German Bundestag in the Reichstag (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Given the debt crisis in Europe hit SPD parliamentary leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier these days the appointment of a common Euro-Finance Minister before. "the time of national solutions is over. Europe needs a common economic and fiscal policy - and a euro zone finance ministers, who are of this policy a face, "said Steinmeier.
Frank-Walter I found so far only one good: The fact that he donated a kidney to his wife. That deserves respect.
The proposal cited shows that Steinmeier, the changing "office closet", eager to the agenda of those potters that triggered the crisis, in order to draw maximum benefit - to be drawn instead to account.
Even the phrase "The time of national solutions is over" is absolutely wrong, as does a view to phasing out nuclear power in Germany clearly - or has it anything heard that the nuclear phase-out of other EU countries and at EU level would be operated?
However, threatening, these and similar sounding claims because they lay a hand on the heart of the parliamentary system and thus democracy. It refers to the budget rights of parliaments of the EU Member States to be beaten to the individual States in the wake of the euro crisis out of hand in favor of a central Brussels-EU Treasury, in which a democratically appointed Commissioner will have the final say.
Let's remember : The EU Parliament has not even a bill right (right of initiative), and is thus in principle a Abnickverein for laws that gets presented by the EU Commission it ...
The budget or budget law is one of the most important rights of a parliament - if not the most important one. This policy is made or not: Because without money nothing works. ... Parliament shall determine what the priorities are, so that it determines the direction and weighting of the policy. (In Germany it is so that the federal budget (under Article 110 of the Basic Law) traditionally in the form of a federal law -., Without the consent of the Bundesrat -. Decided) A parliament without a clear budget law is therefore his name (more) value.
Since 1814 German nation gave after dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire by Napoleon in 1806 (and the founding of the German Confederation in 1815) some German state constitutions, since the call for political participation became louder. However, the people's representatives had no budget law, were thus actually just debating. Not until the 1820s were some German Landtag consent law on public finances.
What is planned as part of Lisbon and the driven EU Treasury, is nothing else than the European nation-states push back to the level of almost 200 years ago were as parliaments only Debattier- or consent clubs.
As it looked in the Empire Constitution of 1871 (Bismarckian Reich Constitution) from the budget law of the Reichstag? The Reichstag had with the Budget Law (Article 69.) Is an important instrument in the hand to exert strongest impetus: The Budget of the German Empire had to be approved in each case by a budget law. D. h., The first Chancellor Otto von. Bismarck was forced to submit all planned revenues and expenses for approval to the Parliament before the start of a financial year. The Reichstag had to discuss it and decide the budget into law.
This was an important counterweight to the then little-free switching and Wielding government, saying Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm. For the Chancellor had for his policies not answer (the first was in October 1918 (known in the. "October constitution" introduced), he was not accountable to the Parliament and tried to act by the Parliament again.
Only the Weimar Constitution abolished this opportunity and put the budget law completely in the hands of the Reichstag. The kingdom Financial Regulation from 1922 to 1970 remained basically guide the German fiscal policy.
What did the Nazi party in 1933 after the seizure of power first? They took the Reichstag the budget right away! Hitler and his government planned and approved from now on, even the budget.
With the founding of the league's Republic in 1949 they returned again in principle to the Reich laws from 1922 back to 1970 and kept it also: Revenue and expenditure had to be planned at the beginning of an accounting year and submitted to Parliament for approval. The budget had to be balanced. It is long! Then came the budget reform ...
How it looks in Brussels with the budget law? The democratically legitimized not sufficiently European Parliament, which can design and bring no laws together with the Council of Ministers (composed of freely determined by each government ministers) the "budgetary authority". The EU-government, namely the European Commission shall submit a draft budget, which is then jointly decided by the EU Parliament and Council of Ministers - a formality. It may be decided at most changes; that a draft budget "tilted" would, is not intended and did never happen. In highly doped EU Parliament because there are no "opposition" that would deserve this name, as in the national or federal state parliaments ...
An additional factual EU Treasury, which would effectively disempower the individual nation states, already is emerging on the horizon: It is from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) grown - so it is at least planned, if not something intervenes. The ESM is to be appointed as from 2013, the Bundestag will vote (on his own disempowerment) after the summer break.
Provided is a permanent rescue fund deficits in EU countries and their private creditors. Germany was involved with nearly a third. Provided are currently 700 billion euros, of which 21.7 billion from Germany would be paid immediately. In addition a guarantee of Germany in the amount of 168.3 billion euros.
Thus, the ESM is a powerful financial authority, even if he calls himself provisionally somewhat bureaucratic "ESM Board of Directors". This Board of Directors, whose members come from all EU countries, decides where the individual flow billions - with a simple majority.
That would be the end of generations of our ancestors hard-won budget law of Parliament. The ESM Board could operate with German taxpayers' money without going through the Bundestag, the Bundestag had thus no more control over the tax dollars of its citizens!
Even once the Germans have watched in their story of a seizure of power. This means that when we again abolish the democratic parliaments of the budget law by the ESM back door in Germany (and all EU countries) before - as once in 1933?
On the Constitutional Court can not rely will be: It has been charged by the party proportional of the politicians who now just squander our future. Separation of powers? Independence?
Even less is expected that the parliamentarians after the summer break this EU superstate Treasury "ESM", this planned financial Sadomasochistenspiel, refuse - as is to be feared.
ESM, ie the permanent transfer mechanism is threaten the existence of Germany. Parliament is thus deprived of a nuclear-law, who fought and worked for 200 years for the past generations.
A new dark age, the financial feudalism, appeared on the horizon!
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ESM or the imminent gutting the rights of the Bundestag
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This is a Ermächtigungsgesetz- comparable to that of the 1933rd
If it goes through as planned, then we have lost the financial sovereignty of our nation.
Then good night.
Who no longer has the authority over the money, the currency has nothing more, every national economy money is then over.
Ausgliefert, bartered and sold.
Thus also any further unnecessary transition to the ballot box would only verschwendetete time.
The coming dictatorship Greetings before. The harbingers are visible everywhere.
Quite right of this article. Just imagine if this scenario would be reality.
It is already enough that we have the leading persons as v. Rompeu or Ashley and Baroso in the EU are not elected by the citizens but a mouthpiece for the banks and corporations.
If this would be implemented here in the TAt, these banks and corporations could use the tax money of EU citizens without trouble.
The corruption would thus open the floodgates.
Even today, the citizens will systematically impoverished even by support from EU countries more and more. The middle class more and more degraded.
The eingentlichen supporting a democratic society fall victim to oligarchy structures.