7-YEAR PLAN ALIGNS U.S. WITH EUROPE’S ECONOMY

2008-01-19

Richard Moore

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59713

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Bush and European Commission 
President Jose Manuel Barroso at a White House summit meeting last April where 
they launched the Transatlantic Economic Council Six U.S. senators and 49 House 
members are advisers for a group working toward a Transatlantic Common Market 
between the U.S. and the European Union by 2015.

The Transatlantic Policy Network ­ a non-governmental organization headquartered
in Washington and Brussels ­ is advised by the bi-partisan congressional TPN 
policy group, chaired by Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah.

The plan ­ currently being implemented by the Bush administration with the 
formation of the Transatlantic Economic Council in April 2007 ­ appears to be 
following a plan written in 1939 by a world-government advocate who sought to 
create a Transatlantic Union as an international governing body.

An economist from the World Bank has argued in print that the formation of the 
Transatlantic Common Market is designed to follow the blueprint of Jean Monnet, 
a key intellectual architect of the European Union, recognizing that economic 
integration must inevitably lead to political integration.

As WND previously reported, a key step in advancing this goal was the creation 
of the Transatlantic Economic Council by the U.S. and the EU through an 
agreement signed by President Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ­ the 
current president of the European Council ­ and European Commission President 
Jose Manuel Barroso at a White House summit meeting last April.

Writing in the Fall 2007 issue of the Streit Council journal "Freedom and 
Union," Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., a member of the TPN advisory group, affirmed 
the target date of 2015 for the creation of a Transatlantic Common Market.

Costa said the Transatlantic Economic Council is tasked with creating the 
Transatlantic Common Market regulatory infrastructure. The infrastructure would 
not require congressional approval, like a new free-trade agreement would.

Writing in the same issue of the Streit Council publication, Bennett also 
confirmed that what has become known as the "Merkel initiative" would allow the 
Transatlantic Economic Council to integrate and harmonize administrative rules 
and regulations between the U.S. and the EU "in a very quiet way," without 
introducing a new free trade agreement to Congress.

No document on the TEC website suggests that any of the regulatory changes 
resulting from the process of integrating with the EU will be posted in the 
Federal Register or submitted to Congress as new free-trade agreements or as 
modifications to existing trade agreements.

In addition to Bennett, the advisers to the Transatlantic Policy Network 
includes the following senators: Thad Cochran, R-Miss.; Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; 
Barbara Mikulski, D-Md.; Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; and Gordon Smith, R-Ore.

Among the 49 U.S. congressmen on the TPN's Congressional Group are John Boehner,
R-Ohio; John Dingell, D-Mich.; Kenny Marchant, R-Texas; and F. James 
Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc.

WND contacted Bennett's office for comment but received no return call by the 
publication deadline.

A progress report on the TEC website indicates the following U.S. government 
agencies are already at work integrating and harmonizing administrative rules 
and regulations with their EU counterparts: The Office of Management and Budget,
the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Securities and Exchange 
Commission.

A step toward world government

The Streit Council is named after Clarence K. Streit, whose 1939 book "Union 
Now" called for the creation of a Transatlantic Union as a step toward world 
government. The new federation, with an international constitution, was to 
include the 15 democracies of U.S., UK, France, Australia, Belgium, Canada, 
Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, 
Switzerland and South Africa.

Ira Straus, the founder and U.S. coordinator of the Committee on Eastern Europe 
and Russia in NATO, a group dedicated to including Russia within NATO, credits 
Bennett as TPN chairperson with reviving Streit's work "seven decades later."

A globalist with leftist political leanings, Straus was a Fulbright professor of
political science at Moscow State University and the Moscow State Institute of 
International Relations from 2001 to 2002.

The congruity of ideas between Bennett and Streit is clear when Bennett writes 
passages that echo precisely goals Streit stated in 1939.

One example is Bennett's claim in his Streit Council article that creating a 
Transatlantic Common Market would combine markets that comprise 60 percent of 
world Gross Domestic Product under a common regulatory standard that would 
become "the de facto world standard, regardless of what any other parties say."

Similarly, Streit wrote in "Union Now" that the economic power of the 15 
democracies he sought to combine in a Transatlantic Union would be overwhelming 
in their economic power and a clear challenge to the authoritarian states then 
represented by Nazi Germany and the communist Soviet Union.

Also writing in the Fall 2007 issue of the Streit Council journal "Freedom and 
Union," World Bank economist Domenec Ruiz Devesa openly acknowledged that 
"transatlantic economic integration, though important in itself, is not the 
end."

"As understood by Jean Monnet," he continued, "economic integration must and 
will lead to political integration, since an integrated market requires common 
institutions producing common rules to govern it."

Transatlantic Common Market by 2015

Last February, the Transatlantic Policy Network formed a Transatlantic Market 
Implementation Group to put in place "a roadmap and framework" to direct the 
activity of the Transatlantic Economic Council to achieve the creation of the 
Transatlantic Common Market by 2015.

The Transatlantic Economic Council is an official international governmental 
body established by executive fiat in the U.S. and the EU without congressional 
approval or oversight. No new law or treaty was sought by the Bush 
administration to approve or implement the plan to create a Transatlantic Common
Market.

The U.S. congressmen and senators are involved only indirectly, as advisers to 
the influential non-governmental organization.

In a February 2007 document entitled "Completing the Transatlantic Market," the 
TPN's Transatlantic Market Implementation Group writes, "The aim of this roadmap
and framework would be to remove barriers to trade and investment across the 
Atlantic and to reduce regulatory compliance costs."

The document further acknowledged the impact the Transatlantic Common Market 
agenda would have on U.S. and European legislators: "The roadmap and framework 
will necessarily oblige legislative and regulatory authorities in both Europe 
and the United States to take into consideration from the outset the impact 
their acts may have on transatlantic economic relations and to ensure that their
respective governmental bodies involved have the necessary budgetary and 
organizational resources to work closely with each other."

Clinton administration roots

The work to create a Transatlantic Common Market can be traced back to the 
Clinton administration's decision to join in the 1995 New Transatlantic Agenda 
with the European Commission.

Today, the website of the Transatlantic Economic Council openly proclaims the 
TEC is "a political body to oversee and accelerate government-to-government 
integration between the European Union and the United States of America."

The first meeting of the TEC was held Nov. 9 in Washington, D.C., and the next 
meeting is scheduled for June.

A joint statement issued at the Nov. 9 meeting specified progress was being made
"in removing barriers to trade and investment and in easing regulatory burdens" 
in a wide range of policy areas, including drugs and disease control, the 
importation into the EU of U.S. poultry treated with pathogen reduction 
treatments, federal communication commissions allowing suppliers to create 
declarations of conformity for products, uniform standards for electrical 
products and agreements on standards for pure biofuels.
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