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A planned ‘last minute’ meeting?
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According to today’s Irish Indo (story not online):
“FF Parliamentary Party will have to wait until tomorrow for a briefing on next week’s budget after Finance Minister Brian Lenihan had to make an unscheduled dash to Brussels.”
Unscheduled?
THE Budget will be held on Wednesday, December 9, informed sources said last night.
The Government is still declining to state the date officially, although it is understood the Cabinet formally fixed the day at its meeting yesterday.
A spokesman for the Government refused to disclose the date at a briefing of political correspondents last night, after weeks of Taoiseach Brian Cowen keeping the opposition parties at bay on the issue.
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Last night, it emerged that Finance Minister Brian Lenihan was committed to Euro-group meetings of EU finance ministers in Brussels on December 1 and 2. Those engagements mean the earliest the Budget can be presented is the following Wednesday, December 9.
Hmm.
We now have GUBU Economics to match the previous FF generation’s GUBU politics.
Nice
This is the meeting. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aqh4Tk65yrQ4
The excessive deficit countries are also on the agenda. That includes Ireland.
http://www.se2009.eu/en/meetings_news/2009/11/30/spotlight_on_financial_supervision
Cian,
“Unscheduled dash to Brussels”? Looks more to me like the Indo got it wrong. Such a description has more mystery and drama associated with it than a plain old Ecofin gathering of stuffy finance ministers and makes for more exciting copy.