann gegen die Transferunion ein abschlägiges Urteil. Die bisher durchgeführten Rettungsmaßnahmen wurden für Rechtens erklärt jedoch eine deutlich Stärkung des Beschlußrechtes des Parlaments angemahnt. Prof. Dr. Schachtschneider ordnet das Urteil in einem Interview ein.

France Made Secret Deal With NTC For 35% Of Libya’s Oil (Libération)

Pétrole : l’accord secret entre le CNT et la France (Libération):

Dans une lettre que s’est procurée «Libération», les rebelles promettent d’accorder 35% du brut libyen aux Français.

Mahmoud Jibril, numéro 2 du CNT, reçu le 24 août 2011 à l’Elysée par Nicolas Sarkozy. (AFP Lionel Bonaventure)

La morale politique n’a rien à faire avec les affaires. C’est, en substance, ce que répète le gouvernement français depuis le 19 mars, jour du lancement de l’opération militaire contre les troupes du colonel Kadhafi. Paris n’a qu’un seul objectif : «Venir en aide à un peuple en danger de mort […] au nom de la conscience universelle qui ne peut tolérer de tels crimes, déclare Nicolas Sarkozy lors d’un discours à l’Elysée, le 19 mars. Nous le faisons pour protéger la population…

AND NOW: Germany, France Propose COLLECTIVE ‘GOVERNMENT’ For The Eurozone Led By UNELECTED EU President

PROBLEM – REACTION – SOLUTION!

Flashback:

EU President Herman Van Rompuy Announces 2009 as ‘First Year of Global Governance’

New EU president confirms New World Order desire

What could possibly go wrong???



Bilderberg & Jesuit Herman Van Rompuy

Germany, France propose collective ‘government’ for the eurozone led by EU president (CNBC NEWS, Aug 16, 2011 ):

PARIS – Germany, France propose collective ‘government’ for the eurozone led by EU president.

Merkel, Sarkozy want tighter EU budget controls (CBC NEWS, Aug 16, 2011):

The French and German leaders called Tuesday for all countries using the euro to have mandatory balanced budgets and better co-ordination of economic policy.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also pledged to harmonize their countries’ corporate taxes after meeting in Paris.

Sarkozy said he and Merkel want a “true European economic government” that would consist of the heads of state and government of all eurozone nations.

The new body would meet twice a year and be led by EU President Herman Van Rompuy.

Joint Statement From Merkel And Sarkozy On Global Financial Crisis

Joint Statement From Merkel And Sarkozy On Global Financial Crisis (ZeroHedge, Aug 7, 2011):

Below is the full text of the joint French-German statement attempting to prevent another European market collapse. Next up are comparable statements from the ECB and from theG7. We expect many more before the night is out.

Following is the full text of a joint statement issued on Sunday by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on measures to tackle the euro zone debt crisis.

President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel reiterate their commitment to fully implement the decisions taken by the heads of state and government of the euro area and the EU institutions on July 21st 2011.

In particular, they stress the importance that parliamentary approval will be obtained swiftly by the end of September in their two countries.

They welcome the recent measures announced by Italy and Spain with regard to faster fiscal consolidation and improved competitiveness. Especially the Italian authorities’ goal to achieve a balanced budget a year earlier than previously envisaged is of fundamental importance. They stress that complete and speedy implementation of the announced measures is key to restore market confidence.

As decided on July 21st, the effectiveness of the EFSF will be improved and its flexibility increased linked to appropriate conditionality, in particular through the following instruments: precautionary program, finance recapitalization of financial institutions and to intervene in secondary markets on the basis of an ECB analysis recognizing the existence of exceptional financial market circumstances and risks to financial stability and on the basis of a decision by mutual agreement of the member states, in order to avoid contagion.

Greece Defaults; Krugman Screams It’s 1937; Maastricht Treaty Needs Revisions; ‘European Monetary Fund’ Created; German Taxpayers on the Hook

What are these clowns thinking?

Not to forget…

Bankrupting Germany: German Bundesbank Financed ECB and National Central Banks With €338 Billion, ifo-Institute President Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn Stunned

And if those €338 Billion are not paid back German taxpayers are on the hook!

And now…


Greece Defaults; Krugman Screams It’s 1937; Maastricht Treaty Needs Revisions; “European Monetary Fund” Created; German Taxpayers on the Hook (Global Economic Analysis, July 21, 2011):

The EU summit hammered out yet another temporary fix today, albeit a complicated one.

The proposal involves the creation of a “European Monetary Fund” and it will require changes to the Maastricht Treaty. Paul Krugman does not like the austerity measures and ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet had to eat his words regarding defaults and acceptance of defaulted bonds as collateral. German taxpayers may potentially be screwed big time on this bailout.

Can this agreement hold together? Before deciding let’s look at some details.

“European Monetary Fund” Created

In what French President Nicolas Sarkozy likens to a “European Monetary Fund”, EU Leaders Offer $229 Billion in New Greek Aid

After eight hours of talks in Brussels, leaders announced 159 billion euro ($229 billion) in new aid for Greece late yesterday and cajoled bondholders into footing part of the bill. They also empowered their 440-billion euro rescue fund to buy debt across stressed euro nations after a market rout last week sparked concern the crisis was spreading. The fund can also aid troubled banks and offer credit-lines to repel speculators.

Read moreGreece Defaults; Krugman Screams It’s 1937; Maastricht Treaty Needs Revisions; ‘European Monetary Fund’ Created; German Taxpayers on the Hook

The No.1 Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente’s Dire Warning For The World

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If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente.
– New York Post

When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente.
– CNN Headline News

There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.
– CNBC

Those who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute.
– The Wall Street Journal

A network of 25 experts whose range of specialties would rival many university faculties.
– The Economist


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Muammar Gaddafi’s Son Says Sarkozy’s Election Campaign Was Funded By Libya, Threatens To Publish Details Of Bank Transfers

Saif al-Islam threatens to publish details of bank transfers to punish French PM for backing Libyan rebels


Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: ‘Give us back our money.’ Photograph: Sabri Elmhedwi/EPA

Muammar Gaddafi’s son has claimed that Libya helped finance Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful election campaign in 2007, and demanded that the French president return the money to “the Libyan people”.

In an interview with the Euronews TV channel, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said Libya had details of bank transfers and was ready to make them public in a move designed to punish Sarkozy for throwing his weight behind opposition forces.

Last week, the Libyan government threatened to reveal a “grave secret” that would bring down Sarkozy, with Saif al-Islam calling him “a clown”.

The regime is furious at Sarkozy’s efforts to galvanise international action to impose a “no-fly zone” that would prevent Gaddafi from using air power against rebels based in Benghazi.

Read moreMuammar Gaddafi’s Son Says Sarkozy’s Election Campaign Was Funded By Libya, Threatens To Publish Details Of Bank Transfers

France Outlaws Full-Face Veils, Niqab Ban To Start Next Month

Veils that cover the face to be illegal from next month, with President Sarkozy accused of trying to win far-right votes


A woman in a niqab walks with a child in the Tuileries, in Paris, France. Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/EPAFrom

Saudi tourists window-shopping on the Champs-Élysées to Muslim women in a departure lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport or the few young French converts on suburban estates, any woman who steps outside in France wearing a veil that covers her face will be breaking the law from next month.

France’s bitterly divisive debate on Muslim women’s clothing took a new turn when the legal details of the controversial “burqa ban” were published in a decree by the prime minister. From 11 April women will be banned from wearing the niqab – full-face Muslim veil – in any public place, including while walking down the street, taking a bus, at a bank, library or shop, or in a cinema or theatre. It will be illegal for a woman in niqab to visit the Louvre, or any other museum, take a train, visit a hospital or collect her child from school.

Face veils will be outlawed virtually anywhere outside women’s own homes, except when they are worshipping in a religious place or travelling as a passenger in a private car, although traffic police may stop them if they think they do not have a clear “field of vision” while driving. Women wearing niqab will be fined €150 (about £130) and be given a citizenship class to remind them of the republican values of secular France and gender equality. Any third party found to have coerced a woman into wearing the face covering, for example a husband or family member, risks a €30,000 fine and a year in prison.

Read moreFrance Outlaws Full-Face Veils, Niqab Ban To Start Next Month

Nicolas Sarkozy Declares Multiculturalism Had Failed

And the age-old elitist strategy ‘DIVIDE ET IMPERA!’ has succeeded once again?


French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday declared that multiculturalism had failed, joining a growing number of world leaders or ex-leaders who have condemned it.


French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels Photo: AP

“We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him,” he said in a television interview in which he declared the concept a “failure”.

Prime Minister David Cameron last month pronounced his country’s long-standing policy of multiculturalism a failure, calling for better integration of young Muslims to combat home-grown extremism.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Australia’s former prime minister John Howard and former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar have also in recent months said multicultural policies have not successfully integrated immigrants.

Read moreNicolas Sarkozy Declares Multiculturalism Had Failed

France and Germany Veto Increase in EU Rescue Fund

From the article:  “… a well-covered auction of €1.25bn of Portuguese debt…”

Italy: Youth Unemployment Hits Record 28.9 Percent

That said, with fundamentals no longer relevant, the only catalysts the market is concerned about for the next several days will be the plethora of bond auctions with Portugal coming to market tomorrow, followed promptly by Spain. Both are expected to price their issues at or near all time wide levels, which explains why the ECB has been in the market all day today, buying up every piece of paper available in an attempt to stabilize the market ahead of tomorrow.



Germany and France have rejected calls by Brussels for a rapid increase in the size and powers of the EU’s rescue machinery, once again exposing serious differences at the heart of monetary union.


France’s President Sarkozy with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  Photo: REUTERS

Jose Barroso, head of the European Commission, called on EU leaders to boost the firepower of the EU’s €440bn (£366bn) bail-out fund and beef up its role, allowing it to intervene with pre-emptive bond purchases to help states under threat.

“It is important for the markets to know that Eurozone leaders are committed to do whatever is necessary,” he said, hoping for action as soon as early February.

He also proposed a “new phase of European integration” with far-reaching oversight of the budgets, pensions, labour markets, and trade flows of EU states to prevent a recurrence of the imbalances that led to the EMU debt crisis.

Mr Barroso said the fund boost was a “precautionary” move, not directed at any one country. The gambit is risky since it may be taken by investors as a sign that Brussels fears imminent contagion to Spain, deemed too big for the current fund.

Read moreFrance and Germany Veto Increase in EU Rescue Fund

US Cables: Gabon’s President Bongo Pocketed Millions in Embezzled Funds, Funnelled Money to Chirac and Sarkozy

Gabon’s late president allegedly channelled money to French political parties in support of Nicolas Sarkozy


Gabon’s President Omar Bongo and France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy in Libreville, July 2007. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

Gabon’s late president Omar Bongo allegedly pocketed millions in embezzled funds from central African states, channelling some of it to French political parties in support of Nicolas Sarkozy, according to a US embassy cable published by El País.

A senior official at the Bank of Central African States (Beac) told a US diplomat in Cameroon of Bongo’s “brazen” defrauding of the bank which holds the pooled reserves of six central African countries, including Gabon, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Shortly after Bongo’s death in 2009, the US embassy in Yaounde said the bank source told them: “Gabonese officials used the proceeds for their own enrichment and, at Bongo’s direction, funnelled funds to French political parties, including in support of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.”

The cable, released by WikiLeaks, continued: “Asked what the officials did with the stolen funds, the Beac official responded, ‘sometimes they kept it for themselves, sometimes they funnelled it to French political parties.’ Asked who received the funds, the official responded, ‘both sides, but mostly the right; especially Chirac and including Sarkozy.’ The Beac official said ‘Bongo was France’s favourite president in Africa,’ and ‘this is classic Françafrique.'”

The secret cable also detailed how the Gabonese Beac governor had secretly placed €500m in high-risk investment with French bank Société Générale.

Read moreUS Cables: Gabon’s President Bongo Pocketed Millions in Embezzled Funds, Funnelled Money to Chirac and Sarkozy

The Worst Health Scandal in French History: State Sudsidised Deadly Diabetes Drug, Completely Ignored Warnings

“Researchers who criticised the drug recalled receiving anonymous threats, incuding parcels containing miniature coffins, but no direct link with Servier was established.”


French politicians of both the right and left are facing severe embarrassment and legal recriminations with the forthcoming publication of an official report on what could become the worst health scandal in the country’s history.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised “the most complete transparency” on how a drug which is now suspected to have killed up to 2,000 people was officially approved, and subsidised, for 33 years by the French health service.

Despite repeated warnings from scientists in France and abroad, the Mediator drug was prescribed to 5,000,000 French people, originally to fight diabetes and later as an appetite-suppressing, slimming pill. A report from the French health inspectorate, due in mid-January, will investigate why successive French health ministers, of the left and right, failed to heed advice that the drug – produced by the French pharmaceutical giant, Servier – was at best useless, and at worst highly dangerous.

Separate French press investigations have focused on an alleged campaign of intimidation and disinformation by the Servier company to keep the drug – and a lucrative predecessor, eventually banned in the US in 1997 – on the market.

Servier, the second largest French drugs company, founded 50 years ago by Jacques Servier, 88, a French doctor, is known for its cult of secrecy and its excellent relations with French politicians. President Sarkozy himself once worked for the company as a lawyer during his brief legal career, when he was a young man.

Mediator contains a substance called benfluorex, which has been alleged in a series of scientific investigations to attack the cardio-vascular system and, in particular, to damage the valves of the heart. Despite a series of warnings, the drug remained legal – and its use was even officially subsidised by the French health service – until late last year.

Read moreThe Worst Health Scandal in French History: State Sudsidised Deadly Diabetes Drug, Completely Ignored Warnings

Marseille close to standstill, worst strikes in 15 years cause French chaos

France’s worst period of strikes and civil disobedience for 15 years has brought the city of Marseille almost to a standstill.


People walk past piled up garbage in Marseille, the result of an eleven day strike by rubbish collectors Photo: AFP

The cars abandoned along the stretch of motorway leading to Marseille Airport made it look as if the inhabitants of France’s second city had fled some terrible disaster
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Their owners had in fact parked as neatly as they could and dragged their suitcases to the terminal on foot to catch flights to holiday destinations and business meetings – the only way to get past the barricades that were thrown up by protesters on Thursday morning.

Marseille has been crippled by strikers. A fleet of huge ships cruises offshore, unable to dock, their lights reflecting against the still waters of the port at night. From the air it looks like a giant game of Battleships.

In the city centre, streets are still piled high with rubbish after the refuse collectors joined dock workers, train drivers, students and airport staff who have brought the city almost to a standstill.

The worst period of strikes and civil disobedience for 15 years erupted after President Nicolas Sarkozy tried to introduce austerity measures – in particular raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. As the anger rose, so did the piles of rubbish in Marseille’s streets.

“This city looks like a war zone,” said William Paterson, an American-French lawyer who has lived there for 18 years. “How can this be allowed to happen?”

Read moreMarseille close to standstill, worst strikes in 15 years cause French chaos

Nicolas Sarkozy committed to pushing through pension reform despite French protests turning violent

* Travellers to France warned of heavy delays
* Major disruption at French airports
* Long-haul flights from Paris having to refuel at Manchester Airport
* Unions call for millions to take to the streets
* Oil company warns fuel situation now critical
* Economist claims Britain should follow French example


Nicolas Sarkozy (centre), remains committed to his plans. The French President meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev (right) earlier today

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has declared it his ‘duty’ to push through hugely unpopular reforms to the country’s pension system despite nationwide strikes and violent protests.

France is facing another day of chaos today as unions continue their demonstrations against the government’s plans.

The powerful CGT union has called for a second day of national strike action on Tuesday, with officials hoping as many as three million people will take to the streets to demonstrate against President Sarkozy’s proposals.

Protests across France have turned violent during the last six days, with train passengers and commuters facing huge delays as a result of the ongoing blockade of oil refineries.

Mr Sarkozy remains defiant, however, and announced during a press conference earlier that the blockades ‘cannot exist in a democracy’ where ‘there are people who want to work’.


Violence: Police fired tear gas on protesters in Mulhouse and Montbelliard on Monday

On Tuesday half of all flights to Paris’s Orly airport were cancelled and 30 per cent of flights to other airports were affected.

A number of long-haul flights from the Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris have also had to refuel at Manchester due to the shortage in France.

A spokeswoman for Air France said a number of flights had been forced to take off from Paris with insufficient fuel to reach their destination, meaning they had to stop for new supplies en route.

The train operator SNCF said it hoped to run 60 per cent of trains today, with the local trains and the Metro in Paris expected to still run.

The disruption to transport is a result of the week-long blockade of France’s 12 oil refineries.

Read moreNicolas Sarkozy committed to pushing through pension reform despite French protests turning violent

Sarkozy and Merkel: We Need A New EU Treaty

The coalition government faces the prospect of a referendum on Europe and the outbreak of political warfare between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats after Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel demanded a new EU treaty within two years.


Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel walk at a beach in Deauville Photo: REUTERS

Following a meeting in France, the French President threw his weight behind calls from the German Chancellor for changes to the Lisbon Treaty in order to prevent future government debt crises threatening the euro zone.

The move is a serious setback for David Cameron because he has opposed any fresh EU institutional changes and recently renewed his “referendum lock” pledge to hold a popular vote on any future treaty that passes new powers to Brussels.

In a joint statement with Chancellor Merkel, President Sarkozy proposed revisions to the EU treaty in order to bring in tough sanctions against countries that threatened the euro’s stability by running high levels of government debt and to set up permanent EU bail-out fund.

“Germany and France together will put forward a revision to the treaties so that political sanctions can be made and for support mechanisms to be made ongoing in order to ensure the financial stability of the euro zone,” he said.

Read moreSarkozy and Merkel: We Need A New EU Treaty

Battle Over Nicolas Sarkozy’s Cuts: Defiant Millions Hit The Streets

The return of students and workers in mass protests made the right shiver. But there was no battle of the barricades


Protests in Lyon against pension reforms. Photograph: Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP

The clouds hung heavily over the Place de la République and the statue of Marianne, France’s heroine, was draped with demonstrators’ balloons.

As protesters marched on the historic Parisian site of proletarian revolt, 17-year-old Romane scowled at the rain-filled sky. “At least this is proof we’re not just here for the good weather,” she said. On her jacket was pinned a placard scrawled with marker pen. “Carla, we’re like you,” it read. “We’ve been screwed by Sarko too.”

Nicolas Sarkozy had feared that the rentrée – the time after the holidays when France returns to normal – would be warm, encouraging protesting masses on to the wide, Haussmann-designed boulevards, and he was right to be worried.

Languishing in the polls and engaged in an almighty battle to push through his flagship pension reform – taking the retirement age from 60 to 62 – the man once cast by some as the Gallic Margaret Thatcher is facing his most testing showdown with the notoriously bellicose unions.

The demonstration that drew people out in their hundreds of thousands was the fifth since last month, and Tuesday will bring another. Last week the protest movement snowballed, with strikes that closed schools, led to flights being cancelled and stopped trains. Fuel refineries halted production and parts of the country are already suffering shortages.

Read moreBattle Over Nicolas Sarkozy’s Cuts: Defiant Millions Hit The Streets

Sarkogate: All Le President’s men?

See also:

Nicolas Sarkozy Orders ‘Air Sarko One’ Plane For €176 Million (£147 Million) (Telegraph)

Sarkozy spent £160m on events and refurbishment during French EU presidency, incl. £250,000 on a personal shower he did not use (Guardian)


The crisis engulfing France’s President Sarkozy is drawing comparisons with the Watergate scandal of the 1970s.

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Notables from a scandal: President Sarkozy in front of an image of his scourge, ‘Le Monde’

Sarkogate? Le Mondegate? L’Oréalgate? Evidence continued to pile up yesterday that President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office abused its powers, and broke the law, to staunch newspaper revelations flowing from the convoluted (but endlessly fascinating) L’Oréal family feud and political financing scandal.

The comparison with President Richard Nixon and the Watergate affair of the 1970s may be something of a stretch. Consider, however, the similarities.

A beleaguered President has been directly challenged by the country’s leading liberal newspaper. (Le Monde in Mr Sarkozy’s case; The Washington Post in the case of Nixon.)

The presidency stands accused of misusing the security services to pursue narrow political interests. A head of state who makes law and order his political battle cry has been accused of breaking his country’s laws (twice over, if you include Sarkozy’s harebrained campaign against Roma immigrants, formally condemned yesterday by Brussels).

The comparisons with Watergate should not be pushed too far. Richard Nixon set out in 1971-72 to manipulate an entire presidential campaign. The US president’s men robbed and lied and smeared.

The French President’s men and women are accused “only” of sending the counter-intelligence services on a witch-hunt to track down the source of embarrassing leaks. They are accused “only” of breaking a century-old French law guaranteeing press freedom, and the privacy of media sources, which had been renewed and reinforced in January of this year.

Read moreSarkogate: All Le President’s men?

Italy: Rome Prepares to Demolish 200 Illegal Gypsy camps

Aid workers fear thousands of Roma will be left homeless

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Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno, a former neo-fascist, said Gypsies leaving France were now settling in Italy. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

Plans by Rome city officials to demolish up to 200 illegal Gypsy camps this week have raised fears by aid workers that thousands of Roma, including women and small children, will be forced on to the streets.

In the wake of France’s controversial repatriation of Romanian Gypsies last month, Italian police backed by bulldozers will raze rudimentary camps in Rome built beneath flyovers and in wasteland, often by Romanian migrants.

Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno, has cited the recent death of a Romanian child during a fire in one of the camps as an incentive for their demolition. “These are the terrible risks and dramas of the illegal camps that have existed in Rome for too long,” he said.

Sveva Belviso, Alemanno’s social policy assessor, said fewer than 1,000 people people were due to be evicted. “We will offer assistance to the young, old and sick,” she said.

But the Red Cross warned that many more faced sleeping rough and losing their possessions.

“The number is in fact likely to be over 1,000 and with the city’s financial straits and overflowing accommodation I wonder where they will put up and feed these people,” said Mario Squicciarini. “What is worse is that when the bulldozers go in they often do not give you time to get your possessions out.”

Read moreItaly: Rome Prepares to Demolish 200 Illegal Gypsy camps

UN tells France to stop forced mass expulsion of Roma

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Roma people after being resettled from a camp near Lille, in northern France

France has come under increasing pressure to stop its mass expulsions of Roma when a United Nations human rights panel added its voice to the chorus of condemnation.

In recent weeks, French officials have dismantled more than 100 illegal camps and sent hundreds of Roma back to their homes in eastern Europe.

A report released yesterday by a UN anti-racism panel urged France to avoid its “collective repatriations” and expressed concern that members of the Roma community weren’t receiving full voting, education and housing rights in France.

Read moreUN tells France to stop forced mass expulsion of Roma

France begins controversial Roma expulsion

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France has begun its controversial expulsion of around 700 Roma to Romania and Bulgaria amid rising criticism of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s clampdown on the minority.

The first 79 Roma who agreed to a so-called “voluntary return procedure” will be put on an afternoon flight to Bucharest, the first such expulsion since Sarkozy last month vowed action against Roma, Gipsy and traveller communities.

France intends to fly 132 more to Timisoara, in western Romania, and Bucharest on Friday and 160 on August 26, with each adult granted 300 euros and each minor 100 euros.

Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said he was worried about the risk of “xenophobic reactions”.

“I am worried about the risks of populism and xenophobic reactions in a context of economic crisis”, Mr Baconschi said.

French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux will next week receive senior Romanian officials including Secretary of State for Roma Integration Valentin Mocanu to discuss the Roma’s predicament.

About 10,000 Roma from Romania and Bulgaria were returned to their countries last year, but this is the first expulsion since Sarkozy in July announced a clampdown on foreigners.

Read moreFrance begins controversial Roma expulsion

Nicolas Sarkozy Orders ‘Air Sarko One’ Plane For €176 Million (£147 Million)

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Sarkozy spent £160m on events and refurbishment during French EU presidency, incl. £250,000 on a personal shower he did not use


Nicolas Sarkozy’s dream of having his own presidential jet to rival America’s Air Force One are about to come true with “Air Sarko One”, a £150 million aircraft complete with bedroom, air filter system so he can smoke cigars, and a shower.

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Mr Sarkozy’s 176 million euro (£147 million) purchase and refit of the jet from tourist airline Air Caraïbes has raised eyebrows.

The specially upholstered Airbus A330-200, has just been taken on its first test flight in Bordeaux, southwestern France, with all internal fittings due for completion by October.

The plane will also include a 12-man meeting room, 60 business class seats, top-grade encrypted communications systems, a reinforced fuselage and missile decoy system.

A fleet of smaller jets is also to replace the current Falcon 50 and 900 models at ministers’ disposal. This includes two Falcon 7Xs, models often favoured by the world’s jet set.

Presidential air force officials have dubbed it “Air Carla One” after his ex-supermodel wife.

The French leader is understood to have long envied the luxurious conditions in which Barack Obama, the US President flies across the world in his Boeing 747-200B, and has complained that his two smaller Airbus A319s lacked the necessary presidential stature.

“Air Sarko One” as the plane has been dubbed, will have a wingspan a good two feet longer than the US model.

Read moreNicolas Sarkozy Orders ‘Air Sarko One’ Plane For €176 Million (£147 Million)

EU Draws Up Plans For Single ‘Economic Government’

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EU Chief Vows To Run The Economies Of All EU Members From Brussels

Lisbon Treaty: Now EU Takes Charge Of Britain

EU President Herman Van Rompuy Announces 2009 as ‘First Year of Global Governance’

Climategate: Hacked emails include calls for ‘Earth Government’ as foundation of new world order, splitting of America

The EU President has NOT been elected. Herman Van Rompuy was appointed by the heads of the 27 EU member states.


Germany and France have tabled controversial plans to create an “economic government of the European Union” to police financial policy across the continent.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the summit of European Union leaders in Brussels

They have put Herman Van Rompuy, the EU President, in charge of a special task force to examine “all options possible” to prevent another crisis like the one caused by the Greek meltdown.

His mission will be to draw up a master-plan for the best way to oversee and enforce economic targets set in Brussels as a key part of a bail-out package for Greece.

The options he will consider include the creation of an “economic government” by the by the end of the year.

Read moreEU Draws Up Plans For Single ‘Economic Government’

Papandreou Gives EU One Week to Seal Aid Plan as Germany Pushes IMF Option

See also:

Banksters Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide

Greek Debt Crisis: How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt

Greece: 2009 Budget Deficit Was Just Revised From 12.2% To 16% Of GDP!

The CDS Puppetmaster Behind It All And The Ever Increasing Parallels Between AIG And Greece

The people will have to pay the bill …

… and the elite that controls the banksters, the governments, the media and the central banks always gains more money, power and control.


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George Papandreou, Greece’s prime minister, gestures during a press briefing at the European Union Parliament headquarters in Brussels, on March 18, 2010. Photographer: Jock Fistick/Bloomberg

March 18 (Bloomberg) — Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou set a one-week deadline for the European Union to craft a financial aid mechanism for Greece, challenging Germany to give up its doubts about a rescue package.

Papandreou said he may turn to the International Monetary Fund to overcome Greece’s debt crisis unless leaders agree to set up a lending facility at a summit March 25-26. The IMF option has already been dismissed by European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who say it would show the EU can’t solve its own crises.

“It’s an opportunity to make a decision next week at the summit,’’ Papandreou told reporters in Brussels today. “This is an opportunity we should not miss. When you have that instrument in place, that could be enough to tell the markets hands off, no speculation, let this country do what it’s doing.”

Read morePapandreou Gives EU One Week to Seal Aid Plan as Germany Pushes IMF Option

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