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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:21:53 -0400
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From:         "(Anastassiades - Advanced Rotorcraft Technology / NASA Ames)"
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Subject:      EOK-sxolia (ligo megalo)
Comments: To: hellas@brownvm.bitnet@6913.DNET.NASA.GOV

Kalhmera se olous,

Parakato paratheto ena arthro-sxolio gia thn Eurwpa.i.kh synodo
koryfhs pou tha ginei stis 26 Oktwvriou (an den kano lathos).
Diabazontas ayto to arthro, skeftomouna oti, me tetoia myala, to
orama ths enomenhs Eyrwphs den prokeitai pote na pragmatopoiithei.
Yparxei mia diaxyth kaxypopsia stous polites ths kathe xoras melous
ths EOK, pou ekdhlonetai me to OXI sth synthikh tou Maastricht
ths Danias, me to dhmopsifhfhsma sth Gallia, pou molis kai meta bias
eipe NAI, alla kai me th genikh ethnokentrikh "mania" pou autes tis
metapsyxropolemikes meres exei kyrieusei tous Eurwpaious (kai oxi mono).

Apo th mia einai i genikh ayth katastash pou epikratei se olo ton
kosmo, kai ap'thn allh einai to gegonos oti oi Eyrwpaioi itan
anekathen syspeiromenoi gyro apo to kratos tous.

H aitia gia thn kaxypopsia einai oi prospatheies ths Germanias/Gallias
na kyriarxisoun mesa sthn EOK se baros ton mikroteron, kai to synaisthima
oti i kathe xora tha ypostei mia apoleia topikon exousion tis opoies
tha antikatasthsei mia kentriki grafeiokratikh "Omospondiaki" kyvernisi
me edra tis Bryxelles (ousiastika me edra th Bonnh afoy ekei tha briskontai
ta kentrika grafeia ths Bundesbank...).

Oi grafeiokrates ths EOK biazontai na kataskeyasoyn kati pou ypo tis
paroyses synthhkes einai (kata th gnomh moy) oytopiko: Ton syntonismo
basikon exousion apo ena kentriko soma me nomothetikes kai ektelestikes
exousies pou tha isxyoyn se olo to fasma twn toso diaforetikwn xwrwn
melwn ths EOK.  Kai ayto epi pleon ths oikonomikhs enwshs! To
xarakthrizo oytopiko, giati ena tetoio soma tha einai anapofeykta organo
ton ploysioterwn xwrwn, kai einai fysiko na einai prwtista prosanatolismeno
pros ta symferonta ekeinwn, me ta symferonta twn mikroteron se deytereyousa
moira.  As afhsoyme kata meros to gegonos oti ena tetoio swma den tha einai
se thesh na parei apofaseis poy tha lambanoyn yp'opsh tous oles tis
idiomorfies poy xarakthrizoyn ton kathe lao ths Eyrwphs... Gia na mporesei
mia tetoia "diataxh" na leitoyrghsei ikanopoiithka, tha prepei oi diafores
twn katoikwn ths Elladas kai ths Danias (gia paradeigma) sth
glwssa, stis synhtheies, sth nootropia, ktl., na syrriknothoyn sto
epipedo ton diaforwn poy exoyn oi katoikoi toy Maryland me toys katoikoys ths
...Pennsylvanias - dhladh sto elaxisto!!! Mono tote tha mporei mia kentrikh
exoysia na lambanei apofaseis poy na aggizoyn pano kato to idio oloys
toys katoikoys ths Enwmenhs Eyrwphs.

Einai diaforetikh h **oikonomikh** enwsh olwn aytwn twn eteroklhtwn
oikonomiwn, apo thn "olikh" enwsh poy epidiwketai.  Pisteyw oti mia
oikonomikh enwsh mporei na doylepsei kai na ferei kala apotelesmata.
Pisteyw akoma oti h katarghsh periorismwn kinhshs, egkatastashs,
eyresews ergasias, ktl. einai kai efikth kai symferoysa.  Sthn Ellada -
opws allwste to exw janagrapsei - epikratei h genikh apopsh oti "as
erthei h EOK na balei tajh sto xaos...".  Ayto, profanws, tha htan arxika
panakeia:

 - Fantasteite mia omada xenon, asxeth me Mitsotakh, dekaexabalbido,
   politika symferonta, ktl., na erthei kai na parei metra poy tha einai
   pragmatika swthria, xwris na syllogizetai politiko kostos, an tha ton
   janapshfisoyn, ktl...

 - Fantasteite na erthei na pei oti "ta aythaireta einai xtismena paranoma,"
   kai na ta katedafhsei ola!

 - Fantasteite na erthei kai na balei tajh sto dhmosio tomea, na parei sklhra
   metra, na apolysei toys argomisthoys, na ejaleipsei to roysfeti, na
   periorisei ths ayjhseis, wste na mhdenhsei sto telos to dhmosio xreos!

 - Fantasteite, fantasteite, fantasteite...

Otan omws aytoi poy tha baloyn thn tajh sto xaos arxisoyn na zhtane
antallagmata, arxisoyn kai bazoyn toys dikoys toys oroys, arxisoyn
kai pairnoyn metra me ta opoia sto telos mporei na mh symfwnoyme, alla
na prepei na ta efarmosoyme ypoxrewtika, tote tha einai pia arga! Tha
shmainei oti den orizoyme pia jekathara thn tyxh mas kai tha exoyme
mpei se ena faylo kyklo ap'ton opoio den tha yparxei tropos diafyghs!
Ayto to stadio den to skeftomaste twra, kai mas einai eykolo na leme
"as erthei h EOK na katharisei..."  As doyme thn katastash realistika:
Pieseis pros thn Ellada gia anagnwrish twn Skopiwn, pieseis gia th
lysh toy Kypriakoy me opoioysdhpote oroys, ola ayta me th dikaiologia
ths "omalhs koinotikhs poreias."  Kai ayta ginontai hdh twra **prin**
apo thn perifhmh "olikh enopoiish."

Pisteyo se mia enwmenh Eyrwph mesa sthn opoia tha exoyn ejaleifthei
oi taseis katadynasteyshs kai monopwlioy twn isxyrwn pros toys
adynatoys.  Pisteyw se mia enwmenh Eyrwph h opoia tha boresei na
kanei prajh ola ta idewdh poy anaferontai sto idrytiko katastatiko ths.
Pisteyw se mia enwmenh Eyrwph h opoia tha kataferei na prosferei ises
eykairies stoys polites ths xwris na toys sterei tis idiaiterothtes
poy toys diakrinoyn.  An kataferoyme na petyxoyme aytoys toys stoxoys,
tote nai.  To an nomizw oti aytoi oi stoxoi mporoyn na epiteyxtoyn lambanontas
yp'opsh thn anthrwpinh fysh, ayto einai allh istoria...

Xwris omws na xanw thn elpida, eyxomai kalo Sabbatokyriako,

Tassos Anastassiades
Mountain View, CA

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Subject: Special European summit unlikely to take major decisions
Keywords: non-usa government, government operation, non-usa economy,
	economy, international trade, trade, foreign exchange, money
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:43:22 GMT
X-Supersedes: <europeU2OF910ae@clarinet.com>
Location: great britain, western europe
ACategory: financial
Slugword: europe
Priority: regular
Format: regular
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Codes: ybgfrxx., yfefrgb., ybsirxw., yfferxx.


	BIRMINGHAM, England (UPI) -- The special summit of European Community
leaders Friday is unlikely to result in new initiatives to calm the
turbulent currency exchange markets or give new impetus to the battered
Maastricht Treaty on unity, according to political analysts.
	As a result, the one-day session in the grimy, industrial city of
Birmingham will probably be little more than a public relations exercise
to present a united front behind the treaty with the aim of helping
British Prime Minister John Major and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
secure its ratification in their country's parliaments.
	The narrowness of the French ``yes'' in a referendum on the
Maastricht Treaty last month and the turbulence on the exchange markets
that preceded and followed the vote served to underline the schism
between the EC leaders who negotiated the document and the average
voter.
	As the 12 EC leaders prepared to gather in Birmingham, it was
becoming increasingly doubtful that the treaty, even if ratified by all
12 members, would ever be implemented in its current form. The strategy
adopted by the leaders, according to numerous analysts, is to secure
approval of the document before modifying it to take into account
political and economic realities.
	Those realities include widespread doubts about the treaty not only
in Denmark, where voters rejected the document in a June referendum, but
also in France, Germany and Britain. The treaty has already been
approved by Belgium, Ireland, Greece, France and Luxembourg and is
expected to be adopted without problem by Spain and Portugal.
	With public opinion against Maastricht growing in Germany, for
example, Finance Minister Theo Waigel promised last week that the
government would not allow the replacement of the deutsche mark by a
single currency without the express approval of parliament.
	Although he vigorously denied it, Waigel's statement was in fact an
``opt-out'' clause not to apply the treaty's most important section,
namely the creation of a single currency and central bank to manage it.
It also sent a clear signal to other EC governments that Bonn may not be
as ready as was thought to give up its command of monetary policy to a
European central bank, even one tailored to German specifications.
	French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas insisted Thursday that the
Birmingham meeting ``will confirm the will of the countries currently
engaged in the ratification process of the Maastricht Treaty to carry it
through rapidly.'' He reiterated the often expressed French and German
view that the treaty cannot be renegotiated, but most analysts now agree
that the treaty approved last December in the Dutch city of Maastricht
by the 12 EC heads of government has been overtaken by events.
	The only substantive matter expected to emerge from the meeting is a
vaguely-worded declaration outlining the principle of ``subsidiarity,''
the word used to describe the areas in which the Community can legislate
in the place of the individual member governments. European leaders see
the issue as the answer to widespread charges that the EC, and
especially the European Commission, has overstepped its mandate and
involved itself in areas best left to the individual governments.
	Major, whose country currently holds the rotating EC presidency,
called Friday's summit for what he hoped would be an examination of the
European Monetary System and the problem posed by the Danish rejection
of Maastricht.
	At first the British prime minister said he would delay presenting
the treaty for approval by parliament until the Danish issue was
resolved, seeing the tactic as a way to diffuse opposition from his own
Conservative Party. But he was forced to backtrack following strong
pressure from France and Germany and amidst widespread speculation that
Paris and Bonn would bypass London and move more rapidly towards
implementation by a small group of core EC countries.
	The reform of the European Monetary System, which Major has called
for following last month's crisis that saw the ``temporary'' withdrawl
of the British pound from the system's exchange rate mechanism, has also
been postponed due to strong opposition from the German Bundesbank to
the automatic re-entry of the British pound into the system.
	Fearing that a formal discussion of exchange rates could result in
further instability in the money markets, EC leaders decided not to
invite their finance ministers to Birmingham. Some analysts, however,
believe the monetary system will come into the discussions despite the
absence of the ministers, but they say the room for taking any action is
highly limited.
	``I think people are skeptical because its not really clear what you
can do to the system after its been around for 12 years,'' remarked
Kevin Logan, chief economist for Swiss Bank Corp. in New York. ``Widen
the bands? Narrow the bands? I can't imagine what the reforms might be.
They're talking about flexibility but not saying what that means, and
these terms and decisions become clear only in practice.''
	The third major topic originally on the agenda was the formulation of
a special declaration clarifying the most controversial aspects of the
treaty. Such a document, it is argued, would allow the Danish government
to hold a new referendum on the treaty. The Danes have presented a
report outlining their problems with Maastricht, but the declaration
itself will not be approved until the regular year-end summit in
December.
	That leaves little more than vague declarations about the will to
fully ratify Maastricht and a family photograph of the smiling EC
leaders on the agenda in Birmingham.
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