The Guardian – A huge agenda of global issues was crammed into four days of ’secret’ meetings by a mysterious group of power brokers. But who elected them and why are we paying for them? Check out the agenda for Bilderberg 2010: “Financial reform, security, cyber technology, energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, world food problem, global cooling, social networking, medical science, EU-US relations.” That list is a window into your future. Don’t think for one minute that it isn’t. And don’t ignore it, because it isn’t ignoring you. Read Article
Times – Serbia took a significant step towards joining the EU after European foreign ministers relaxed demands for the alleged genocide fugitive Ratko Mladic to be arrested before allowing its membership application to proceed. Belgrade was given a favourable trade and aid agreement with the EU in return for improved co-operation with the UN’s war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, although General Mladic, charged over the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims, remains at large. Read article
Telegraph – Their decision remains to be formalised by EU leaders at a summit in Brussels on Thursday, but “there is an agreement in principle to open membership talks with Iceland,” said Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos. The European Commission, which will conduct the talks on behalf of the 27 EU member states, recommended in February that negotiations with Iceland – badly shaken by the global financial crisis in 2008 – begin. Read article
Bloomberg – Asia needs to increase economic integration and loosen trade and investment controls to pave the way for a single currency, according to the Asian Development Bank Institute. The region may be the world’s largest economic bloc by 2050 and will need a shared currency to bring down transaction costs and protect local policy from outside influence, Masahiro Kawai, head of the Tokyo-based institute, said in an interview on June 4. Read article
Toronto Sun – If you believe the conspiracy theorists, the real global agenda is set at the secretive, clandestine Bilderberg Conference, a mysterious who’s-who of movers and shakers that meet every spring. At least five Canadians attended the four-day meeting in Spain earlier this month, including: CBC’s Peter Mansbridge; former premier and ambassador Frank McKenna; Robert Prichard, the president of Ontario’s Metrolinx; Indigo Books’ Heather Reisman; and B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell. Read article
Telegraph – Bulat Abilov, co-Chairman of the National Social Democratic Party, said: “Our concern is that this economical Union can develop into a political one. We also know about some plans to revive the Soviet Union, maybe in another form, in 2017 on the anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution of 1917.” The party has written an open letter to Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, demanding a national referendum on the customs union, which is set to come into effect at the start of July. The union will see Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus set the same tariffs for the outside world, while allowing free trade between themselves. Read article
Finance Asia – The vision of a new world order, in my view, has to include a changed global financial system, one that is tilted in favour of Asian banks with strong balance sheets and liquidity positions that are already making their way up the ranks of the world’s biggest and strongest financial institutions. Read Article
Telegraph – The European Commission has decided David Cameron will not be able to veto controversial demands to see the Chancellor’s plans before MPs. The decision on whether to introduce the measure will passed by a simple majority vote – leaving Britain isolated. Read Article
Telegraph – The European Union will vet the Chancellor’s Budget before it is debated by MPs in the House of Commons or seen by the public, under plans agreed last night. David Cameron faces a major row over the “budgetary surveillance” demand when the Prime Minister attends his first EU summit next Thursday. Britain was isolated during a meeting of an “economic government taskforce”, chaired by Herman Van Rompuy, the EU President, last night. Read article
Globe and Mail – Canada has won a key fight in its high-profile international campaign against a global bank tax as G20 finance ministers Saturday approved a plan that allows countries to manage the issue as they see fit. Proponents of such a tax including the United States and Europe are free to go it alone, but the new plan allows the rest of the G20 to avoid the controversial idea and find other ways to reduce banking risks. Read Article
Telegraph – Croatia has cleared its last major obstacle to European Union membership after Slovenia voted in a referendum for a negotiated settlement to a bitter border dispute between the two neighbours. Early results from Sunday’s vote on a controversial maritime border treaty between Slovenia and Croatia showed a narrow Yes vote, of 51.6 per cent, after a closely fought campaign threatened to sink the deal. Read article
Expatica – Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will Friday address top world business and political leaders at an annual gathering of an elite international organisation known as the Bilderberg Group, the government said.
Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa de la Vega said he will “discusss the crisis the world is going through and the ways to face the challenges which all world economies are facing” at the meeting in the Mediterranean resort of Sitges. Read article
The Nation – Imagine NAFTA as a tiny amuse-bouche—the precursor to a larger, supranational feast. Imagine it came with structural funds to promote economic development in struggling areas—from Michigan to Monterrey to Manitoba—and a social chapter to shore up workers’ rights, and then the borders were thrown open so that labor could move freely along with capital. Imagine it then served up a North American Congress elected every five years from across the continent and added a North American Court of Human Rights. And then for the main course, it took the dollar (Canadian and US) and the peso off the menu and replaced them with a new currency (let’s call it the americano), which would be administered by the North American Central Bank. Read article
Irish Times – France will push for Africa to have membership of the G20 economies in a similar capacity to the European Union when it takes helm of the group next year, a French political source said. Read article
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There is an old military maxim that says the best place to hide something is in plain sight.
Of additional note should be that at least one member, Lord (Paddy) Ashdown has publicly acknowledged attending a Bilderberg meeting in the past – the 1989 event – as he readily admits in his Memoirs, The Ashdown Diaries – Volume One 1988-1997.
Times – Splash! Could that be the sound of Lord Mandelson hitting one of the Dolce hotel’s four pools? Or Robert Zoellick of the World Bank? Paul Volcker of the US Economic Recovery Advisory Board? Or merely the euro taking another dive? That is the thing about the Bilderberg group’s top secret meetings: you never know quite what is going on behind the police checkpoints. Read article
Reuters – French-inspired plans to create an “economic government” for the euro zone took a step forward on Wednesday when European Council President Herman Van Rompuy threw his weight behind the idea. The move raised pressure on Germany, Europe’s biggest economy and chief crusader for tougher budget discipline, to accept a new political forum to coordinate economic policy. Read article
BBC – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has forced governments to alter their behaviour in the eight years of its existence, the UN chief has said. Ban Ki-moon told a summit in Uganda discussing the Hague-based court that it had curtailed impunity and had broken new ground on victims’ rights. Read article
Newsy – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are in Beijing for high-level economic and political talks with China.
Express – GORDON Brown wants one of the world’s most important economic jobs as head of the International Monetary Fund, according to his closest school friend. Tom Brown said that his 59-year-old pal believes he has “one big job left in him”. Read article
Expatica – Spain’s prime minister said Monday he fully supports the idea of a union of Latin American states along the lines of the European Union. “I would wholeheatedly support a Latin American union,” Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero following a summit of the EU and the Caribbean nations belonging to the Cariforum organisation. The summit is part of a wider EU-Latin America summit, which has been broken up according to regional groupings, such as Mercosur, composed of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, and the Andean Community of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as well as Cariforum. Read article
Reuters – Euro zone member states will have to forego some of their national budget sovereignty if Europe’s single currency is to survive in the long term. That conviction is driving European Commission proposals for prior surveillance and peer review of national budget plans after the Greek debt crisis forced governments into a $1 trillion emergency package to stabilize the euro last week. Read Article
Financial Times – Germany’s parliament on Friday narrowly approved Berlin’s contribution to the European Union’s €750bn package of loan guarantees to stabilise the euro. Just 319 out of the 622 members of the Bundestag backed Germany’s €148bn contribution, underlining Berlin’s unease about helping Greece and setting up an emergency fund for other nations. Read Article
Financial Times – The German government is to press other eurozone countries to adopt their own versions of Berlin’s balanced budget law as part of a set of sweeping reforms to stabilise the euro. Germany last year enshrined in its constitution a law that prohibits the federal government from running a deficit of more than 0.35 per cent of gross domestic product by 2016. German states will not be allowed to run any deficit after 2020. Read Article
Business Standard – Following hot on the heels of Monday morning’s shock announcement of a trillion dollar safety net for an increasingly shaky euro, the European Commission today announced a set of proposals aimed at increasing the economic and fiscal coordination of European Union member states. Read Article
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