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    No need Enda was flexing his French all day. Though questions from reporters were translated.
    Much laughter/confusion when Enda was asked questions in Irish

    Sean Flemming caught reading the paper there clearly oblivious to today's comments from Germany.
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    Postcards from the inside:


    The Gov believe that Germany has been very supportive all along. This is not understood by the media, especially RTE, whose reports on Friday caused resentment . The Irish people, therefore, do not understand it either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greengoddess View Post
    Postcards from the inside:


    The Gov believe that Germany has been very supportive all along. This is not understood by the media, especially RTE, whose reports on Friday caused resentment . The Irish people, therefore, do not understand it either.
    So its shoot the messenger time again?
    RTE reports on Friday 'caused resentment'
    Why?
    Were they supposed to not report what Merkel said or were they supposed to spin it that she wasn't really saying what she did say?

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    Von Rompuy:

    Everything that can be done, will be done

    Really really slowly.

    These people are completely out of touch and don't seem to understand the political and economic impossibility of all this. Oh, and really none of the austerity is being imposed by the EU. Its really a default from " maladminintrstion" .
    Portuguese MEP very cross earlier in a speech.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. FIVE View Post
    Who'd have thought that once there was a revolution in this country?
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaddyJoe View Post
    So its shoot the messenger time again?
    RTE reports on Friday 'caused resentment'
    Why?
    Were they supposed to not report what Merkel said or were they supposed to spin it that she wasn't really saying what she did say?
    Clearly they should wait for the Bunny to tell them what to report.

    Labour's take is clearly the correct take.
    "The land Coillte Teo is now selling for development was given to them by the State in 1988 to ensure that our woodlands were run commercially, not to enable them to sell the family silver to service bank loans".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Greengoddess View Post
    Von Rompuy:

    Everything that can be done, will be done

    Really really slowly.

    These people are completely out of touch and don't seem to understand the political and economic impossibility of all this. Oh, and really none of the austerity is being imposed by the EU. Its really a default from " maladminintrstion" .
    Portuguese MEP very cross earlier in a speech.
    Would you have their name ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by C. Flower View Post
    Would you have their name ?
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    Schaeuble coming to Dublin next week

    http://www.businesspost.ie/#!story/H...8-44d432528055

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    Schaeuble coming to Dublin next week

    http://www.businesspost.ie/#!story/H...8-44d432528055
    Was that arranged long ago or out of blue due to last week events?

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    Quote Originally Posted by disability student View Post
    Was that arranged long ago or out of blue due to last week events?
    Suspect more worries about the period of the Irish presidency. The word is that that the EU multi annual budget will not be completed in Novemeber due to the antics of Cameron. Leaving us with a monumental headache to negotiate it. They would be worried about this.

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    Thought the budget was always going to be worked out on our watch?

    Is Schaeuble coming to deliver our own budget from the Bundestag or collect it to bring back?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. FIVE View Post
    Thought the budget was always going to be worked out on our watch?

    Is Schaeuble coming to deliver our own budget from the Bundestag or collect it to bring back?
    RTE is reporting that the Sprouts are after another 9 bn in budget increases and I'd imagine Cammy is throwing his toys outta the pram as a result. They say they need it to cover "essential financial commitments"... Obviously the sprouts are keen enough to foist austerity on others, but not too willing to cut their own budget. Typical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by morticia View Post
    RTE is reporting that the Sprouts are after another 9 bn in budget increases and I'd imagine Cammy is throwing his toys outta the pram as a result. They say they need it to cover "essential financial commitments"... Obviously the sprouts are keen enough to foist austerity on others, but not too willing to cut their own budget. Typical.
    On a slight tangent. Good line from Colette Browne today

    The figures, in case Ms Merkel needs reminding, are monstrous. Earlier this month, a "grim" report on the decrepit state of the EU’s 145 nuclear reactors estimated that upgrading the archaic facilities would cost up to €25bn. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Brussels.

    Scarifying as that figure is, the impoverished Irish people have already pumped over twice that amount into our two nuclear reactors, Anglo and AIB, and yet they continue to belch their radioactivity into the economy.

    Has everybody in Europe lost their minds? In what kind of alternate universe is it deemed credible for just 4m citizens to incinerate over €50bn in two toxic banks while the prospect of spending half that amount to prevent a nuclear winter sweeping through the continent is greeted with dismayed scepticism?
    http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion...on-211744.html

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    Has everybody in Europe lost their minds? In what kind of alternate universe is it deemed credible for just 4m citizens to incinerate over €50bn in two toxic banks while the prospect of spending half that amount to prevent a nuclear winter sweeping through the continent is greeted with dismayed scepticism?
    The entirety of the last 12 or so years have been some sort of deranged surreal nightmare really. At it just keeps getting more and more illogical and bizarre. There is something profoundly insane and dangerous festering in the heads of the Western political class.

    Nothing about anything political or economics-related has made any actual sense at all since the 90s. What is really going on here?

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