EU-byråkraten Cecilia Malmström: - Jag tar minsann inga order från medborgarna i EU!

Företagsfascism och Crony Capitalism inom EU.  Ledande EU-byråkraten Cecilia Malmström tar minsann inga order från vanliga simpla EU-Medborgare, enligt egen utsago. En reporter från "The Independent" som undersökt TTIP och EU:s handelsavtal med USA, verkar ha blivit skrämd för livet efter ett möte med damen på (översta?) bilden...
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Västvärlden håller i smyg på att flytta över delar av de mänskliga rättigheterna från människorna till företagen...

T o m FN signalerar att ledande politiker och stora delar av det "ignoranta kollektivet" just nu spelar samma spel som föregick åren till 2:a världskriget.

- Fast är det egentligen någon som bryr sig, mer än de som plötsligt drabbas och ett litet fåtal "tokiga" aktivister?
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Cecilia Malmström är ett oerhört användbart redskap för internationella företagslobbyister...

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The Independent 2015-10-15
I was recently granted a rare glimpse behind the official façade of the EU when I met with its Trade Commissioner in her Brussels office. 

I was there to discuss the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the controversial treaty currently under negotiation between the EU and the USA.

As Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström occupies a powerful position in the apparatus of the EU. She heads up the trade directorate of the European Commission, the post previously given to Peter Mandelson when he was forced to quit front line politics in the UK. 

This puts her in charge of trade and investment policy for all 28 EU member states, and it is her officials that are currently trying to finalise the TTIP deal with the USA.

In our meeting, I challenged Malmström over the huge opposition to TTIP across Europe. In the last year, a record three and a quarter million European citizens have signed the petition against it. Thousands of meetings and protests have been held across all 28 EU member states, including a spectacular 250,000-strong demonstration in Berlin this weekend.

When put to her, Malmström acknowledged that a trade deal has never inspired such passionate and widespread opposition.

Yet when I asked the trade commissioner how she could continue her persistent promotion of the deal in the face of such massive public opposition, her response came back icy cold:  

“I do not take my mandate from the European people.”
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- So who does Cecilia Malmström take her mandate from?

Officially, EU commissioners are supposed to follow the elected governments of Europe. Yet the European Commission is carrying on the TTIP negotiations behind closed doors without the proper involvement European governments, let alone MPs or members of the public.

British civil servants have admitted to us that they have been kept in the dark throughout the TTIP talks, and that this makes their job impossible.

- In reality, as a new report from War on Want has just revealed, Malmström receives her orders directly from the corporate lobbyists that swarm around Brussels. 

The European Commission makes no secret of the fact that it takes its steer from industry lobbies such as BusinessEurope and the European Services Forum, much as a secretary takes down dictation.

It's no wonder that the TTIP negotiations are set to serve corporate interests rather than public needs. [...]
Läs mer:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-didn-t-think-ttip-could-get-any-scarier-but-then-i-spoke-to-the-eu-official-in-charge-of-it-a6690591.html
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https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/618447878588080128
#TPP #TISA & #TTIP agreements are massive Corporate power grabs dressed up as trade deals http://ian56.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-ttp-tisa-and-ttip-in-europe.html … 
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https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/655074519053418498 

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EU-byråkraten Cecilia Malmström: Jag tar minsann inga order från medborgarna i EU!

   

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