[Deuda-QdQ] comunicado resumen de las actividades anti G-20 en Bruselas

[Tom Kucharz - Ecologistas en Acción]

Buenos días, queridas/os amigas/os:

Adjunto el comunicado resumen de las actividades anti G-20 en Bruselas,
organizadas por el espacio europeo entre redes ante la crisis global.

En resumen lo que me han dicho es que la idea es de trabajar alrededor
the "hundir el sector financiero" y "hacerle pagar por la crisis",
haciendo campañas concretas, entre otras por una tasa de transacciones
financieras, pero también por un cambio profundo del sistema
financiero/bancario - se va desarollar un documento común, que deberia
formular principios - como con la Soberanía Alimentaria - que tipo de
bancos/sector financiaro hace falta, para que sea democratico, y apoya a
una economia sostenible etc.

Besos, Tom


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*European Civil Society Organisations agree on joint campaign for a
Democratic restructuring of Finance *

*"Make them pay for their crisis" – Financial Transaction Tax a
spearhead demand *



Brussels, 28^th of September 2009



During the 3^rd European Cross Networking meeting on the Global
Crisis[1] <#_ftn1> held in parallel to the G20 Pittsburgh Summit in
Brussels, the present European Civil Society Networks and organisations
agreed to start a joint campaign for the democratic restructuring of
Finance at the service of social justice and environmental sustainability.



In the coming months, the Financial Transaction Tax will be one of the
spearheads of this campaign, given the current economic and political
leverage:



1.    It has a regulatory potential by contributing to curb speculation.
It will shrink the financial sector and contribute to break the
dominance of finance over the real economy and society.

2.    The question who pays for the crisis will be on top of the agenda
in the coming years with pressure to cut public expenditures. The Tax
offers a powerful alternative with a strong distributionary dimension by
making those pay for the crisis who were benefiting from the system and
are responsible for the crash. “Make them pay for their crisis” will
consequently be one of the main slogans.

3.    There is a strong political momentum with France, Germany, Belgium
and Austria supporting the idea. Also the President of the EU
Commission, Mr. Barroso, the EU Commissioner Mr. Almunia have expressed
their support, and the British foreign minister Mr. Miliband.

4.    And the Pittsburgh summit has tasked the IMF to prepare for the
next G20 summit a report on how to make the financial industry make /"a
fair and substantial contribution toward paying for any burdens
associated with government interventions to repair the banking system."/



We face an extraordinary window of opportunity to make the Financial
Transaction Tax a reality, by showing that the tax is feasible (even at
a regional level if needed) and by organising sufficient public pressure
from below.



Besides the Financial Transaction Tax, the campaign will also promote
principles how to restructure the banking sector and to control the
shadow banking system including toxic derivatives. It will also develop
joint work and actions around the EU Hedge Funds Directive (titled as EU
Alternative Investment Funds Manager Directive), which will be on the
political agenda of the European Parliament and EU Governments in 2010.



Participants of the conference call upon civil society groups to
increase pressure from below. The crisis is not over. There will be a
period of struggles over the future of the economy and the entire
society in the coming years. The return to Business as usual can still
be prevented.



[1] The European Cross Networking space on the Global Crisis is a
jointly organised space in which European Networks such as the European
Attac Network, Eurodad, Friends of the Earth Europe, the Seattle to
Brussels Network, the European Anti-Poverty Network, TNI, SOMO, CBRM
etc. discuss and coordinate their work on the Global Crisis. The first
meeting of this space took place in January 2009.
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