In the images below, courtesy of
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and Attac Austria, basic insight is
provided into the backgrounds of some of the prospective members of the
new Juncker Commission, which will be in office from November 2014 to
2019. The information reveals serious conflicts of interest.
More in-depth evidence of these conflicts
are provided with regard to the wholly unsuitable corporate backgrounds
of candidates Jonathan Hills and Arias Canate on the CEO website [2,3].
Can it be right that an ex-corporate
lobbyist is put in charge of regulating the financial services sector or
that an ex-petroleum industry insider becomes responsible for climate
action?
The previous Barosso Commission sold out
ordinary people's interests to powerful corporations. The Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) [4] could well be the ultimate
outcome of this.
With a new Commission being stacked with
former corporate lobbyists and people from the world of big business,
Europeans have every right to be sceptical and feel that the Juncker
Commission will continue to serve a corporate agenda.
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