June 14, 2008 (EMF) – The European Commissioner for development, Louis MICHEL said he will provide 674 million euro to Zenawi’s regime through its 10th Development Fund, day after HRW condemns the EU to accomplice Meles Zenawi’s crime against Humanity. The news is a shock to the EU parliament and some member states, source close to EMF said. According to our sources, Louis MICHEL will be under fire for doing contrary to the parliament’s resolutions. “We don’t allow tax payers money to be used for atrocities,” an MPE said. All Ethiopians are also urged to write a protest letter to Louis MICHEL (Louis.Michel@ec.europa.eu), denouncing this irresponsible act.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:03 am
It seems this time we, the oppositions are failing fair and square and woyane is winning.
It is really sad to see the oppositions tear each other while woyane is destroying our country
June 14th, 2008 at 11:10 am
ታያላችሁ,እራቱን የሚተባበክ ዉስሃ(ዶግ) ዪመስላል መለስ
June 14th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
you guys are really sad case…..if you are so brave go to the main land(Ethiopia) and fight it out, but not you EMFand Co. you rather distorte info. from the safe heaven where you live at; you are preaching money not to be given to the poor for developement, you preach people not to take Ethiopian Airline, etc….but so far you have not even acheived a single thing, the party you were preaching to be in power have gone to abyess and the one you were hoping to be destoryed is a lot more stronger, and bringing a major change to that country….so plz stop crying day in day out….and if you are so brave and want to bring a change go there and be part of it.
June 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
why michel in Addis?
your highness Meles pls do not go to war with Esayas even if he has already with Dijibuti?
Thank you for the somalia,and leave when sufficent peacekeeping arrives?’how much is sufficent? god and Meles knew it not abdullahi Yusuf!
Please be open and responsible for the mal.niutri?drought?famine?crisis?food shortage?…125000 oh no 75000?..5.3 mil..oh no 4.6 mil…?saftynet excluded?included ‘exagerated? but we dont know before,sir?
Pls. postpone the anti NGO law?procla?order?
pls. dont make law to be abide by the law? what’s wrong with you? you are so nervous and agrassive this days…we are always with you…as far as you keep the horn silent.we are sick and tired of you! I will tell Esayas also the same thing b/c you are all the same since 1991!
Esayas ,true autoritarian and you false dimocratic?
sorry to be rude but Aboytawi dimo. allows me to speak free b/n us not in public…ha…?
June 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Melaku
The ETHIOPIAN oposition has not teared it is only Enj Hailu Shawel
who has left the Folks that is all.
June 14th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Totaw Melse looks a street robbery. I guess he wants to take money from Michel pocket kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
June 14th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
The ferenj criminals are out there to help prolong the misery of the African people!
June 15th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Wonderful Job, G7
When the old dog EPRPs failed to organize a public meeting of more than 10 people, Ginbot 7 managed to organize and mobilized the People.
I am wondering by the EPRPs. Did they consider themselves elected by the Ethiopian people? when? where?
The Ethiopian in the diaspora, being most of them educated, knows whom to support and with whom to work with.
አሁን አሁን እየገረመኝ የመጣው ነገር የኢህፓና የኢንጅነር ሀይሉ ሰዎች ብርሃኑ ወያኔ ነው አንዳርጋቸው ወያኔ ነው ይሉናል:: እነዚሕ ኢህአፓዎች እኮ ሌላው ሰው ምንም የማያውቅ ነው ያደረጉት:: ይህ እራሱ ሌላውን ኢትዮጵያዊ እየተሳደቡ መሆኑን ያውቁታል:: ይህ ማለት እኮ እኛ/ኢህአፓዎች/ እናውቃለን እናንተ ግን ምንም ስለ ኢትዮጵያ ፖለቲካ አታውቁም ማለት ነው::
ይገርማል:: ይህን ያክል ኢህአፓዎች ፖለቲካ የሚያው ቢሆንማ ኢስከ አሁን ከ40 ዓመት በላይ ያለምንም ውጤት በውጭ አገር አይንከራተቱም ነበር::
እናም ለነዚህ ኢህአፓዎች መንገር የምፈልገው ነገር የምፈልገው ነገር የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ የሚበጀውንና ለሀገሩ የሚታገለውን ያውቃል:: ምክንያቱም ሁሉን ነገር የሚመለከተው በቅንነትና በንጽህ ልብ ነው:: እንዳናንተ/ኢህአፓዎች/ በተንኮልና በድብቅ ለስልጣን አይሮጥምና::
June 15th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Grumpy old people venting. Like in past 30 or more years
its another meeting, fund-raising, declaration,
insurgency movement. Same old failed politics.
Its real business for them, but impossible to understand
why other people don’t get it.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am
aid for the dictator gavernment is commited crime on the ethiopian people by it self,so look back your policy.
June 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Europeans and Americans are encouraging the DEDEB from DEDEBIT to do more damage and destroy Ethiopia once and for all. their message is simple the more you kill the more you destabilize the region the reward is bigger and fatter. and the thug from ADAWA is more than happy with the deal . but what he fails to grasp right now is, when the Ethiopian people remove him from power by any means , the very people who are feeding him to commit more crime will start calling him a dictator and will be start talking about freezing his and his cronies assets . coz for them MELES cant be better than any other African dictators . their policy is simple .IT IS USE AND THROW THE AFRICAN BABOONS LIKE A CONDOM .actually condom is better can be recycled . to what purpose would you recycle LEGESSE ZENAWI for ??
June 15th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
This is not surprising as Europeans and US want their puppet regime of Meles to fight their dirty war in the Horn of Africa. Thus they are supposed to provide the necessary fund - otherwise they have to send their own people to fight in Somalia and elsewhere. The sum is a price for a mercenary Agazee miliia Meles has sent to kill ordinary Somalis under the guise of fighting Muslim Fundamentalism. Europeans and US have no morality when it comes to financing a terrorist regime like Meles as long as he is there to protect their interest.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:27 am
it is the right time now to act against the inhuman acts of Louis Michel & the likes, so stop wasting time and voice ur sound for the voiceless
June 17th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Hi All;
To those who live in the 12th planet!
Ethiopia is doing far better day by day and year by year. Those the Dergist and the Amhara chauvisits are always tarnishing what the government is doing here.
It is amazing, one creates a story the other refers to the same and they create a web of lies and fabrications so that they think they will defame and finally overtook the government position.
To many of yours surprise, HOW CAN A GROUP(S) NOT TOLERANT OF HIS/HER COMRADES ATTITUDE/BEHAVIOUR CAN BE LEGIBLE TO HOLD A POSTION TO RULE 80 MILLIONS!
YOU CANN’T RULE A COUNTRY BY FALSIFYING AND BLAMING!
LOOK FOR YOURSELVES AND CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING OTHER THAN TRYING TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY!!!
I know, by any measure, the Amhara chauvists are not sympathetic to the Ogadeni people rather they are using the ticket to get some holes around the international community….
EPRDF in the other side, though it has weakness and short commings, are doing better than these illiterate so called Phds. Forget your Phds and come to your senses!!
Ethiopia needs practical people not orators!!!!
Organize yourself as a strong opposition and try to shape this country’s feature rather than tarnishing its image.
Million fragments are not affordable by the current situation of Ethiopia whether in the opposition or the ruling.
We have poverty, illiteracy, uncivilizedness, etc… in front of us to tackle with ….
Don’t mastrubate rather act!
Almaz from Addis.
Almaz from Addis!
June 17th, 2008 at 10:14 am
It is amazing how low the woyanie and its cadres could go !look at one of the woyanie’s cadre Almaz, Almaz what the hell is wrong with you did not you learn a little bit of respect and manners ? well monkey see and monkey do is in the woyanies world any way . it should not be surprised to read from your stupid comment about mas***** after all we heard your brainless leader saying he was not invading Somalia with condoms .ohhhhhhhh Goddddddd save Ethiopia from those low lifers . Ethiopia deserves better.
June 17th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
We have to keep fighting in any way we can from anywhere we are against the vicious tyrant Meles who is using food as a weapon to commit genocide against humaniaty.
We should depend only on ourselves to get rid of this disloyal government that is killing people in a land of plenty. When the government is a subservient and disloyal to the country he is leading, it is difficult to find a solid support from whites.
Had Meles been a loyal to his country government, by now not only he has been overthrown from power but there would have been another hit song of famine like “ We are the world” singing all over the world.
To find this huge number of people facing death due to starvation with all the millions and millions of aid and money given to Meles’s administration the whole would should have been outraged. However, it is not a surprise to find white accomplices like Louis MICHEL to be on Meles’s side when Meles is committing genocide against non-Tigrean Ethiopians.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Swim or Sink Together - Meles Tells Europe
Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa) NEWS
17 June 2008
By Tamrat G. Giorgis
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told European trade negotiators that their continent’s destiny is joined at the “hip” to Africa, thus it has the choice to either sink or swim together.
Large numbers of delegates from the European Union (EU), including Development Commissioner Louis Michel, were here for three days last week (June 11-13, 2008) to meet their counterparts from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Addis Abeba hosted both the 33rd ACP-EU Joint Council and the 87th ACP Council meetings, both held at the UNECA, and opened by the Prime Minister and Sufian Ahmed, minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED), respectively.
Meles reminded Europe that Africa is a source of illegal migration; he argued that what goes wrong in Africa affects Europe considerably. In addition, he stressed that the EU economic zone is a significant source of grants and the largest trading partner for Africa, with the former providing non-reciprocal preferential trade deals to the ACP nations, particularly to least developed countries (LDCs).
Following an agreement both parties signed on development cooperation in Cotonou, Benin, in 2000, they launched negotiations, two years later, to reach into a comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). This agreement is required to be not only reciprocal of the deals with one another, but also compatible to multilateral trade agreements on the World Trade Organization (WTO) platform. This would compel poor countries from the ACP region to give up their revenue sources from custom duties, open their markets so that they integrate their economies to the European economy in goods, services, capital and economic policies.
Nevertheless, negotiating cutting edge trade deals was not found to be as blasé as signing cooperation agreements: A deadline set by the WTO for December 2007 has long passed, with only the Caribbean region signing a comprehensive EPA with the EU. Another 18 countries have initialed an interim agreement on EPA, while several others, including Ethiopia, have refused to commit themselves to the deadline.
While the progress made so far with respect to the EPA negotiations may be compatible with the WTO rules, they are not well-suited to our development needs,” Meles told trade negotiators last week.
And there are vocal voices in ACP, such as that of Minister Sufian’s, who protest that in EPA, they are required to fulfill commitments that are not included in WTO deals: Competition, e-commerce, public procurement, investment, and services.
“Special and deferential treatments provided to LDCs and land-locked countries under WTO rules are not available under EPAs,” Sufian told the delegates last week.
If he sounded bitter, he may have had reason to be, as his country will only benefit a fraction (644 million euros) of the 24 billion euros earmarked to support 78 ACP countries included in the 10th European Development Fund (EDF). The fund will be disbursed from 2008 to 2013.
However, at the centre of the negotiations is the cost of liberalization and tariff adjustment on their respective economies. ACP countries would lose 359 million dollar per year due to EPA agreement, a study conducted by International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) revealed.
“The support needed for domestic producers to adjust to increased competition from imports and new opportunities for exports as a result of duty free and quota free access . . . often require significant investment in both physical and human resources,” the study recommends.
Trade negotiators from ACP countries want to have longer transition period to adjust their economies and want EU to foot the bill. If agreed, ACP countries are required under EPA to liberalize their trade by 80pc within 15 years. Sufian argued that ACPs need a sufficient transition.
In the absence of financial and technical support and assurance to cover the adjustment costs that would inevitably follow trade liberalization, it was unlikely that ACP countries, which have yet to sign EPAs, would do so in the next few months, Minister Sufian warned.
EU trade negotiators, however, are not pleased with this demand. They told ACP countries last week there would be no additional funding to deal with EPA related adjustment costs.
Prime Minister Meles urge delegates of the joint council to negotiate in “a spirit of understanding of each other’s interests and a spirit of accommodation”.
There seems to be little room for mutual accommodation for EU is firm in its position that EPA is the only platform it desires to engage with ACP countries. It seems its trade policymakers are losing patience.
“If you want to remain poor, just be against the EPAs,” Louis Michel, who met Meles last week, told delegates of a joint ACP-EU parliamentary assembly held last March, in Slovenia.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Meles discusses with EU Commissioner
Addis Ababa, June 12, 2008 (Addis Ababa) - Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi received and held talks on Thursday with Commissioner of the European Union (EU), Louis Michel at the office of the premier.
The two parties discuss on Ethio-EU cooperation as well as on socio-economic and political developments here in Ethiopia. They also confer on situations in the Horn of Africa, senior government official, who attended the discussion, told ENA.
Commissioner commends Ethiopia’s contribution toward ensuring peace and stability in the sub-region.
The EU is keen to strengthen the existing cooperation with Ethiopia to a higher level, according to the commissioner, he said, EU will provide 674 million euro to Ethiopia through its 10th Development Fund.
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http://www.ena.gov.et/EnglishNews/2008/Jun/12Jun08/60203.htm
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