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7/16/11

Anglo-Saxon conservative forces take aim at EU and EMU

The conservative US non-profit organization "e21: Economic Policies for the 21st Century", which is teamed up with the "Manhattan Institute for Policy Research",  "the Shadow Open Market Committee" and the "ObamaCare Watch" is on the war path against Europe. On Friday it put out another bundle of negative news reports on Europe's economy from US news sources and the British eurosceptic Financial Times.

Among the members of its board of Directors are: William Kristol editor of the Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard. Widely recognized as one of the nation's leading political analysts and commentators, Mr. Kristol regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel. Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. Prior to that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan.

Peter Wehner is the present Managing Director of the Washington DC office of e21 .  Mr. Wehner was the former Deputy Assistant of President Bush and served as Director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. He is  is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.  Mr. Wehner also served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations prior to joining the Bush White House. Prior to joining the Bush Jr. Administration, Wehner was executive director for policy for Empower America, a conservative public-policy organization.

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