Oath Of Disclosure: Citizens Initiative Unwanted
To the European Commission's rejection of a European Citizens Initiative for founding a European Public Bank member of the Party Executive Board of DIE LINKE and one of its initiators, Heinz Bierbaum, declares:
The general idea of the citiziens initiative should be the founding of a non-speculating European Public Bank, which instead invests in public services, and finances an economy in service of a social-ecological transformation. The reasons for rejection are spurious and a political oath of disclosure. The European treaties allegedly do not allow the founding of such an insitution by means of a citizens initiative. That is not acceptable. We definitely need alternatives and a public debate on the financing of our future without speculation and gambling.