welcome back to spotlight i'm al green of and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is christine lagarde the french finance minister. of your own countries continue to feel the effects of the global credit crime reeses debt crisis was the start of the demeanor with fact in the euro zone island has recently become the second e.u. country to be bailed out by the e.c.b. and the international monetary fund to receive the eighty five billion here a bailout the irish government had to resort to severe austerity plans include incur tale in the minimum wage and cutting public service jobs the plans lead to mass protests with thousands of people taking to the streets of dublin there are fears that until the third largest year reserve an economy might start pointing in the same direction as greece and ireland rome has to service billions of debts in the first quarter of next year with bond rates already raising the cost of a talent boom is likely to boom another countries threatened by the sovereign different demeanor in fact i spain portugal and belgium with so many countries or trees being pulle

with such positive dynamics no wonder french finance minister christine lagarde was named one of the best in the european union. thank you very much for being with us on the show and welcome to moscow. i know you had a chat with with finance minister could. rival to the what were the first things you talk about. problems or some nice things he told me how nice it was to see me yet again. here and they told him that i was ever so pleased to see him yet again we were you know we have a very very good and longstanding relationship this morning when i gave the talk the most of ceremony said you've been in the job for such a long time i'm not sure it's a compliment. but it has given me a chance to work a lot with the. say that is a very very good thing do you do you generally enjoy coming to moscow i love coming to moscow really even if you're even in winter this is even in winter and i love the snow and us. that. it creates a lot of problem in paris but moscow seems to be so used to the snow that it makes traffic not as complicated as in paris i can tell you well you should say thank you

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