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involved in a municipal utility, local authorities are under obligation
to invite tenders for contracts from all over Europe. This verdict applies
to all contracts relating to the supply and delivery of services with a
threshold value of €200,000 and for construction contracts worth
over €5 million. 54 Town and city councils are no longer free to grant
contracts of this nature to municipal or local firms. Equally disastrous
is the fact that 60-80 per cent of EU guidelines and laws have a direct or
indirect effect on local authorities within the member states, who are
compelled to adhere to these guidelines without themselves being able
to exert any influence whatsoever on EU legislation.
“The European nations did not have to be
forced to their knees; they volunteered to
capitulate – on the initiative of the super rich,
who stand to profit from this capitulation.
Big corporate capital is the instigator
behind the transfer of sovereign rights
to Brussels, because the decision-making
structures here cannot be democratically
controlled, making it easier for the lobbyists
to exert their influence.”
Jürgen Elsässer in his book “Nationalstaat und Globalisierung”,
published in 2009 (p.26)
The opening up of markets within the EU promotes the Europewide
fusion of multinational companies in the gas, electricity and water
sectors. Private monopolies come about as a result and price rigging
can no longer be prevented, not even by the Monopolies Commission
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