LEAP'S THREE STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS (open brief gepubliceerd in maart 2009 naar aanleiding van de G20 in London)
Citaat:
1. The key to solving the crisis lies in creating a new international reserve currency!
The first recommendation is a very simple idea: reform the international monetary system inherited post-wwii and create a new international reserve currency. The US Dollar and economy are no longer capable of supporting the current global economic, financial and monetary order. As long as this strategic problem is not directly addressed and solved, the crisis will grow. Indeed it is at the heart of the crises of derivative financial products, banks, energy prices... and of their consequences in terms of mass unemployment and collapsing living standards. It is therefore of vital importance that this issue should be the main subject of the G20 summit, and that the first steps towards a solution are initiated. In fact, the solution to this problem is well-known, it is about creating an international reserve
currency (which could be called the « Global ») based on a basket of currencies corresponding to the world’s largest economies, i.e. US dollar, Euro, Yen, Yuan, Khaleeji (common currency of oil-producing Gulf states, to be launched in January 2010), Ruble, Real..., managed by a « World Monetary Institute » whose Board will reflect the respective weight of the economies whose currencies comprise the « Global ». You must ask the imf and concerned central banks to prepare this plan for June 2009, with an implementation date of January 1st, 2010. This is the only way for you to regain some control over currently unwinding events, and this is the only way for you to bring about shared global management, based on a shared currency located at the centre of economic and financial activity. According to LEAP/E2020, if this alternative to the currently collapsing system has not been initiated by this summer 2009, proving that there is another solution than the « every man for himself » approach, today’s international system will not survive this summer.
If some of the G20 states think that it is better to maintain the privileges related to the « status quo » as long as possible, they should meditate the fact that, if today they can still significantly influence the future shape of this new global monetary system, once the phase of global geopolitical dislocation has started they will lose any capacity to do so.
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Franck Biancheri Director of studies of LEAP/E2020,
www.leap2020.eu
President of Newropeans,
www.newropeans.eu
Zo dramatisch als LEAP voorspelt is het tot toe niet geworden. Interessant is dat de 'globale' munt gezien wordt als dé oplossing voor de crisis. Indien er geen werk gemaakt wordt van dit idee is het een kwestie van wachten op de volgende crisis die wel eens erger zou kunnen zijn omwille van het niet handelen op dit moment. 'Zou' zei ik.
Ook interesant is dat het idee van een nieuwe internationale reservemunt geen exclusief idee van China en Rusland is. De zaken zo voorstellen lijkt op de zaken willen boycotten.