Talking about us. Bertie & ZP.

international | eu | news report Thursday April 28, 2005 12:07 by céad mile failte

your supreme rascal and our supreme rascal.

jayzhus they're very talented.

But they're not bosom buddies.
Each of them wants something.

Bertie wants €U funding for agriculture and science = biotech.
ZP wants €U funding for regional development in the south.

in several minutes, the supreme little rascal of the Irish republic will enter the La Moncloa the residence of Zapatero in Madrid.

they'll talk about the financing of the EU
2007 - 2013
they'll talk about us.
they'll talk about communal and bilateral business
they'll talk about us.
they'll talk about the EU constitution and preparations for its French, Dutch and Irish referenda.
they'll talk about us.

Ahern has just visited the memorial to the victims of M11 in Madrid "the forest of the absent". He will be remembering , his presence at the spire with many young people of Spain on March 12th 2004.
He might be considering that many of those young people live in Ireland in precarity. He might consider that so many of the victims were migrants to Spain.

Both Ahern and ZP accept that the benefits their states take from the EU must be reduced in line with the greater need of the new member states.

There will be a report in the comments on any statements, and whether Bertie said "howya!" to us.

I'll also try and find out whether Mrs ZP (a piano teacher) will play Bertie some Beethoven or Mozart or whether she'll stick with the de Falla or if indeed they'll just listen to some piped muzak, or U2 on the CD player and surround sound.

http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/zapatero_ahern_ue_272330.htm
http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/ahern_rodriguez_zapatero_ue_madrid_272582.htm

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=141267776&p=y4yz6848z
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0428/spain.html