Hi everyone
Hi everyone. Ireland's T-Shock, Micheal Martin attended European Council meeting on Thursday and Friday just gone. And I want to hone in and focus in on a couple of issues that were discussed at this meeting which are very important in terms of how Europe moves forward. Now, first of all, he spoke about Ukraine. He went on to support Ukraine as long as it takes normal nonsense and more and more of our public money is going to be.
Siphoned off towards the money laundering machine that is Ukraine. But, it's about moving towards the accession of Ukraine as an EU member. Who'll be on the hook for that? Of course, ordinary working people of Ireland. And he also spoke about other countries moving forward that he wants to progress during his time as European Council president in a couple of weeks time to say Montenegro, another Balkan state he's looking for. He also went on to speak about competitiveness and this is very.
Important because this is a road map that the European Commission and Mario Draghi has been pushing over the last couple of years. This was agreed in Cyprus in April called one Europe, one market. And this is part of moving towards simpler flying rules for big business to make massive windfalls. This is more of the same that we've seen over the last few years in terms of the neoliberal agenda of the European Union, but it has major ramifications.
For Ireland in terms of the drive towards this single market. Now, of course, the European Union have had the European single market we've seen since the early '90s with the Maastricht Treaty. But, this now will move fast forward towards monopoly capital and towards the multinationals making massive windfalls in international finance. And think I'm looking for more growth of multinationals and we all know that multinationals can call the shots and big billionaires call the shots in the.
European Union. But these moves are a further erosion of democracy and the season of powers towards these supernational institution that the European Commission has become. And remember former ombudsman Emily O'Reilly said that this was run like a powerful consigliere making mafia connotations and criminal connotations to the operation of the European Commission. And remember as well that the only institution in the European Union that can implement legislation or introduce legislation rather is the European Commission at the behest of those big.
Corporate lobbyists all based in Brussels with 25,000 corporate
Corporate lobbyists all based in Brussels with 25,000 corporate lobbyists as well. Now this is about opening up the doors to big finance to make more and more windfalls and to erode nations democracy and nations sovereignty by seeding power to these supernational institutions. We've no control over monetary policy, no control over fiscal policy, no control essentially over our currency which is vitally important in terms of your national sovereignty. And remember Hermann Göring spoke in the Reichstag in.
1940 about the push towards a customs union, a single European market and fixed exchange rates and the move towards a single currency. Interesting connotations, isn't it in terms of what took place in Germany in 1940 in the context of what's taking place in Europe in 2026. And this has been pushed forward by Micheál Martin over the next period of time and one of the key architects of this also has been Pascal Donohoe, who's then moved off to.
The World Bank. And the big ambition of moving this forward in the next next period of time, and we'll see it during the European Union uh presidency here in Ireland, is the move towards reducing regulation, red tape, so-called bureaucracy, simplifying rules for those multinationals and big corporations to make more more windfalls, and move towards the bigger monopoly capital of ultimate control over most of our lives. And the drive towards the digital and AI transformation. That's the big push,.
Isn't it? The digital euro and the European digital wallet. This will be a key part of what's taking place in Ireland during the talks, during the European Union or European Council presidency. We'll see over the next number of weeks, which will take place up until the end of this year. But it has a massive undermining of democracy by seeding power to these institutions, and they have no oversight, no accountability, and as I stated earlier, is run like a powerful constabulary. So,.
“We'll see over the next number of weeks, which will take place up until the end of this year”
Watch out for the push towards this one Europe uh one market role that they're pushing towards the capital markets union. And at the same time, this has been supported by the Ibec, unsurprisingly, isn't it? In terms of what's taken place across Ireland. Big business rules, don't they? But not much has changed to well over 100 years ago. We had William Martin Murphy running the big businesses against the uh workers, and using the police to attack, baton, and kill workers during Bloody.
Sunday, 19 13, during the lockout period as well
Sunday, 19 13, during the lockout period as well. So, what's changed? Not very much in Irish society. And as well, they have the Ireland Action Plan on competitiveness, which has 85 actions. And this is about being pushing this forward, pushing this agenda forward about the one year one Europe one market and to reduce competitiveness or increase competitiveness rather, which is essentially attack on workers and pay and conditions. So, globalization, here we go. Mass immigration, race to the.
Bottom and also in terms of that widening inequalities and more money being siphoned off to those multinationals, which become massive monopolies. And this is part of what's happening with this rotten corrupt system currently and that are being progressed by Micheál Martin. So, watch out and be aware of what's taking place in Ireland right under our noses when it's not being even discussed in any way, shape or form by the Irish media about what's taking place. More of the.
Same and more of the drive towards wider inequality and deepen poverty here in Ireland. So, thanks for the support. Really appreciate it and from a lovely sunny bright Sunday morning here in Dublin, take care. I'll see you all soon. Thanks so much for the support. Everybody who's supporting me through buying me coffee recently, Caroline, thanks so much and to Lizzie as well for your very kind support through buying me coffee. So, Dublin today, slán go foil. See you.
Soon.
