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Topic: Charlie McCreevy

	Mr. Charlie McCreevy \| GCMT
		Born in Sallins, County Kildare, McCreevy was educated locally at Naas CBS and at Gormanstown Franciscan College.
		McCreevy once referred to the Irish health system as a "fl hole" and reacted to the initial Irish rejection of the Nice Treaty as "good for democracy".
		His son, Charlie McCreevy, Jr, declined the opportunity to be the Fianna Fáil candidate in the resulting by-election and the seat was won by the Independent candidate, Catherine Murphy.
	www.gcmt2006.com /mccreevy (850 words)

	ireland.com / Focus / Budget 2005
		As Charlie McCreevy leaves the Department of Finance, Dan O'Brien suggests that spurious debate about how 'right-wing' he was as Minister has obscured his many real shortcomings.
		Mr McCreevy did little to make the intellectual case against harmonising corporation tax in Europe; he damaged Ireland by deploying pseudo-patriotic bluster against EU criticism of his 2001 budget; he bent rules to help his horsey pals in Punchestown; and he filleted the Freedom of Information Act.
		But for all his failings in office, Charlie McCreevy is a decent man and is certainly not the odiously uncaring mean spirit some of his critics claim.
	www.ireland.com /focus/budget2005/mccreevyprofile.htm (796 words)

	Charlie McCreevy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Sallins, County Kildare, McCreevy was educated locally at Naas CBS and at Gormanston Franciscan College.
		In 1992, Albert Reynolds became Taoiseach and McCreevy was appointed Minister for Social Welfare.
		In 2004, McCreevy was selected by the Government to replace David Byrne as Ireland's European Commissioner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlie_McCreevy (994 words)

	PRESS BRIEFING WITH CHARLIE MCCREEVY EU COMMISSIONER FOR INTERNAL MARKET AND SERVICES
		MCCREEVY: Well, in the sense that we – the objective of having globalized international accounting standards is the objective still we’re fighting for and continuing, so as that work progresses it will lead to that, hopefully, end outcome at some period of time.
		MCCREEVY: Well, Chairman Donaldson of the FCC would naturally be concerned, from the perspective of the United States, that there is uniformity of the application of the IFRS standards across the 25 member states.
		MCCREEVY: No, I think what CESR will bringing forward, their own proposal in this regard and working out their own methodologies as to how this will be done, in order to satisfy also in the commission that it is being applied consistently among the 25 member states.
	www.eurunion.org /news/speeches/2005/0504021cm.htm (3449 words)

	CFO Europe
		McCreevy, in his formal answers to members of the European Parliament and in an interview with CFO Europe, talked of his intention to follow up on proposals put forward by his predecessor.
		Charlie McCreevy, 55, was the son of a farmer in County Kildare’s horse country, west of Dublin.
		McCreevy’s introduction to the bureaucrats and politicians in Brussels hasn’t been altogether auspicious, and his brand of plain speaking has not always impressed.
	www.cfoeurope.com /displayStory.cfm/3350463 (1556 words)

	Charlie McCreevy, Patents and the Irish plot to take over the EU - Indymedia Ireland
		Whether or not the constitution gets passed the institutions of the EU are in a state of flux as the 10 new countries have their impact.
		Charlie McCreevy, after a minor delay, looks like he will be appointed Internal Market Commissioner around the 25th November.
		So it is quite likely that early in the new year commissioner McCreevy will be forced to choose between the European software developers and small enterprises and the US multinationals which he has done so much to accommodate as Irish Finance Minister.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=67391 (2073 words)

	RTE News - Shop around to avoid euro rip off - McCreevy
		Charlie McCreevy was reacting to a complaint by the Consumers' Association that prices have risen dramatically since 1 January.
		However, Mr McCreevy said that he was advising consumers to shop around and make their own mind up on retailers who are ripping them off.
		Mr McCreevy rejected suggestions that a price freeze before the euro changeover would have avoided the problem that has now arisen.
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/0117/euro.html (232 words)

	Various findings about Charlie McCreevy from the Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The finance minister, Charlie McCreevy, caused astonishment in Gothenburg by describing Ireland's rejection of the treaty as a "healthy development".
		McCreevy calm on Commission challenge January 14, 2004 Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy has said the EU Commission's decision to mount a challenge to a decision taken by EU finance ministers in November may be a good thing.
		Mr McCreevy told RTE radio the challenge may provide legal certainty for the future, but he also warned that it could throw Commission powers in many other areas into doubt.
	wiki.ffii.org /CharlieMcCreevyEtcEn (2981 words)

	Accountancy Ireland : Charlie McCreevy on Auditor Liability and other issues for the Profession
		However Mr McCreevy, who qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1973 and is a paid up member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, plans to use his new position as European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services to make up for lost time.
		Last year when Mr McCreevy first made the trip to Brussels to become a Commissioner, the 8th Company Law Directive was in its later stages and winding its way through the European Parliament.
		However between them Mr McCreevy and Mr Doorn did manage to get the subject added to the revised proposal that has gone through the European Parliament, where it states that the Commission has been asked to do a study of this particular area.
	www.accountancyireland.ie /dsp_articles.cfm/goto/1158/page/Charlie_McCreevy_on_Auditor_Liability_and_other_issues_for_the_Profession.htm (1916 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Commissioner McCreevy was born in 1949 and studied Commerce at University College Dublin before qualifying as a chartered accountant.
		Charlie McCreevy’s period in office as Minister for Finance coincided with the rapid growth of the Irish economy, the so-called “Celtic Tiger” era.
		As Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy has championed the cause of the Internal Market and has been working consistently towards the aim of a fully functioning and efficient Internal Market.
	www.delpol.pl /download/hotnews/Ch.McCreevyCVEN.doc (369 words)

	RTE Business - McCreevy was Taoiseach's 'only choice'
		Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said the Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, who has been nominated as Ireland's next EU commissioner, was his only candidate for the post.
		Speaking this afternoon, Mr McCreevy said he had expressed interest in the job as EU Commissioner in talks with the Taoiseach last September.
		1 News: Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy says he changed his mind about his interest in an EC post based on personal reasons, and says he hopes to secure a significant portfolio in the new commission
	www.rte.ie /business/2004/0721/mccreevy.html (360 words)

	Blather: Charlie McCreevy, Globalisation and the Rise of the Machines
		Charlie McCreevy, Globalisation and the Rise of the Machines
		Charlie McCreevy is the Irish Minister for Finance.
		Due to pressures from the international markets, McCreevy was forced to look for cheap labour.
	www.blather.net /blather/2003/08/charlie_mccreevy_globalisation.html (690 words)

	Will Charlie McCreevy's Luck Survive A Tough Budget?
		As Irish Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy prepares for his next budget, with an election around the corner, he faces policy challenges far removed from the relatively easy ride he had for his previous four budgets, when the Irish economy was booming and Irish journalists' eyes were smiling on him.
		The Irish Times says however that Mr McCreevy is lucky, and never more so because his political opponents are grey, anonymous figures who won't know how to take advantage of the economy's problems to pound the minister when he produces an inevitably disappointing budget.
		Mr McCreevy was able to do something that previous holders of his office were only able to dream about: he could actually make policy rather than just fight fires.
	www.investorsoffshore.com /asp/story/storyinv.asp?storyname=6043 (837 words)

	Accounting Standards: European Union Commissioner Mccreevy and US SEC Chairman Cox Affirm Commitment to Elimination of ...
		In April last year Commissioner McCreevy and then-SEC Chairman Donaldson discussed the “roadmap” developed by SEC staff which sets out steps required to eliminate the need for companies using IFRS to reconcile to US GAAP possibly as soon as 2007, but no later than 2009.
		In particular, Commissioner McCreevy noted that the approval of the financial statements by the regulatory authority in the home jurisdiction should be included in any decisions taken by the regulatory authorities in other markets.
		Commissioner McCreevy added that, inside the European Union, work to ensure that the recently adopted IFRS are applied and interpreted faithfully and consistently is well underway.
	www.eurunion.org /news/press/2006/20060011.htm (572 words)

	A Framework for the 21st Century: The New Global Regulatory Agenda in Financial Markets [Rush Transcript; Federal News ...
		Charlie McCreevy has a unique combination of Irish and great political charm and savvy, together with substantive capabilities. And that combination is going to be necessary over the next months to make this directive work. He faces some early tests in the European Parliament, almost even as we speak.
		MCCREEVY: Well, for those that wouldn’t be following the activity of the European Union that closely, can I just say—and if the—what it is about—this directive has generated an awful amount of political heat in the European Union. We published this directive in January 2004.
		MCCREEVY: Well, Basel II was an international agreement, and everyone committed themselves to introducing in their legislation then the effective changes.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9858/framework_for_the_21st_century.html (2312 words)

	McCreevy wants one law for EU patents - Wiredfire Forums
		EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy could be courting more controversy by backing plans for a single European patent law which would be outside the EU system.
		The EU has been seeking a single community patent law, under which a patent filed in one member state would be valid in all, for 30 years.
		Mr McCreevy gave the strongest signal yet a frustrated commission might now back the EPLA idea.
	wiredfire.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=50715 (369 words)

	McCreevy Bows Out
		Love him or hate him, Charlie McCreevy was always there on the Irish political scene and it seemed like he always would be.
		Fianna F?il held their position as the party of the ordinary man in complacently high regard and now that this long perpetuated myth has been shattered by the existence of an alternative in Sinn F?in, Bertie Ahern is anxious to turn things around.
		In removing the likes of McCreevy and possibly Brennan, An Taoiseach, is working on, in my view, a quite naive assumption, more of a hope that this will overturn the ground lost to Sinn F?in.
	www.tuppenceworth.ie /Politics/mccreevy.html (642 words)

	The Epoch Times \| EU Executive Clamps Down on Gambling Restrictions
		EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy was given the green light by the other 24 commissioners to begin infringement proceedings against Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Hungary.
		McCreevy's decision confronts EU member states that operate lucrative state-owned or sheltered sports betting services.
		Many EU countries have state-owned betting monopolies that can hamper foreign firms from entering their domestic markets and the proposal to open up the industry has met with opposition from member states led by Italy, Germany and Sweden.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-4-4/40058.html (416 words)

	Commissioner Charlie McCreevy and Software Patents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Charlie McCreevy was born in 1949, worked as a chartered accountant before 1977 when he was first elected to the Irish Parliament.
		2005-03-08 McCreevy links software patent opposition to "anti-Americanism and anti-big business protests": "I've said all along is that what the original purpose of the directive was, was to codify the existing situation."
		2004-07-24 De Rossa MEP (PES, IE) attacks McCreevy's political record: "one of the Ministers for Finance who sought to remove the Parliament's democratic control over the Union's budget", "a right winger who believes in incentives - tax breaks and hand outs for the wealthy and a kick in 'arse' for the poor"
	wiki.ffii.org /CharlieMcCreevyEn (201 words)

	Charlie McCreevy News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Without such action, Euro-pean commissioner for internal markets Charlie McCreevy warned the ambitious project risked missing a January 2008 deadline to begin operating.
		EU internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy said he was studying the industry, which is dominated by US firms Visa and...
		Turkey's strongest advocates were Peter Mandelson of the UK and Charlie McCreevy of Ireland.
	www.einnews.com /ireland/newsfeed-charlie-mccreevy (639 words)

	EU: Remarks by the President of Ecofin, Mr. Charlie McCreevy, at the post–ECOFIN Press Briefing - ...
		The Minister for Finance, Mr Charlie McCreevy, chaired a meeting of the Council of Economics and Finance Ministers of the European Union (ECOFIN Council) in Brussels today (9 March).
		Ecofin urged the Member States and the acceding countries to continue supporting the Growth Initiative in their budgetary planning, and called on the Commission to report through the Ecofin Council to the December 2004 European Council on further progress.
		McCreevy said that the updated Stability Programmes from Belgium, Germany, Spain and Portugal had also been discussed.
	www.europa-web.de /europa/03euinf/10counc/ecofrema.htm (833 words)

	EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy on EU Services Directive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The following is a transcript of comments on the EU Services Directive, made by Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, to the European Parliament today.
		Given the wide-ranging issues raised I do not have time to deal with all these points, but on software patents I clearly indicated that the ball is in the court of the European Parliament.
		I hope to be able to come up with the best solution possible, based on the broadest consensus, because that is what we and Europe need.
	www.finfacts.com /irelandbusinessnews/publish/printer_1000786.shtml (1188 words)

	EU's McCreevy seeks progress on services law under Austrian presidency - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BRUSSELS (AFX) - EU internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy said he seeks progress towards a final accord on legislation opening up the European services market during the current EU presidency, held by Austria until the end of June.
		McCreevy was speaking as the European Commission presented a revised copy of the services directive.
		McCreevy reminded that the revised text will be considered by EU governments at a competitiveness council at the end of April in Graz.
	www.forbes.com /work/feeds/afx/2006/04/04/afx2645622.html (484 words)

	Q&A: EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		Charlie McGreevy says Europe must dump the status quo, or doom future generations.
		March 20, 2006 issue - Protectionism is undermining Europe's future, says EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, and Brussels needs to stop it.
		Last week McCreevy ordered the French government to explain its role in the merger of state-owned Gaz de France and the private utility Suez (which was widely seen as a move to block an Italian bid for Suez).
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11787710/site/newsweek (570 words)

	IEA - News: Commissioner Charlie McCreevy \| Commission Budget
		Charlie McCreevy, EU Commissioner responsible for the Internal Market, addressed the Institute's members on the social and economic future of Europe.
		On the issue of reform of social models he said that "the problem is not that countries have failed to undertake any reform, rather that such reform as has taken place has been incomplete and patchy".
		McCreevy went on to say that the "debate on the Servies Directive has revealed a tendency on the part of some to hanker after protectionist barriers not only on the Union's external borders but internally as well.
	www.iiea.com /newsx.php?news_id=48 (509 words)

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		Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy has got to be the most pompous, incapable little bureaucrat Ireland has thrown up (and I do mean thrown up) in the nearly two decades I've lived here.
		The Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy, said yesterday that while the proposed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act might be very contentious for people in the media "it is not such a contentious Bill for people in the Government".
		Do recall, dear reader, that this is a man who heads off to the horse races in Britain rather than support his own bill through debate in the Irish houses of parliament [the Dail] -- a neutering of Ireland's Freedom of Information Act, which is considered model legislation internationally.
	radio.weblogs.com /0103966/2003/03/14.html (1711 words)

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