Fourthreichian Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros muses it's a short walk from the Maison Rouge in Strasbourg to the Eldorado of Prostitutes(EP), aka European Parliament, in Strasbourg. Fourth Reich originates on the Red House Report, a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a strong Fourth Reich.
The three-page, closely typed report, marked Secret, copied by British spies and sent to the US Secretary of State, detailed how the industrialists were to work with the Nazi Party to rebuild Germany's economy by sending money through Switzerland. They would set up a network of secret front companies abroad. They would wait until conditions were right. And then they would take over Europe.
Venitis muses that Lisbon Treaty is the climax of the Red House Report! After eight years of popular rejection, political cajoling, and endless hand-wringing, Fourth Reich ratified the Lisbon Treaty without a shred of democratic legitimacy or public support. The Lisbon Treaty was born from the twice rejected European Constitution, which was voted down in public referenda held in France and Holland in 2005.
The Lisbon Treaty itself was rejected in a referendum held in Ireland in 2008, until Dublin was forced into holding a second referendum in October 2009. Ireland's Fourth Reich Commissar, Charlie McCreevy stated that if the Lisbon Treaty had been put to a public vote across the Fourth Reich, it would have been rejected by 95 percent of Fourthreichians.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out Eurokleptocracy, gigaregulation, Antitrust Armageddon, and gigataxation, especially VAT, are the real causes of the European financial meltdown. Democracy in Fourth Reich(EU) has deteriorated to kleptocracy, and Fourthreichians, aka Europeans, are mad as hell. Eurokleptocracy thrives on waste, fraud, and abuse(WFA), and Fourthreichians who don't know what they're talking about.
European Union(EU), aka Fourth Reich, an illegal unvoted confederation, condones the European Commission(EC), aka Eldorado of Corruption, the European Parliament(EP), aka Eldorado of Prostitutes, and Graecokleptocrats, the most corrupt politicians on Earth. No Graecokleptocrat has ever gone to jail! Venitis asserts that impunity of Graecokleptocrats is the most freakish justice in the world!
The Lisbon Treaty gives many new powers to the Eldorado of Prostitutes, a very corrupt organization. This means the Eldorado of Prostitutes will be many times more corrupt. That's why Diamandouros is determined to go after all corrupt MEPs. MEPs get myriad kickbacks from pullpeddlers, have two pension funds, and are in cahoots with mafiosi to milk the Fourth Reich. Diamandouros has myriad concerns about the Eldorado of Prostitutes!
Diamandouros received a PhD(1972)from Columbia University. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Athens in 1988, he held teaching and research appointments at the State University of New York and Columbia University respectively(1973-78). He was Program Director for Western Europe and the Near and Middle East at the Social Science Research Council, New York. From 1988 until 1991, he was the Director of the Greek Institute for International and Strategic Studies, a policy-oriented research organisation established with joint funding from the Ford and MacArthur Foundations. From 1998 to 2003, he was the first National Ombudsman of Greece. He has also been Professor of comparative politics at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Athens since 1993. Diamandouros is, as of 1 April 2003, the European Ombudsman.
Diamandouros is concerned about the Eldorado of Prostitutes' recruitment of Auxiliary Conference Interpreters(ACIs) who are over 65 years of age. Eldorado of Prostitutes accepted the Ombudsman's draft recommendation that it should adopt identical procedures to recruit ACIs over and under 65 years of age. In closing the case, the Ombudsman made a further remark encouraging Eldorado of Prostitutes to establish clear criteria for comparative assessment of ACIs before the procedure begins and to document the procedure accordingly.
In response, Eldorado of Prostitutes informed Diamandouros that a more structured procedure for monitoring the performance of interpreters had been introduced. The aim is to ensure that all interpreters are assessed on the basis of the same criteria and that all assessment reports are comparable. In Eldorado of Prostitutes' view, the fact that all quality control procedures are now based on a single form, applicable to all interpreters and all language units, guarantees the comparability of all assessment reports on the basis of uniform criteria. At the end of the procedure, the interpreter concerned has the right to lodge an appeal with the Director.
Diamandouros criticised Eldorado of Prostitutes for failing to convene the Invalidity Committee as soon as possible in the circumstances of the complainant's case. In response, Eldorado of Prostitutes took the view that it had fulfilled its statutory obligations towards the official concerned, but undertook to adopt a less strict approach should it be confronted with a similar case in the future.
Diamandouros criticised Eldorado of Prostitutes' failure to inform an unsuccessful tenderer of the possibilities of appeal against the rejection of the tender. In response, Eldorado of Prostitutes informed the Ombudsman that its standard model documents have been changed and now inform tenderers of the ways in which they may lodge an appeal.
Diamandouros criticised Eldorado of Prostitutes' failure to reply to the complainant's request for information. The Ombudsman also suggested that it would have been courteous to have informed the complainant, as soon as reasonably possible, that her contract would not be extended and that future letters inviting candidates in a selection procedure to a medical examination should clearly state that the invitation does not constitute an offer of employment.
In response to the criticism, Eldorado of Prostitutes stated that the competent service had adopted measures to ensure that e-mails concerning the administrative situation of contract staff receive a reply within a reasonable deadline. Eldorado of Prostitutes also accepted the Ombudsman's suggestions and announced that in future contracts staff will be informed at least one month before the expiry of their contract whether Eldorado of Prostitutes intends to renew it or not and that candidates will be informed that an invitation to a medical examination does not under any circumstances constitute an offer of employment.
Diamandouros suggested that the Eldorado of Prostitutes should review the general question of which kinds of document should be included in the personal file of officials. Eldorado of Prostitutes responded that, rather than broadening the categories of documents that should be placed into personal files, its services should ensure the effectiveness of data protection mechanisms; in particular the right of access to one's own data for which Article 13 of the data protection Regulation provides.
Diamandouros criticised the treatment given to the complainant, a former assistant of an MEP, after the latter decided to terminate the complainant's contract. A member of Eldorado of Prostitutes' Security Unit interrupted the complainant during her lunch in Eldorado of Prostitutes' canteen, and, in the presence of other diners and without allowing her to finish her meal, asked her immediately to follow him to the Security Unit, where she had to return her accreditation card and then leave Eldorado of Prostitutes' premises. Diamandouros considered that Eldorado of Prostitutes' treatment of the complainant involved instances of maladministration consisting of a violation of her fundamental right to be heard and a violation of the principle of proportionality. Eldorado of Prostitutes refused Diamandouros's suggestion that it could offer the complainant apologies and compensation.
In response to the critical remark, Eldorado of Prostitutes insisted that its actions were not in any way untoward and that there was no reason for it to offer the complainant an apology or compensation. Diamandouros notes that Eldorado of Prostitutes rejected both a proposal for a friendly solution and a draft recommendation. Diamandouros profoundly regrets Eldorado of Prostitutes' failure to acknowledge the maladministration in this case and to offer the complainant suitable redress.
Diamandouros criticised Eldorado of Prostitutes' failure to conduct a proper comparative assessment of a complainant's merits with those of his colleagues, to fulfil his legitimate expectations as regards a letter sent to him by Eldorado of Prostitutes' Secretary-General and to send the complainant a correctly made proposal for the award of merit points.
In response, Eldorado of Prostitutes accepted that, when awarding merit points, the appointing authority is obliged to compare the professional merits of the staff concerned. According to Eldorado of Prostitutes it could not be excluded, however, that in particular circumstances such comparative assessment is difficult to carry out. Eldorado of Prostitutes insisted that, in the present case, a comparative assessment of the complainant's merits had been carried out and that it had complied with the applicable internal rules on the award of merit points. As regards the second and third aspects of the critical remark, Eldorado of Prostitutes accepted that it would have been appropriate to address the proposal on points to the complainant. Eldorado of Prostitutes maintained, however, that what it called a minor procedural error had not prevented the complainant from exercising his rights of defence.
Diamandouros notes that Eldorado of Prostitutes appears to insist on the legality of its approach, according to which the complainant would have to prove that his merits were superior to those of his colleagues who received a third point, instead of proving only comparable merits. Diamandouros points out that the Civil Service Tribunal annulled Eldorado of Prostitutes' decisions on the award of merit points to the complainant and held that, by arguing that the complainant could only obtain a third merit point if his merits were superior to those of his colleagues who had received a third merit point, Eldorado of Prostitutes had failed to respect the principle of equal treatment. Diamandouros recalls that his inquiry which relates to the award of merit points to the complainant is on-going. In the framework of that inquiry, Eldorado of Prostitutes informed Diamandouros that it remains convinced of the legality of its approach. Diamandouros regrets the European Parliament's unwillingness to apply the logic of the above-mentioned judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal.
Diamandouros is concerned about the Eldorado of Prostitutes' refusal to grant the complainant's request for access to data detailing the allowances granted to certain Members of the Eldorado of Prostitutes. Diamandouros regrets that the Eldorado of Prostitutes has sought to justify its refusal fully to accept the draft recommendation to remedy the maladministration in this case by relying on a legal interpretation that weakens the principle of transparency and which has been rejected by the Court of First Instance in the Bavarian Lager case.
In response, Parliament informed Diamandouros that it has adopted a series of major reforms concerning its system of allowances for Members. In Eldorado of Prostitutes' view, these amount to a substantial increase in transparency and largely address the spirit of Diamandouros's remarks. The changes include:
a) A new Statute for Members, applicable from the 2009 elections, with a common salary, coupled with a new system for travel expenses, based directly on reimbursement of ticket prices;
b) A major change to the system for employment of assistants after the elections, with those working in Eldorado of Prostitutes' main places of work (Strasbourg, Brussels, and Luxembourg) employed under the Fourth Reich Staff Regulations and qualified paying agents handling the pay and social security arrangements for most of the assistance requirements of Members of the Eldorado of Prostitutes in their Member States;
c) A phasing out of the additional voluntary pension scheme from 2009;
d) Publication on the EP website of up to date information on the expenses and allowances for Members, including the sums available under each category.
Diamandouros notes that two cases against the Eldorado of Prostitutes concerning access to documents are currently pending before the Court of First Instance and that the Commission's appeal against the judgment of that Court in the Bavarian Lager case is pending before the Court of Justice. Diamandouros hopes the Eldorado of Prostitutes will apply the case-law of the Community Courts.
Diamandouros is concerned about the Eldorado of Prostitutes' refusal to grant a complainant's request for access to the list of the names of the members of the Additional Pension Scheme for MEPs. In its reply to Diamandouros's Draft Recommendation concerning the related issue of access to data detailing the allowances granted to MEPs, Eldorado of Prostitutes stated that the situation should be analysed again in the light of the experience of the entry into force, in 2009, of the Statute for Members and that new implementing rules would come into force in this field. Taking into account this statement, and that, under Article 27 of the Statute for Members, the voluntary pension scheme in question will continue to exist, Diamandouros encourages Eldorado of Prostitutes to make a commitment to reconsider the matter, in the above context.
Eldorado of Prostitutes informed Diamandouros that the question at issue is currently before the Court of First Instance and that Eldorado of Prostitutes will reconsider the matter in the light of the final judgment of the Court of Justice. Diamandouros hopes the Eldorado of Prostitutes will apply the case-law of the Community Courts.
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