>press release
>
>Holland - january 4, 1999
>
>dutch minister receives banana-vanille pie in his face
>
>T.A.A.R.T. strikes again!!
>
>Today the actiongroup T.A.A.R.T. (dutch for PIE), surprised the dutch
>finance minister Gerrit Zalm with two delicious vanille-banana pies (100%
>organic) in his face. With this action we want to celebrate his
contribution to
>the introduction of the euro: one of the most undemocratic, megalomanic plan
>imposed on the population this century.
>Also, we want to congratulate big business, that finally succeeded in creating
>the unified coin - euro-, after years of lobbying in shady organisations
>like the Association for a Monetary Union and the European Roundtable of
>Industrialists (ERT).
>The euro, the crown on the Internal Market - also a corporate initiative
>realised by european politicians.
>
>What are the objections of T.A.A.R.T. against the euro?
>
>1. For years now, the EMU project (Economic and Monetary Union) has
>been an excuse for politicians and the corporate world to annoy the
>European population with budget-cuts and reorganisations. Because we had
>to be ready for the euro and catch up with the EMU criteria! In the future,
>downsizing, public spending cuts and reorganisations will become structural
>policy, thanks to the Stability Pact. Governments have to balance their
>budgets according to this pact, and are not allowed to spend too much
>money on for example social security and health care.
>If not, they will be punished by the omnipotent and unaccountable European
>Central Bank.
>The euro - we're all going to pay for this. Or, talking in Zalm-speak: "we
>have to increase the safety margins".
>
>2. For the business world, the euro offers lots of advantages, but european
>citizens won't taste the benefits. Just like always, europeans will have to
pay
>for using cash points, changing valuta and bank transactions. All the euro
>propaganda with which the government harassed us (tv ads, billboards,
>government leaflets, free info lines, newspaper advertisements etc) prove to
>be based on lies. The euro offers beautiful possibilities for companies to
>increase their monstruous profits. A strong, stable currency; a uniform,
>transparent market.... european politicians are trying their very best to
>create
>the most ideal circumstances for companies. Like Dutch Bank director Nout
>Wellink explained: "maintaining the Stability Pact is crucial for the trust of
>the private sector".
>
>3. Entirely according to European Union traditions, the european population
>was not included in the decision to introduce the euro. The euro will be for
>all of us! the European Commission says, but no-one voted for it! Just a few
>countries had a referendum on the subject. Dutch politicians must be thinking
>the population is too stupid to have a say in this. And now we are told - like
>we are little children - to be very happy with the new currency. What a
>shame!
>
>4. The euro is the next in a series of megalomanic plans, thought out by
>euro-fanatics who only think in terms of economic growth, ideal
>circumstances for companies and the competing power of the EU. The
>European Union is beginning to look more and more like an economic-
>monetary dictatorship in which european politicians obediently realise the
>wishes of corporate Europe, at the cost of european citizens.
>
>T.A.A.R.T. does not feel sad about the disappearing of the dutch Guilder,
>but opposes a unified Europe in which monetary and economic interests
>prevail, without the population having any say in this. T.A.A.R.T. is in
>favour of true international cooperation, not based on money and corporate
>interests, but on solidarity, hospitality, fair trade and true democracy.
>
>no to a europe of bankers and companies!!! international solidarity instead
>of euro-dictatorship!!!
>
>MORE INFO, PICTURES, FILM, DISCUSSION:
>
>http://members.tripod.com/~taart
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>http://www.dsl.nl/eurodusnie
>anarchist collective EuroDusnie
>visiting address:
>Boerhaavelaan 345
>Leiden
>tel/fax 071 5173019
>snailmail to:
>P.O.box 2228
>2301CE Leiden
>Netherlands
>phone/fax: (+31)(0)71 5173019
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Antti Rautiainen - antti.rautiainen at pp.kolumbus.fi
"What should we negotiate about - should we negotiate whether to shoot them in the morning or in the evening?"
Finnish furfarmers about animalrights activists 19.12.1997.