Nach Ansicht der Kommission müssen die Vertragsparteien des CITES-Übereinkommens der Bekämpfung des illegalen Wildtierhandels höhere Priorität einräumen.
On the one hand, people are talking about giving the European Monetary Fund extensive rights of intervention. On the other hand, the Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Policy, Mr Rehn, is calling for Brussels to be involved in the budgetary planning of the Member States. The European Union obviously wants to use the current crisis to strip the Member States of their financial autonomy, which is one of the last core areas of national sovereignty remaining to them.