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The European Union prepares the ‘solidarity clause’ framework – Published on Global Research.ca (first on 911forum.org.uk).

The use of the “European Gendarmerie Force” (EUROGENDFOR) is made possible by the “solidarity clause” as Heise reported. At the unit, headquartered in Vicenza, Italy, all EU Member States are involved, the Gendarmerien; police forces with military status are to be used.

The founding countries of the EUROGENDFOR include Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and the Netherlands. We provide our services to the police unit of the EU, NATO or the UN.  

“The ‘solidarity clause’ is redundant, since the EU already has mechanisms for mutual assistance in case of disasters. Secondly, the clause amplifies the course to a militarization of domestic politics, since upon request the military can be used in another Member State.

“On Tuesday, the representatives of the EU Member States in the Council adopted a decision on the so-called ‘solidarity clause’. Were a disaster or a loosely defined crisis to occur, the organs of the European Union would be obliged to assist using all the instruments at their disposal. This includes military resources”, warned Member of the Bundestag Andrej Hunko.

The proposal on ‘arrangements for the implementation by the Union of the Solidarity Clause’ was jointly presented by the Commission and the EU High Representative in 2012. A country can invoke the “solidarity clause” if a crisis “overwhelms its response capacities”. Mention is made of operational, policy and financial instruments and structures … //

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Links:

Randy Wray: The Rise of Monetary Cranks and Fixing What Ain’t Broke, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, June 30, 2014;

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‘Just desert’ and neoclassical income distribution theory, on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Lars Syll, June 29, 2014;

The gap in the USA between the rate, of growth of productivity (now at 11.4 percent) and that of wages (1.5 percent) continues to widen, on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by David Ruccio, June 28, 2014;

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