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Updated 19.59pm
“IRELAND WILL SHOW solidarity with Greece as I think all EU countries should,” said Minister for Marine, Food and Agriculture Simon Coveney.
Speaking on RTÉ’s The Week in Politics the minister said he understands Greece is not asking for debt forgiveness, but is looking to renegotiate how it manages its debt.
Renegotiations
He said there are ways for Greece to renegotiate. “We can be constructive in helping Greece.”
Ireland changed the rules when we renegotiated.
Conveney said there is a question of fairness and equality in what deals are struck with other nations.
He said any deal negotiated with Greece should be applied to Ireland, if possible, and if it gets the country a “better deal”.
The minister said Ireland does need to be aware if something is renegotiated, and if it can apply to Ireland.
Change in attitude to debt conference
Independent TD Finian McGrath questioned the change of attitude of the Minister for Finance Michael Noonan this week on holding a debt conference. This week he said one was not necessary.
Kostas Chrysogonas, from the Syriza Party who is on an official visit to Dublin, says a Eurozone debt conference is necessary for the EU to remain economically stable.
Greece has said it is preparing a plan for managing the transition to a new debt deal.
Fianna Fáil’s Micheal McGrath said what the government should be doing now is putting in an application to the ESM for retroactive bank recapitalisation for Ireland.
“We still have an outstanding issue of bank debt.”
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Piece of shit coward. Sits in his car, shoots from his car, does a legger in his car and when he was low on fuel he pulls into a petrol station.
Happens every day in parts of America, and you don’t hear of it because the majority of them are black
Supernova – are you saying black people commit the most shootings or reports aren’t newsworthy because it’s a picture we’ve seen thousands of times?
Most of the victims are black actually but does the race matter? A crime is a crime is a crime.
This is being portrayed as a mad man shooting but it seems like more of a gangland style deal.
Drivebys happen a lot in the US. There were 733 in 2014 alone with 154 deaths.
Yeah but I’m saying if the individual was black I don’t think it would have been a big a news story I’m afraid. If a white man gets killed all hell breaks loose.
Hang on, are you saying when a black man gets killed all hell *doesn’t* break loose?
Have you been watching the news coming out of the states for the last year or so?
I dunno how this has gone international? what about all the drive bys that happen in Compton?
If it was in America this happened you would have quadruple the comments on this story.
…and blaming the NRA.
You’d have quadruple the comments if it was the US because it happens every other week in the US, often happens to kids, and it’s once in a blue moon in other countries. The last one in Germany was 2010, we’ve had a dozen HUGE ones in the US since then.
Perfectly fair game to blame the NRA since they are the second most powerful lobby group in the US, and oppose even moderate gun regulations like preventing civilians from owning military grade weapons, and preventing people from the terrorist watch list or the mentally ill buying guns. You’ll notice we, who have one of the top 5 most conservative gun regs in the world, have never had a mass shooting, and the UK has not had one since the 70s when it adopted very similar rules.
Saadi news but why is it being reported here? We have shootings all the time between rival gangs, does that make news in Germany or is there something more to this?
hopefully it was Enda and Angela
Idiot of the highest order!
Tis an ill wind that blows through Bad Windsheim this morning.
when will the killing end. we need to get rid of guns altogether.
No, don’t be ridiculous. Then Billy the Kid and the ‘Hole in the Ground Gang’, not to mention the most evil German of all time, Kaiser Wilhelm II, will have a free reign.
his getaway car low on fuel. not very Mr Brooks was he.
So so sad. This senseless violence needs to stop.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was quite a decent guy. Just a bit egotistical I suppose. Britain vilified him in the Great War for propaganda purposes, that’s all.
@Ashley Brown. He also must have thought of other’s welfare as well,, for he brought in the first European pension and welfare programs,albeit at the behest of Chancellor Otto Von Bismark, without which we might still be fighting for them even now.
—”Social programs in Germany began in the 1880s.
“In November 1881, at the direction of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm I, issued a decree stating, “those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state.”
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