07 September 2011

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I am writing a SG report on FTT and on further projects we have as EFFR. This should be a report a little less elaborate than the one we have written for AGA, btw overlapping with the AGM of Finance Watch in June, but still... There has been some remarkable developments over the second half of August both in the EU and on the part of IMF. At least FAT is getting less and less credit - to achieve that had become part of the mission on the way. Further we have now MiFID to deal with, not to name the CRD IV and CRAs. We have some MEPs on our side, but real intelligence is to find in the DGs, to lobby the right, to place the amendments on the right time in the right place.

Strengthened through new members like eg4health and ACV-CSC next to AK, ÖGB, DGB, ETUC, EPSU, FEPS, PES, FGTB-ABVV, CNCD, etc we will launch into the new trimester with full energy. For now, I am just missing one bit: where GMB comes from, and what it stands for. The rest will flow...

ps: To all this pleasure please add the game of "verlan" our friends from La France enjoy playing: Guess what UE, FMI, ONU and OTAN stand for! Yes, and TTF. If having a hard time, just read them the other way around!