GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME..OR ELSE
So it`s General Election time in Ireland today and the favourite to become Taoiseach is Enda Kenny, Leader of Fine Gael and pictured here with the EU Commission`s head honcho, Portuguese Juan Manuel Barroso.
In his first press conference of the campaign, Kenny said he could gain favourable changes for the Republic from the IMF and Ireland's European partners, saying he would go back to Brussels to renegotiate the IMF-ECB (European Central Bank) deal to bail out the Irish economy, although this would focus mainly on the interest payments Ireland has to pay to international bondholders.
Now I confess to only a partial knowledge of Irish politics, but Kenny sounds like he might not cause Barroso and his chums too much bother, in which case I imagine that, if the good voters of the Irish Republic elect someone else, then the EU will simply ask them to keep voting until Kenny gets the job.
Well, it won`t be the first time.
In his first press conference of the campaign, Kenny said he could gain favourable changes for the Republic from the IMF and Ireland's European partners, saying he would go back to Brussels to renegotiate the IMF-ECB (European Central Bank) deal to bail out the Irish economy, although this would focus mainly on the interest payments Ireland has to pay to international bondholders.
Now I confess to only a partial knowledge of Irish politics, but Kenny sounds like he might not cause Barroso and his chums too much bother, in which case I imagine that, if the good voters of the Irish Republic elect someone else, then the EU will simply ask them to keep voting until Kenny gets the job.
Well, it won`t be the first time.
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