NOTE: On Saturday 23rd April, 2016, the eve of the centenary of the reading of the Proclamation of Irish Independence in 1916, our very own Peter Sutherland, read out the new and improved 2016 Proclamation Of The Irish Oligarchy outside the … [Read more...]
Perspectives on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and Argentina’s Debt
The following article is written by Tony Phillips an Irish and Argentine economist specialising in the build up to and the consequences of excessive national debt. He is Editor (with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Argentine minister for … [Read more...]
Is This How European Democracy Will Die? An Obscure Technocratic Vote During Euro 2016!
by Barry Finnegan, Attac Ireland Full article in PDF This June the 28 EU foreign ministers will have a vote on whether or not to give the European Commission ‘provisional application’ power to sign an EU-Canada free investment and trade deal … [Read more...]
Barry Finnegan of Attac discusses the risks of TTIP and CETA, Newstalk 16/4/2016
Here's a 10 minute radio piece from Saturday 16th April, 2016 on the Businesses Today Show on Newstalk 106FM national radio in Ireland: Mark O Mahony from Chambers Ireland, and Barry Finnegan, researcher with ATTAC Ireland, and lecturer at the media … [Read more...]
TTIP: Civil Society statement on the new EU proposal on Regulatory Cooperation
March 17th 2016 Dear Commissioner Malmström, The undersigned organisations are writing to express our deep concern with the new EU proposal on horizontal regulatory cooperation (dated 19 February 2016) in the EU-US TTIP negotiations . We … [Read more...]
