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11/02/2010
FG In Paris To Meet OECD
A delegation from Opposition party Fine Gael has flown to Paris to meet representatives from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) officials to discuss economic policy.
The party will debate the ongoing economic recovery and will have access to an "unprecedented level of research" to guide the party's economic plan for the next five years, according to Fine Gael.
Among the other topics that will be discussed will be employment policy, banking reform, tax reform and public sector reform.
Deputy leader Richard Bruton, deputy finance spokesman Kieran O’Donnell and enterprise spokesman Leo Varadkar will accompany leader Enda Kenny in Paris today and tomorrow.
The team will meet, among others, Pier-Carlo Padoan, deputy secretary general, and John Evans, secretary general with the Trade Union Advisory Board.
Today, the OECD, a major research department for the European Union, released a study saying it was easier to climb the social ladder and earn more than one’s parents in the Nordic countries, Australia and Canada than in France, Italy, Britain and the United States.
The study found social mobility between generations tended to be lower in more unequal societies. It said redistributive tax and benefit policies aimed at providing income support or access to education for disadvantaged families may reduce the handicaps of a poorer or less well educated background.
(DW/BMcC)
The party will debate the ongoing economic recovery and will have access to an "unprecedented level of research" to guide the party's economic plan for the next five years, according to Fine Gael.
Among the other topics that will be discussed will be employment policy, banking reform, tax reform and public sector reform.
Deputy leader Richard Bruton, deputy finance spokesman Kieran O’Donnell and enterprise spokesman Leo Varadkar will accompany leader Enda Kenny in Paris today and tomorrow.
The team will meet, among others, Pier-Carlo Padoan, deputy secretary general, and John Evans, secretary general with the Trade Union Advisory Board.
Today, the OECD, a major research department for the European Union, released a study saying it was easier to climb the social ladder and earn more than one’s parents in the Nordic countries, Australia and Canada than in France, Italy, Britain and the United States.
The study found social mobility between generations tended to be lower in more unequal societies. It said redistributive tax and benefit policies aimed at providing income support or access to education for disadvantaged families may reduce the handicaps of a poorer or less well educated background.
(DW/BMcC)
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