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Taoiseach to discuss ‘rebuilding’ Europe at Davos

Enda Kenny’s first World Economic Forum session is to focus on rethinking the roles of the European Commission and Council.

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TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY is to join world leaders gathering at Davos in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum.

The main theme of this year’s event, which opens today and closes on Sunday, is “The Great Transformation Shaping New Models”.

Kenny is expected to take part in a series of discussions on political and economic issues and he will participate in an interactive plenary session tomorrow on ‘Rebuilding Europe’.

According to the Davos programme, the session will focus on rethinking the roles of the European Commission and Council while considering how Europe will be shaped in the future by its structural and political challenges.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso will also be on the panel for the session, as will Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

Enda Kenny will also participate in ‘an information gathering of world leaders’ session at Davos on Friday which will look at issues ranging from job creation and social stability to inclusive governance in the digital age.

Other sessions at Davos will focus on global energy issues, neuroscience, the implications of global population growth, the importance of satellites, and how to rebuild post-earthquake Haiti. A debate on the future of capitalism is also planned.

Events at the World Economic Forum can be watched online via a stream on the official site.

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Comments (25 Comments)

  • Enda Kenny in the same sentence that mentions ‘world leaders’? Surely some mistake…

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    • He is merely a teacher, not a world leader. How this person even passed a teaching examination bemuses me. He seems of very low intellect, most of the time he appears to be just concentrating on remembering what his advisers have told him to say in front of cameras. Remember, this traitor is just bowing to his European friends at the sake of your childrens futures because he wants the coveted presidents seat of the EPP (European Peoples Party)

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    • I think that should reed Bleeders

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  • John 25/01/12 #

    This from a man who can’t even rebuild his own country? What a clown.

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  • So who is this Enda Penny chap or what was his name again?

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  • Imaginative but will all of europe fit in davos

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  • Ah, so he’s going skiing then, lol.

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  • I hope he packed his best begging bowl.

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  • What qualifies ol Enda to help rebuild Europe? He can’t rebuild his own country – if he can remember that it’s Ireland, not Germany.

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  • Inda’s off on his travels once more. Promising to fight Ireland’s case on the international stage with vigour and tenacity.
    Oh God. . . . . . here comes that sinking feeling again!!

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  • Enda is some poster man for Europe he really wants his legacy to be European leader the job Bertie was promised in order to get Lisbon 2 through. The Europe jobs matters more than his country’s sovereignty which was sold two years ago for a few billion euro. What next maybe sell the rest of our natural resources on the cheap. Water privatisation, sure maybe privatise the country and get a corporation to run it. Or did that happen already Ireland Ltd = bankrupt so Ireland incorporated has been set up in its place.

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  • He’d be better off here trying to regain Ireland her sovereignty instead of sipping tea with those leeches. .

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  • Is there a session devoted to ‘Topping up government advisors pay when everyone else thinks it a very bad idea’? He could speak for hours on that topic.

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  • It’s time to play the music ,it’s time to light the lights

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  • WTF? Didn’t the do-gooders build this sh*t that we are living in now? Who can trust the parasitical class to do any “re-building”?

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  • “The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, and their chains, and their hooks, and their pincers! Away with their artificial methods! Away with their social laboratories, their governmental whims, their centralization, their tariffs, their universities, their State religions, their inflationary or monopolizing banks, their limitations, their restrictions, their moralizations, and their equalization by taxation! And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun — reject all systems, and try of liberty — liberty, which is an act of faith in God and in His work”
    ― Frédéric Bastiat

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  • Have you seen Enda 2.0 http://www.endakenny.com/? Excellent site!

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  • lol, a new Europe, same shoddy foundations from the look of it.

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  • Now… I swore i would never reply to all this idiot chat but you guys have got my blood boiling…. I am sick to death of the moaning whinging irish…. its all the banks fault, its all the Germans fault, Its all Enda’s fault…. get over it… In fairness to Enda Kenny, i can tell he is trying and to be honest i actually agree with most of the decision the current goverment has made…including household charge etc. I think he is qualified to help rebuild Europe and Ireland for that matter… he certainly did it with his own party. And as for the ‘he is only a teacher’ comments!!! Just ignornance. For me…He is a modest, honest good man…simple life… There will be no fancy shirts etc. i am sure in Enda’s closet.
    Why not shut up for 5 minutes and give your sence a chance…. that goes to you all…. and the idiot media we have in Ireland as well…stop whinging and go out and be the change you wish to see… work harder, try harder, improve Ireland… help dont moan… either that or p**S off to Canada or somewhere…

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    • Harsh but accurate….

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    • Lied to electorate pure and simple along with Labour party after telling us things would change.
      Here is small selection.
      Special advisor cap on pay
      nepotism
      Hospital bed closures
      A and E services downgrade
      Barrack closures
      Third level fees
      Not a cent more to banks
      Quangos still employ same numbers although less of them.
      Unemployment up since Feb
      nearly 80000 people were on trollies at some stage last year up 18 per cent
      Educational cuts to schools
      No senior bond holder debt reduction as promised
      I think thats enough to start with.
      The sad thing is if he had been open about a lot of this i would still have voted F.G but what i am seeing now is contunity F F

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  • The man couldn’t rebuild a sandcastle…the measure of the guy will be judged by his actions…not by his empty worthless words.

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  • AHHH i think i get it now…

    “RE-building”.. eh?
    so first we need to tear it all down of course, stands to reason, right?
    well, we are nearly there it seems…

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