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Pat Cox Represents Big Business Only

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  • 01-10-2009 5:54pm
    #1
    rebelmind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭


    Pat Cox challenged to declare interests

    http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/38782
    “Mr Cox is also on the advisory boards of at least three major corporations with a strong interest in influencing EU policy, Microsoft, Pfizer and Michelin. In 2006 he became a senior advisor for lobby consultancy giant APCO and runs his own lobby firm, European Integration Solutions (EIS). APCO includes among its clients seven of the top 10 companies on Fortune’s Global 500.
    “There is a potential conflict of interest between Pat Cox’s support for the Lisbon Treaty and his business and consultancy interests.
    “For too long Irish politics has been damaged by the close proximity of politicians and big business. There is no room for a ‘Galway Races Tent’ type politics in the forthcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum. In order to reassure the public I would urge Pat Cox to declare all his business and consultancy involvements in the interests of transparency and political honesty.”


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    #2
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    Sinn Fein weekly :eek:

    oh dear god why did I remove you from my ignore list,

    back you go so


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    MarkK
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭MarkK


    Why can't he have normal interests like the rest of us, such as taking fishing trips to South America on a fake British Passport?


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    #4
    PopeBuckfastXVI
    Registered Users Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭PopeBuckfastXVI


    If only Microsoft & Pfizer would f*ck off out of Ireland and take their poxy 3700 jobs with them, the b*stards.

    God help us if SF ever get into real Government.


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    geuro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭geuro


    ei.sdraob wrote: »
    Sinn Fein weekly :eek:

    oh dear god why did I remove you from my ignore list,

    back you go so

    Ignoring people you disagree with isn't a very good attitude to bring to the politics forum.
    Not that I'm on the op's side, by the way. I'm not.


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    #6
    rebelmind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭rebelmind


    geuro wrote: »
    Ignoring people you disagree with isn't a very good attitude to bring to the politics forum.

    So what's new? :)
    Any & every time someone dares open a thread the boyos here don't like gets immediately jumped on.
    It's becoming embarrassing at this stage, my European friends are all laughing-out-loud!


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,792 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Read the charter.


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