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Action of solidarity to the Irish No campaign by CEO, CNE, CAE and Ander Europa in Wednesday 23 May at 18.00 ATTENTION - Because of police prohibition to demonstrate in Rue la Loi, we have to change the meeting place to: Entrance of Park Cinquantenaire on Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée 1000 BRUSSELS

Statement from the conference organised by Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute on the 5-6th of May. The Austerity Treaty – or the so called Fiscal Compact - if implemented, would pose a direct threat to the welfare state across Europe and be a major obstacle to redistributive, progressive and socially just economic policies in the future. It also represents the latest attempt to turn economic policy into a technocratic endeavour outside of democratic control, with unelected bureaucrats in a powerful, decision making role.

Réforme des marchés financiers, réforme des traités de l'UE, accords commerciaux internationaux, politiques énergétiques et climatiques, agriculture et biotechnologies, alimentation... Autant de politiques européennes susceptibles de constituer des cibles pour le lobbying des entreprises, autant de sujets où les arguments commerciaux avancent sous le couvert d'arguments techniques dont il est difficile de mesurer la portée politique.

On 27 March, the Budget committee voted on an excellent report by MEP Monica Luisa Macovei (PPE, Romania), proposing to postpone the approval of the 2010 budget of the European Food Safety Authority. Macovei stated that "conflicts of interest could .. have a negative impact on the impartiality of the decision-making process and also on the citizens' trust in the institutions". The vote in Plenary is scheduled on 10 May 2012.