They say you can choose your friends, as the Queen’s visit last week and President Obama’s today show, but what about our friends in Europe? Yes they’ve given us a much needed bailout but many say the interest rate charged is simply too much for the country to bear.
There is a diplomatic row over that at the moment and our cherished rate of corporation tax is the centre of the battle for our new paymasters President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel. Pat Cox and Declan Ganley will debate what the Government should do and we’ll be hearing from people for whom this financial crisis is all too real.
