[P2P-F] article trends : 2 Belges sur 3 veulent taxer les transactions financières

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

Unfortunately, the situation of the current Belgian "caretaker" Government
may not make it possible to bring forward and apply such Tobin Tax measures.

And even if it did
( although I would need some more expert opinion on this )
my current understanding is that

the European Commission drafts directives can block or over-rule national or
regional decisions.

To my current understanding, directives of the European Commission

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_law

only need to be approved by the European Council and the European Parliament
- not by national governments.

To my current understanding, it is not the european parliament which drafts
law proposals at a european level.

For the European Commission to "consider" to draft or change a directive,
there is the "option" to make a petition converging one million
signatures. ( under specific conditions - percentages from each country, etc
)

And even after such petition asking for writing or modifying a directive,
there is no obligation for the commission to follow suit on such request by
one million people.

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European Union - Democratic ?



2011/6/29 Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

> strong social support for tobin tax in belgium:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
> Date: 2011/6/29
> Subject: article trends : 2 Belges sur 3 veulent taxer les transactions
> financières
> To: gtmonnaie at gtmonnaie.be, econowmix at googlegroups.com
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> 2 Belges sur 3 veulent taxer les transactions financières
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> http://trends.rnews.be/fr/economie/actualite/banque-et-finance/2-belges-sur-3-veulent-taxer-les-transactions-financieres/article-1195046610002.htm
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> lundi 27 juin 2011 à 16h58
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> *67 % des Belges sont favorables à l'introduction d'une taxe sur les
> transactions financières, selon un sondage Eurobaromètre publié par le
> Parlement européen. C’est plus que la moyenne de l’UE*
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