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Bernard Connolly The Rotten Heart of Europe EMUEuro- court outlaws. EU By Ambrose Evans- Pritchard in Brussels. Daily. Telegraph 2. THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the. European Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions.

English Common Law and 5. European precedents on civil liberties. The EU's top court found that the. European Commission was entitled to sack Bernard Connolly, a British.

European monetary. The Rotten Heart of Europe. NOW IT’S. BLASPHEMY TO MOCK EUROPEAmbrose Evans- Pritchard in The Spectator. Let the whistle blow Anatole Kaletsky, The Times. February 1. 1 1. 99. Until Europe enjoys true democracy, the brave are.

The Rotten Heart Of Europe. Author: Bernard Connolly Publisher: Faber & Faber Pagecount: 480 Category: Foreign exchange rates Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi, iBooks, Kindle. Total Read: 2593 Total Download: 1721 'The. Andrew White is a research vice president and agenda manager for MDM and Analytics at Gartner. Thoughts on Book Review: The Rotten Heart of Europe, Bernard Connolly, Faber and Faber, 1995, updated 2012. The Rotten Heart Of Europe. Author: Bernard Connolly Publisher: Faber & Faber Pagecount: 480 Category: Business & Economics Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi, iBooks, Kindle. Total Read: 2747 Total Download: 2972 'The Brussels. Book: Rotten Heart of Europe; Author: Bernard Connolly; ISBN13: 9780571301744; ISBN10: 0571301746; Summary

Why the Euro Crisis Isn't Over. Bernard Connolly foretold the misery that awaited the European Union. Given that he was an instrumental figure in the EU bureaucracy and publicly expressed his doubts in a book.

In 1. 99. 5, Bernard Connolly, a senior European civil servant, took a. European Commission's monetary. The product of his working. The Rotten Heart of Europe, still stands as the most. European institutions in the 1. This was a political project which had to be pursued by. European. nations had ever been willing to support it when it was presented openly as an.

Yesterday he. was finally given the chance to challenge his dismissal before the European. Court in Luxembourg. Mr Connolly claims that everything he said and did was. This case raises two broader issues, ranging well beyond Mr Connolly's. European citizens - .

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The second issue seems more technical and bureaucratic, but is. Europe. It can be. Whom is a civil servant supposed to serve? Reading the speeches and position papers put out by. German and French Governments and by community institutions, it is.

Europe. For. Tony Blair to deny this, as he does when he states that membership of EMU is. President Clinton has been accused.

This concept, lucidly described in Bernard Connolly's book. Europe will. never be achieved by the normal methods of political democracy; but political. European administrations. The transfers of power.

And the functional transfers must be made irreversible, a. European law and are therefore taken out of the ambit of. Europe is like a bicycle - it must keep moving forward or it will. The astonishing popularity of this metaphor among European. British Foreign Office: a bicycle does not fall over when it. The purpose of EMU was to. My counter- argument to this.

This question is also at the heart of the second much more. That case centred on the allegations of widespread corruption in the.

Paul van Buitenen, an audit official who. But the fundamental issue was the same. Should they answer solely to their immediate superiors and commissioners or can. Mr Connolly, a wider loyalty to the European public at.

Britain, civil servants may be muzzled, but at least ministerial responsibility. In the new Europe, by contrast, power and responsibility seem. Even when there is public accountability, this is not.

The European Central Bank. But. even if this comical claim were taken at face value, the bank's accountability.

They are unelected, yet in contrast to the heads of Civil Service. The lack of accountability, also known as the . In the absence of.

Bernard Connolly i WSJ 9. Kohl's. Compromise Won't Satisfy French Demands German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has dug himself into a deep hole. Bundesbank to revalue Germany's gold reserves. The key miscalculation seems to have been Mr. Kohl's reliance on. Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer.

Tietmeyer, himself. Mr. Kohl. and is reported to have said that he would never betray the chancellor on the. EMU question. He has believed monetary union to be necessary to cement the. Franco- German rapprochement and tie Germany into Western Europe. Yet for several weeks before Frankfurt's devastatingly negative. Bundesbank. president had said virtually nothing in public, a sign perhaps of a deep inner. It seems likely that Mr.

Tietmeyer, while strongly supporting the. Maastricht. version is not going to work, or at least not as the Bundesbank believes it. Tietmeyer was responsible for the deeply felt rhetoric with. Bundesbank greeted the Maastricht Treaty: monetary union required. Acceptance of the. Bundesbank philosophy of fiscal virtue and monetary stability.

The most. important sign of all would be the complete freedom of the European Central. Bank from national political interference. Predictably, though unfortunately for Mr. Tietmeyer's vision. EMU can never be met.

For starters, France and most other EU. Germany. A breakdown on the issue at the Dublin summit in December was. Mr. Kohl gave into French President Jacques Chirac's frantic. Kohl's agreement meant it was going to be nearly. Worse, when the Maastricht criteria fudge factory went into. Germany showed itself. In response, the markets started placing very big bets on.

Spain, Portugal and Italy - - countries that Mr. Tietmeyer would. definitely be unhappy to see in EMU. Judging from the falling mark and rising lira, the market thinks a. EMU is now very probable.

It is underestimating the chance of delay. So whereas in the first three years of the European Monetary. Institute's existence its council had been a Bundesbank fief, for the past six. This. left the Bundesbank chief disheartened.

France's insistence on political control of the ECB and on the. EMU entry of the southern countries indicated that it intended to. ERM, as. well as other areas of EU life. If that happened, EMU would not unite France. Germany in common cause but instead create a deep rift between a French- led.

Bundesbank- led club of central- bank. Tietmeyer's last substantial public comments before he. French. Socialists issued their list of conditions for EMU. Tietmeyer. there should be monetary union. But he then rebutted the Socialist EMU program. French left). Shortly afterwards, Mr.

Kohl and Finance Minister Theo Waigel. France and by at least one European Commission official as demonstrating. Germany's political commitment to EMU and its willingness to fudge the criteria. What the Bundesbank really could not stomach was the notion that. It marked a blatant disregard of previous promises.

Germany's performance on the Maastricht criteria, thus making it. French demands on EMU membership and. The gold revaluation plan was followed 1. French elections that more budgetary. France as it was in Germany. And the. vain attempts by the French right to steal the Socialists' clothes on EMU. Frankfurt as further proof that Mr.

Tietmeyer's. warnings had been disregarded. It was just too much for the Bundesbank to take. Kohl's EMU house down. Yet the gold issue.

Bundesbank vision of an acceptable EMU and what the new French government - - in. Mr. Tietmeyer's comments a month ago - - is now. Italy, and the creation of an . Judging from the falling mark and rising lira, the market thinks a. EMU is now very probable. It is underestimating the chance of delay. Kohl is there when the EMU decision is made, he will give in to France.

Italy, as he always has in past showdowns (such as setting a fixed date for. EMU at Maastricht).

But the combination of the French demands with Mr. Kohl's lost. authority is a potent one.

The Bundesbank is out of tune with the German. France's demands. But it is very. much in tune with public opinion. Kohl is now being squeezed hard between.

France and the German political establishment, on one side, and the Bundesbank. German public, on the other. Kohl must know that Edmund Stoiber (the CSU state premier of. Bavaria), Kurt Biedenkopf (the CDU state premier of Saxony) and popular. Gerhard Schroeder may seize the opportunity to call for a.

Kohl- less grand coalition as a way of tackling Germany's domestic problems free. EMU. Kohl keeps his. Oskar. Lafontaine, who would surely rather face Mr. Kohl in an election than be. French politicians, left and right, are already lining up to voice. Mr. Kohl against the Bundesbank (something that will only add to.

They almost seem to be getting ready to blame the Bundesbank for an EMU. In these circumstances, one could well imagine that Mr. Tietmeyer. though still hoping for a narrow, hard EMU, would opt for advocating a joint. Franco- German initiative on delay as the course least likely to lead to.

Diplomats report that before Easter France quietly asked the Dutch. EU presidency to propose a delay.

Kohl quashed that idea; early French. Chirac has now paid a heavy price. Kohl's decision. Kohl could yet pay even more heavily.

Connolly is managing director, international economics, of. AIG International. He was formerly head of the European Commission unit.

European Monetary System. Bernard Connollys kritik av den europeiska valutaunionen En av de. Boken diskuteras i denna rapport av Johan Hakelius, ledarskribent. EMU handlar mer om makt och politik . De fyrahundra. sidorna dryper bildligt talat av blod, skriver Hakelius.