2004-01..06 McCreevy chair of Ecofin

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During the Irish EU presidency, Ireland's finance minister Charlie McCreevy headed the Council of finance ministers ECOFIN.

Chair of Ecofin 2004-01..06

Nothing about software patents or exclusive rights policy per se here, but a bigwig meeting he presided over, with links to some of his speeches:

http://www.eu2004.ie/templates/news.asp?sNavlocator=66&list_id=493

Charlie McCreevy has been the chair of ECOFIN since January 2004 up until June 2004:

http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=839558;s=rollingnews.htm

• McCreevy to chair EcoFin from tomorrow Monday, January 19 14:56:19

  Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy will tomorrow chair the first meeting of the EcoFin council under the Irish presidency of the EU in Brussels.

  The Minister takes over the chair of the EcoFin Council for a period during which the Union will enlarge to include the 10 accession countries, with their formal joining on 1 May 2004. He will chair a total of six meeting of the Council in the presidency, one in each month, over the period to end-June. The meetings will take place in Brussels and Luxembourg, with the exception of the informal meeting in April which will be held in Punchestown, Naas, Co Kildare.

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http://www.finfacts.com/Private/friday/fri_irfl.htm

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• The Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, has been allocated the Internal Markets and Services portfolio in the new European Commission - one of the four powerful economic posts.

(Followed by a lot of unemployment stats, with definition of who's counted as unemployed)