TRANSITIONS
Jim Kirwan
Business overdraft facilities are being withdrawn at a "significantly" higher rate than this time last year, the leading high streets banks have admitted to the Government. Where facilities remain in place, banks are scaling back the amounts they are prepared to extend.
Cash-in-hand culture costs more than £2 billion
| These three monarchist idiots want to expand the rape of our Mother Earth, and of the women and indigenous and poor, all on behest of the Pyramid of Rothschild ... World rape deal within grasp in 'next few days': British PM
LONDON (AFP) - A world trade deal is within reach in the "next few days," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday. Speaking after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Brown warned the world had reached the "11th hour" and urged countries to "work together ... to send a signal against protectionism." "We are convinced that a world trade deal, that is within our grasps in the next few days, is something that all countries in the world must now push with great priority," he said. "Protectionism is something that we must both avoid and fight against in the course of the next few months. "We believe that any resort to [cultural and environmental] protectionism would delay any [gangster] recovery and would be to repeat the mistakes of the past." In Geneva trade sources said key negotiating problems remained and there was as yet no date set for a World Trade Organization ministerial meeting before the end of the year. WTO members are struggling to conclude a global deal under the seven-year-old Doha round of talks that would reduce barriers to trade ikn goods and services.
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