{"id":43215,"date":"2013-06-18T21:17:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T20:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-cameron-barroso-push-eu-u-s-merger-at-g8-ireland-summit\/43215\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T21:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T20:17:23","slug":"obama-cameron-barroso-push-eu-u-s-merger-at-g8-ireland-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-cameron-barroso-push-eu-u-s-merger-at-g8-ireland-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Cameron, Barroso Push EU-U.S. Merger at G8 Ireland Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Barack Obama, in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, for the G8 Summit, joined European leaders in pushing the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a vast scheme for intertwining the economies and political structures of Europe and the United States. (See our detailed expos\u00c3\u00a9 of the TTIP, “Secretly Trading Away Our Independence.”<\/a>)<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister David Cameron opened the press conference with promises that the new \u201ctrade partnership\u201d would \u201cfire up our economies and drive growth and prosperity around the world,\u201d a common claim that has accompanied virtually every so-called trade agreement; but the reality has never matched the hype. Likewise for the assertion that it would produce millions of new jobs.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Cameron (see video below)\u00a0proclaimed: <\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome to Lough Erne. I always said that the whole point of this meeting in Lough Erne is to fire up our economies and drive growth and prosperity around the world\u00a0\u2013 to do things that make a real difference to people\u2019s lives. And there is no more powerful way to achieve that than by boosting trade. <\/p>\n

And there\u2019s no better way than by launching these negotiations on a landmark deal between the European Union and the United States of America\u00a0\u2013 a deal that could add as much as a \u00a3100 billion to the EU economy, \u00a380 billion to the U.S. economy, and as much as \u00a385 billion to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

And we should be clear about what these numbers could really mean: two million extra jobs, more choice and lower prices in our shops. We\u2019re talking about what could be the biggest bilateral trade deal in history; a deal that will have a greater impact than all the other trade deals on the table put together.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe intend to move forward fast.\u201d \u2013 Barroso<\/strong>
European Commission President Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Manuel Barroso followed in a similar vein, announcing, \u201cWe intend to move forward fast\u201d:<\/p>\n

Today is a special day for the relation between the European Union and the United States. Today we announce we will start negotiations of a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement.<\/p>\n

Very frankly, two years ago, very few would have bet that today we\u2019d be in the position to launch negotiations of an ambitious European Union-United States free trade agreement. And when the teams of the European Commission and United States will meet for the first round on the negotiations next month, it will be the start of a joint undertaking of real strategic importance\u2026.<\/p>\n

We intend to move forward fast. We can say that neither of us will give up content for the sake of speed, but we intend to make rapid progress. I\u2019d rather see the core challenge, moving our regulatory regimes closer, and addressing the harmful effect of behind-the-border trade barriers….<\/p>\n

President Obama (see video below)\u00a0told reporters: <\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m pleased to join these leaders to announce the launch of negotiations on a new trade agreement that will help us do just that\u00a0\u2013 the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, also known as TTIP\u2026. I can tell you that it has been warmly received in the United States as well, both in our Congress and in our business community. And that broad support, on both sides of the Atlantic, will help us work through some of the tough issues that have already been mentioned\u2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So this Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is going to be a priority of mine and my administration. It is important that we get it right\u00a0\u2013 and that means resisting the temptation to downsize our ambitions or avoid tough issues just for the sake of getting a deal.<\/p>\n

Selling \u201cInterdependence\u201d<\/strong>
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy called the G8\u2019s TTIP deal a \u201cspecial moment\u201d in which seeds are being planted today for the jobs of tomorrow. According to Van Rompuy:<\/p>\n

This is a special moment. At the last EU-U.S. summit with President Obama, we jointly decided to see if launching such historic negotiations would be possible. It was. And now we can already start the talks. A year and a half ago, we were not even sure the place had a door, and now we are entering the negotiating room together\u2026.<\/p>\n

We both know there are no magic solutions. Recent economic turbulence underlines this. But we cannot expect to harvest new jobs today; we can plant the seeds for the jobs of tomorrow. And that\u2019s exactly what the trade agreement is about.<\/p>\n

The positive ramifications will even go beyond the economy as such. We are making our economies all over the world more interdependent, and this will make the world safer.<\/p>\n

Van Rompuy did not explain how the \u201cinterdependence\u201d he praises will \u201cmake the world safer.\u201d The series of financial \u201ccontagions\u201d that have caused the near implosion of the world financial market can be traced to the interdependence<\/em> of the national central banks, the European Central Bank, the IMF and the global policies that these entities have pursued. Interdependence has allowed national and regional malfeasance and malpractice to mushroom into global threats, which are then cited as justification for still more centralization, globalization, and \u201cinterdependence.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is clear that the interdependence the G8 summiteers are promoting involves the same deceptive processes that have already destroyed the sovereign independence of the former nation states of Europe, which now find themselves trapped in an ever more oppressive regime dictated by shadowy EU bureaucrats in Brussels. As with the European Union, the TTIP plan is all about \u201cintegration\u201d\u00a0\u2013 economic and political integration and \u201cconvergence.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Bill Clinton\u2019s Secretary of State Warren Christopher gave a pretty strong hint of this in 1995, when he announced the \u201cTransatlantic Agenda for the 21st Century,\u201d stating<\/a>: \u201cThe long term objective is the integration of the economies of North America and Europe, consistent with the principles of the WTO.\u201d This, he averred, \u201cwill align our efforts to promote transatlantic integration with the forces of integration around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute is an avid internationalist who has publicly admitted that the \u201ctrade\u201d side of NAFTA masks the real nature of NAFTA and other trade pacts. \u201cWith economic integration will come political integration,\u201d he has acknowledged. And he has admitted further: \u201cBy whatever name, this is an incipient form of international government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under any form of international or world government, Americans, of course, would have none of the protections against tyranny afforded by our Constitution and Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n

Photo of Van Rompuy, Obama, Barroso, and Cameron at G8: AP Images<\/em><\/p>\n

Related articles<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Secretly Trading Away Our Independence<\/a><\/p>\n

United States of Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

CFR Applauds European Union\u2019s \u201cReal Subversion of Sovereignty\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Obama Pushing Trans-Atlantic Union with EU<\/a><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on: The New American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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