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Up All Night: 28/06/2012

28/06/2012

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 28/06/2012

Discussion of 'that' handshake and a preview of the eurozone summit.

Andy Crane is in for Rhod Sharp and looks at the significance of the handshake between the Queen and Martin McGuinness. Plus can the eurozone summit put us on the road to recovery?

What can we expect from the Eurozone summit over the next couple of days? Andy Crane sits in for Rhod Sharp and asks Jacques Reland, Professor of Geopolitics at Rennes Business School, about the relationship between Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel and the different directions they seem to want to take on austerity versus stimulus. We also hear from Mark Grant, CEO of Southwest Securities and author of "Out of the box and onto Wall Street" He predicted Greece's current problems two years ago and says Spain's also in deep deep trouble.
We ask Irish commentator Eamonn Mallie for his take on the significance of the handshake between the Queen and Martin McGuinness.
We examine the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's call to reduce the birthrate there. 
Barclays Bank's been fined almost three hundred million pounds for irregularities in the way their traders manipulated the LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) We ask why the investigation into the practice started in America and not by the UK's Financial Services Authority.
We find out about Stockton, the city of almost three hundred thousand people in California that's declaring itself bankrupt.
And Andy Brassell from the World Football Phone In joins us to look back at the first Euro 2012 semi-final between Spain and Portugal and ahead to Germany against Italy.

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