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of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE): Free Americans Resisting the Fourth Reich on Behalf of All Species. From: "Olivier Hoedeman" Subject: [CEO] G8 Evian: Corporate Welfare or Water for All? Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:55:26 +0200 G8 Evian: Corporate Welfare or Water for All? The EU Water Fund, to be presented at the G8 summit in Evian (June 1- 3), seems more about corporate welfare than helping the world's poorest. The EU plan builds on controversial proposals by former IMF director Michel Camdessus, to use aid money to subsidise the expansion of private water corporations. Confidential documents obtained by CEO show how the European Commission has worked in tandem with Suez and other giant water corporations in developing its international water initiatives. Read CEO's latest water info brief: "Evian: Corporate Welfare or Water for All?": http://www.corporateeurope.org/water/infobrief6.htm "The Evian Challenge - a civil society call for the EU to withdraw its GATS water requests" At the eve of the G8 summit, over 120 groups from Europe and the rest of the world speak out against the EU's attempt to use the WTO services negotiations (GATS) to promote the commercial interests of Europe's private water corporations. The groups call on the EU - and in particular its G8 members: France, Germany, Italy and the UK - to withdraw its GATS water requests immediately. The statement and the list groups supporting can be found at: http://www.gatswatch.org/evianstatement.html http://www.gatswatch.org/eviansigs.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups. CEO publishes a quarterly newsletter - Corporate Europe Observer - featuring reports on the activities of major corporate lobby groups, issue specific overviews, news updates, analysis, reviews and more. The Corporate Europe Observer is currently published in print, e-mail and web (.html and .pdf) versions. For back issues, see: http://www.corporateeurope.org/backlist.html We also regularly produce issue briefings on various issues, such as climate change, trade and investment and in-depth exposÈs of specific lobby groups. For a complete list of past briefings, see: http://www.corporateeurope.org/briefings.html Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) Paulus Potterstraat 20 1071 DA Amsterdam Netherlands tel/fax: +31-20-612-7023 e-mail: ceo@corporateeurope.org http://www.corporateeurope.org http://www.gatswatch.org ________________________________________ CEO mailing list CEO@mailman.corporateeurope.org http://www.corporateeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/ceo _________________________________________________________________ |