ΤΙ ΜΑΣ ΛΕΕΙ Ο ΣΑΚΚΙΩΤΗΣ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ
Δήμος Αίγινας. Δελτίο Τύπου
Τις τελευταίες ημέρες, επιχειρείται να δημιουργηθεί από “περίεργους” κύκλους, κλίμα αβεβαιότητας, όσον αφορά την υποστήριξη του υποθαλάσσιου αγωγού ύδρευσης. Η Διοίκηση του Δήμου υπηρετώντας το παναιγινήτικο αίτημα για σύνδεση του Νησιού μας με την ΕΥΔΑΠ, μέσω υποθαλάσσιου αγωγού ύδρευσης, καταγγέλλει εκείνους οι οποίοι επιχειρούν να μπλοκάρουν την πρόοδο του Νησιού μας με τα “τερτίπια” τους και προειδοποιεί ότι η υποκατάσταση του τυχαίου από το οργανωμένο, δεν τους απαλλάσσει από τις επιπτώσεις της πρωτόγνωρης “ανησυχίας” τους.
Καλούμε τους επινοητές αυτής της νοσηρής “εκστρατείας” να κατανοήσουν το νέο περιβάλλον και την δυναμική των πραγμάτων, αφού η σημερινή Διοίκηση έχει θέσει έγκαιρα τους κανόνες εκείνους που διασφαλίζουν τους Αναπτυξιακούς στόχους του Δήμου μας. Ο Υποθαλάσσιος αγωγός ύδρευσης αποτελεί για το Δήμο μας, για όλους τους Αιγινήτες, αδιαπραγμάτευτο στόχο. Η διαδικασία ολοκλήρωσης των πρωτοβουλιών μας βρίσκεται στο “δια ταύτα” αφού και οι περιβαλλοντικοί όροι έχουν εγκριθεί από το Περιφερειακό Συμβούλιο και η μελέτη έχει θεωρηθεί από την ΤΥΔΚ, αντίγραφο της οποίας βρίσκεται στον Δήμο μας
ΤΙ ΜΑΣ ΛΕΕΙ Η ΝΕΑ ΕΠΟΧΗ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ
Η ΝΕΑ ΕΠΟΧΗ ερεύνησε και έμαθε γιατί η μελέτη παραμένει εδώ και 11 μήνες «αόρατη». Η αλήθεια που εμείς ανακαλύψαμε είναι ότι η μελέτη αυτή πληρώνεται (κατόπιν συμφωνίας) από τον Δήμο Αίγινας και την Περιφέρεια Αττικής περίπου 50 – 50. Σύμφωνα με τις πληροφορίες που συγκεντρώσαμε, ο Δήμος έχει καταβάλει το μεγαλύτερο μέρος από αυτό που του αναλογεί, η Περιφέρεια Αττικής όμως, δεν έχει βάλει δεκάρα τσακιστή!!!
Η μελέτη όντως βρίσκεται στο τελευταίο στάδιο, είναι ολοκληρωμένη και κατά την εκτίμησή μας, τα τελικά συμπεράσματά της δεν παραδίδονται από το μελετητικό γραφείο μέχρι να εκταμιευθεί κάποιο ποσό.
Ο ΕΝΑΣ ΛΕΕΙ ΟΤΙ Η "ΑΟΡΑΤΗ" ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΤΟΝ ΔΗΜΟ ΕΝΩ ΤΗΝ ΙΔΙΑ ΣΤΙΓΜΗ ΟΙ ΑΛΛΟΙ ΛΕΝΕ ΟΤΙ Η ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΒΡΙΣΚΕΤΑΙ ΣΕ ΜΕΛΕΤΗΤΙΚΟ ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ ΚΑΙ ΔΕΝ ΠΑΡΑΔΙΔΕΤΑΙ ΣΤΟΝ ΔΗΜΟ ΑΝ ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΘΕΙ.
ΕΜΕΙΣ ΠΟΙΟΝ ΨΕΥΤΗ ΝΑ ΠΙΣΤΕΨΟΥΜΕ;
Eurozone Crisis: A Bigger Role for the IMF
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήTuesday 11 October 2011 by Stewart Fleming, Associate Fellow, International Economics
Next month's G20 Summit in Cannes is building up to be just as important a 'crisis management event' for the world economy as the London Summit in April 2009.
Back then, the objective of the summit was to try and halt the downward spiral in global growth triggered by the US sub-prime crisis and the bankruptcy of investment bank Lehman Brothers. This time, the objective is to put in place new initiatives that seek to prevent Europe's sovereign debt crisis from tipping the transatlantic economies into a double dip recession, perhaps triggering a global slump.
At the top of the Cannes agenda, assuming the negotiations now underway are successful, will be a far reaching restructuring of the eurozone's strategy for tackling Europe's sovereign debt crisis. A bigger role for the IMF is on the cards, provided China and other surplus nations agree to provide more cash.
In Frankfurt last week, Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, underscored the bank's determination to retreat from its leading role in Europe's debt crisis, in particular its internally divisive Securities Market Programme.
'We expect governments [not the ECB] to be responsible for restoring financial stability,' in Europe, Trichet said. He added that the ECB did not believe, either, that it should start lending to the eurozone's specialist crisis management agency, the European Financial Stability Facility.
These comments strongly suggest that the EFSF - which is widely seen to be lacking the financial firepower needed to fight financial market pressures on countries like Italy and Spain - should look elsewhere for support. Under discussion now is whether the IMF, already engaged in bail-outs in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, could, in combination with the EFSF, largely replace the ECB.
Since Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, has said that the IMF would also need more firepower than the $400 billion currently at its disposal, this raises the issue, as in 2009, of how the IMF can find a way to tap extra sources of finance. There is speculation that Middle East oil producers and emerging market countries, especially China, which have abundant foreign exchange reserves at their disposal, could be major contributors alongside advanced economies which also have healthy reserves, such as Japan.
In parallel, uncertainty hangs over how to bolster Europe's fragile banking system, including in Eastern Europe. Europe's leaders now accept that the injection of new capital into weak banks is critical, not least because they will have to take a bigger hit from the planned revision of the Greek sovereign debt bail-out now being negotiated.
It remains an open question whether the re-capitalisation of weakened banks can be accomplished by private markets, governments, or the IMF and the EFSF, or by involving other international financial institutions and agencies. That it has to be done is no longer in question. Many of the regions banks are finding it close to impossible to raise - in the private markets for unsecured bonds - the huge sums they urgently need in order to finance their day-to-day lending.
Markets will be keeping a close eye on the G20 finance ministers meeting this weekend to assess progress.
Σε μια ακόμα εκτός … «διπλωματικών ορίων» δήλωση προχώρησε ο Ιταλός πρωθυπουργός Σίλβιο Μπερλουσκόνι, αυτή τη φορά «επιτιθέμενος» αρχικώς κατά του ευρώ (!) και στη συνέχεια κατά των ΜΜΕ.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήΣυγκεκριμένα, ο Καβαλιέρε, ο οποίος βρίσκεται σε εξαιρετικά δεινή θέση μετά την τελευταία Σύνοδο Κορυφής, τις πιέσεις των Ευρωπαίων εταίρων του για άμεσες διαρθρωτικές παρεμβάσεις, αλλά και τις πιέσεις των αγορών που πλέον έχουν βάλει ξεκάθαρα στο στόχαστρό τους την ιταλική οικονομία, προχώρησε το βράδυ του Σαββάτου σε μια παρέμβαση κατά τη διάρκεια εκδήλωσης για το εξωτερικό εμπόριο της Ιταλίας, χαρακτηρίζοντας το ευρώ ως «περίεργο νόμισμα» και ως «κύρια πηγή των δεινών των ευρωπαϊκών οικονομιών»!
Συγκεκριμένα, στην παρέμβασή του στην "Γενική Συνέλευση για το εμπόριο της Ιταλίας με το εξωτερικό", ο Ιταλός πρωθυπουργός δήλωσε: «Το ευρώ δεν έπεισε κανέναν, είναι ένα περίεργο νόμισμα, δεν υπάρχει μια κεντρική τράπεζα ως σημείο αναφοράς, ούτε μια ενωμένη κυβέρνηση για την οικονομία». Για να προσθέσει πως «για τον λόγο αυτό, επειδή είναι ένα πρωτοφανές φαινόμενο, βρίσκεται σε εξέλιξη μια επίθεση της κερδοσκοπίας και είναι προβληματική η διάθεση των ομολόγων που καλύπτουν το δημόσιο χρέος».
Άμεση ήταν η αντίδραση της Αντιπολίτευσης που χαρακτήρισε τις δηλώσεις Μπερλουσκόνι ως ανεύθυνες και επικίνδυνες, ιδίως από την στιγμή που η Ιταλία είναι "υπό στενή ευρωπαϊκή παρακολούθηση". Και κατηγόρησαν τον Καβαλιέρε πως διολισθαίνει σε συνεχείς παραχωρήσεις προς τις ευρωσκεπτικιστικές θέσεις της Λέγκα του Βορρά, σε μια απέλπιδα προσπάθειά του να κρατηθεί στην εξουσία.
Οργίλη ήταν και η ανταπάντηση του Μπερλουσκόνι που προχώρησε στην έκδοση επίσημου ανακοινωθέντος, «αντεπιτιθέμενος» και προσπαθώντας να ανασκευάσει τα όσα είπε. Στην ανακοίνωση τονίζεται πως όσοι τον κατηγορούν κινούνται από μια «υστερόβουλη πολεμική».
« Το Ευρώ είναι η σημαία μας. Όπως πάντα, κάποιοι προσπαθούν να δημιουργήσουν πολεμικές, βασιζόμενοι σε μια φράση μου, την οποία ερμηνεύουν με τρόπο ανακριβή και κακόβουλο»
CANNES, France: Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has called on the G20 for an early and decisive solution to the European debt crisis.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήSpeaking at the G20 summit in Cannes, Mr Lee told world leaders that festering issues will affect the global economy.
These include developments in Greece and the subsequent market volatility reflecting fundamental underlying problems.
He believes there is a risk of recession in the largest segment of the world's economy in the coming year. There is also the real danger of a prolonged stagnation and higher unemployment.
As such, there is a need to consider more measures and Europeans must decide what to do.
Mr Lee said the situation is serious and volatile because the scale of the problem is much bigger than the financial crisis in the United States in 2008.
In the EU, there's a more complex decision-making process and the risk of a global contagion is higher, and can happen suddenly and unpredictably.
On the bright side, Mr Lee noted the sense of optimism among visitors to Asia. While Asia is still growing and its fundamentals are robust, it's far from being de-coupled from Europe and the US because of trade and investments.
Mr Lee said growth is the fundamental part of the cure to tackle banking and debt problems. So countries need to work on a clear plan for growth, and the sustainable way is creating jobs.
There is also a need for structural reforms to raise long-term growth potential.
Mr Lee said emerging economies can contribute to global demand. He hopes to see more investments in infrastructure and raising growth potential by increasing Foreign Direct Investments and increasing competition.
He also hopes to see increased flexibility in exchange rates to help restructure and upgrade economies.
Mr Lee concluded by saying political leadership is critical in solving economic problems and help people understand the difficult period they are in.
He said the solutions may not be popular but there is a need to generate confidence that things are moving in the right direction.
- CNA/ac/de
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has been chosen by G20 leaders to lead an influential body that is poised to overhaul the international banking industry.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήThe appointment to the part-time job, announced Friday morning, will elevate Carney into one of the most important positions in the banking regulatory sphere.
He becomes the head of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), which is being given new powers and responsibilities to rein in the world's biggest banks.
Carney replaces Mario Draghi, governor of the Bank of Italy, as chairman of the FSB.
Carney will still remain Canada's central banker.
"The selection of Mr. Carney as chair of the Financial Stability Board is testament to his skills and to the strength of Canada's financial system," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement Friday. "This is the right appointment at the right time as the world works to strengthen the global financial system and sustain the fragile global economic recovery."
Philipp Hildebrand, chairman of the Swiss National Bank, becomes vice-chairman of the FSB.
"Building on its achievements, we have agreed to reform the FSB to improve its capacity to co-ordinate and monitor our financial regulation agenda," the G20 said in a statement.
"This reform includes giving it legal personality and greater financial autonomy."
The impetus for greater control of the world's banking sector came in the wake of the 2008 meltdown of some of the world's biggest financial institutions - particularly in the United States and Great Britain.
G20 leaders, particularly Harper, are now intent on ensuring they move forward with reforms of the financial sector.
In an interview last week with Postmedia News, Harper said it was crucial to make progress in this area.
"Obviously, there are some in the financial sector who don't necessarily like the proposals, and there are some legitimate complaints and in Canada we pay attention to what the financial sector says," said Harper.
"But that said, one of the things we know is the financial sector can't just write its own rules. The crash of 2008 made very clear that there must be credible regulatory systems on the financial sector or it can lead us in a position where we don't want to be. That is being done, that has to be done."
As they opened their second day of discussions at the summit in this seaside resort on Friday, G20 leaders turned their attention to financial sector reform.
According to Canadian officials, Draghi, the outgoing FSB chairman, updated the leaders on progress made on reforms, particularly in the establishment of banking standards.
According to officials, Harper "welcomed the progress" and "implored" his fellow leaders to implement financial sector standards under established timelines.
"Prime Minister Harper also assured all G20 leaders that governor Carney will do an excellent job in his new role," said Andrew MacDougall, Harper's associate director of communications.
Carney became governor of the Bank of Canada in February 2008. His term in that job is seven years.
He came to the job with an impressive resume: An education at Harvard and Oxford; more than a dozen years at Goldman Sachs offices throughout the world; and finally, deputy governor at the Bank of Canada before being tapped for the top job.
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Leaders at the G-20 summit endorsed a new tax on banks to be levied depending on the amount they hold in assets, Reuters reported late Friday. Officially called a "surcharge," the graded fee will start at 1 percent of risk-weighted assets, rising progressively to up to 2.5 percent for those with the biggest balance sheet.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήThe tax would be phased in over three years from 2016. The FSB did not specify which tax bracket each bank would fall into.
The list of banks released by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) includes 17 European and eight U.S. lenders, as well as four Asian banks.
The U.S. banks are Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, State Street and Wells Fargo.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a bank holding company, that engages in investment banking, securities services, investment management and other financial services primarily with institutional clients. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered at 85 Broad Street, in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City. The firm has offices in all major international financial centers, and provides mergers and acquisitions advice, underwriting services, asset management, and securities services to its clients, which include corporations, governments and high net worth individuals around the world. The firm also engages in proprietary trading and private equity deals. It is a primary dealer in the United States Treasury security market.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήFormer Goldman Sachs employees Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson served as United States Secretary of the Treasury after leaving the firm; Rubin under President Clinton and Paulson under George W. Bush.