The Transatlantic Policy Network seeks EU-style integration
for the European Union and the USA by 2015.
Follow this link to the original source: "Creating
a Transatlantic Common Market"
Even with all of the recent attention given to the North American
Union (NAU) and its deep integration of trade markets in Canada,
Mexico and the USA, it seems another effort at trade integration
is underway. This time the plan is for greater integration of
the European Union and the United States, and much like the
Security and Prosperity Partnership of the NAU, the Transatlantic
Union (TAU) is being quietly created.
According to an exclusive at TheNewAmerican.com, a little known
NGO (non governmental organization) called the Transatlantic
Policy Network, has been working behind the scenes to advance
plans to merge the United States with Europe. The article states,
"Working carefully, if quietly, since the early 1990s,
the organization has moved quickly to gain the agreement of
leaders on both sides of the ocean that further integration
is necessary and desirable. Now, the organization is much closer
to achieving its goals than anyone would suspect."
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A paper published early last year by the organization entitled,
"Completing the Transatlantic Market," states: "It
is time for a complementary, top down approach to transatlantic
cooperation through a joint commitment by the European Union
and the United States to a roadmap for achieving a Transatlantic
Market by 2015 and creation of an overarching framework for
dialogue and action to achieve that goal."
The big difference between the NAU and the TAU is that Congress
has already passed legislation embracing the TAU concept. H.
Res. 390 was passed in late 2003 and states that the "United
States and the European community are aware of their shared
responsibility, not only to further transatlantic security,
but to address other common interests such as environmental
protection, poverty reduction, combating international crime
and promoting human rights, and to work together to meet those
transnational challenges which affect the well-being of all."
To do this, TheNewAmerican.com points out that laws and regulations
would need to be harmonized before any integration could begin.
While Americans were alarmed at this step in the NAU, especially
considering how Mexico would need to be brought up to the US
and Canada’s standards, we need to be similarly alarmed
at the effort to meld the US into a transatlantic common market.
Remember that the EU started as a common market that has now
morphed into EU citizens not being able to vote on a new constitution,
not having local representation (Parliament is forced to regularly
travel to Brussels to approve or disapprove a mountain of legislation
that they have not seen before) and not having individual national
sovereignty for each of the 27 member countries. Rather, all
countries are lumped together under a centralized EU bureaucracy.
The political union of Europe did not appear over night, but
it did evovle from a European common market. Likewise, the U.S.
would not likely undergo a political merger with Europe in the
short term. But the natural progression, as demonstrated by
the experience of Europe since World War II, is for economic
union of the type required for a common market to lead, inexorably,
to political union at some point in the future. This is just
the sort of entangling alliance the Founding Fathers warned
us about. They intended the USA to be independent of Europe.
Present day Americans would do well to heed their wisdom.
