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“We have got a monetary federation. We need quasi-budget federation as well …
We need quasi-federation of the budget.”

- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, The Guardian, 1-12-2010

“I deeply respect our Irish friends’ independence … but they cannot continue to say ‘come and help us’ while keeping a tax on company profits that is half [that [...]

A public enquiry is needed into how the Irish people have been turned into indentured debtors of the EU, the European Central Bank and the IMF.
We need to know this if we are ever to recover.  We need to know who was ultimately responsible for the situation we now find ourselves in, trapped inside the [...]

Two similar articles from newspapers on the political Right and Left forwarded for your information by Anthony Coughlan:
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Tuesday 24.2.09
ECB faces mutiny from national bank governors as recession deepens
- The European Central Bank is capitulating.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
For months the ECB held sternly to the high ground of orthodoxy as the US, Japanese, British, Canadian, [...]