{"id":2108,"date":"2010-11-23T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T12:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/press-release-joe-higgins-walks-out-of-talks-over-rehns-insistence-on-the-confidentiality-of-discussion\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T12:16:49","slug":"press-release-joe-higgins-walks-out-of-talks-over-rehns-insistence-on-the-confidentiality-of-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/press-release-joe-higgins-walks-out-of-talks-over-rehns-insistence-on-the-confidentiality-of-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"[press release] Joe Higgins walks out of talks over Rehn&#8217;s insistence on the confidentiality of discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>Strasbourg, Tuesday 23 November 2010 <br \/>Press Statement: Joe Higgins MEP (Socialist Party) <\/p>\n<p \/> \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Commissioner Olli Rehn&#8217;s meeting with Irish MEPs <br \/>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joe Higgins walks out of talks over Rehn&#8217;s insistence on the <br \/>confidentiality of discussion <\/p>\n<p \/> Socialist Party MEP, Joe Higgins, refused to participate in a meeting <br \/>between Irish MEPs and the Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner <br \/>Olli Rehn. MEP Higgins left the meeting after Mr Rehn stated he would <br \/>only share essential information if all the MEPs agreed not to <br \/>disclose the contents. <\/p>\n<p \/> Joe Higgins said after leaving the meeting <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;After a week in which the Irish people were persistently misled and <br \/>lied to it was outrageous to suggest that elected representatives <br \/>could not share with those who elected them what Commissioner Rehn had <br \/>to say <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;As far as I am concerned commissioner Rehn and the IMF are acting as <br \/>agents for the predatory international banks and the speculators who <br \/>gambled billions in private deals with property developers and bankers <br \/>in Ireland and now want the Irish working class to pay for these <br \/>gambles which went wrong. <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;I was therefore not going to participate in any secret discussion <br \/>behind the backs of working people and the unemployed. <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;It is essential that there is a major mobilisation of people power <br \/>and worker power to stop the disastrous austerity programme beginning <br \/>next Saturday at the National Protest organised by ICTU.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strasbourg, Tuesday 23 November 2010 Press Statement: Joe Higgins MEP (Socialist Party) \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Commissioner Olli Rehn&#8217;s meeting with Irish MEPs \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joe Higgins walks out of talks over Rehn&#8217;s insistence on the confidentiality of discussion Socialist Party MEP, Joe Higgins, refused to participate in a meeting between Irish MEPs and the Economic and Monetary Affairs&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/press-release-joe-higgins-walks-out-of-talks-over-rehns-insistence-on-the-confidentiality-of-discussion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[press release] Joe Higgins walks out of talks over Rehn&#8217;s insistence on the confidentiality of discussion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}