Reply With QuoteAlthough lost, briliant move/commercial by Wilders.
Geert Wilders loses injunction suit against European Stability Mechanism ratification
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/w...e-fund-lawsuitGeert Wilders has lost the legal case he began against the European rescue fund.
A judge in the Hague has ruled that Wilders' objections to the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) are not a legal basis for stopping parliament from ratifying the plan.
Wilders wants the ratification of the plan to create the ESM to be postponed until after the election in September. According to the plan, the Netherlands will transfer 4.5 billion euros into the fund and will commit itself to providing an additional 35 billion euros, if the economic situation in Europe worsens and more funding is needed.
Wilders claimed that the current caretaker government does not have the authority to ratify the plan. Nevertheless, the lower house of the Dutch parliament has voted in favor of ratification.
The court disagreed with Wilders’ analysis saying that it cannot interfere with the process of lawmaking, which is the exclusive domain of parliament. According to the judge, parliament had not violated any rules that would allow the court to step in. The Dutch senate must still vote on ratification.
The ESM is intended to be a rescue fund for EU countries if their economies reach the brink, as a result of Europe’s protracted sovereign debt and currency crisis.
I don't really know where I stand on this. Sure, Wilders' actions have been dangerously close to making the trias politica a mockery, but I feel just dumping several billion euros( not to mention being a guarantor for another 35) while we have been cutting almost religiously is a serious matter of sovereignty, one that a demissionary cabinet, even when it has wider support(though a lot of parties in parliament are skeptical) must be very careful with. The crisis is being used to force more centralisation of powers in Brussel and loss of sovereignty on the members' end.
Although lost, briliant move/commercial by Wilders.
x2Originally Posted by JJHH
Meanwhile more than half of the voters are against the agreement..
Since when do normal folks know what's best for the country? We are all stupid sheep being led by the mighty magical wizards in The Hague, they know best.
Working very well so far too! It looks like someone has directed a sewage outlet at the engine of a Tu95 bear, it's now a constant, enormous rain of excrement hitting the fan.
Regering België wil pensioenleeftijd van 65 niet verhogen
http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Eu...t-verhogen.htm
And the Dutch, have to compensate this, by working till 67. Way to go.
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