2 out of 3 Northern capitalists support the Euro

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday November 07, 2002 11:30 by Euro Watcher

Today the results of a survey revealed that 2 out of 3 business people from Northern Ireland support the introduction of the Euro.

As the debate about the Euro continues it was revealed that capitalists in Northern Ireland are very much behind the Euro, unlike their cohorts in the rest of the UK.

It will be interesting to see if Sinn Féin will support the Euro referendum when it is called by the Blair Government probably next year.

Sinn Féin are very much a big business party in NI, and they will be under pressure to call for a 'Yes' vote. This may expose them to many in the South where they argue against the EU on a progressive basis.

There is not much dount about the support for the Euro among the other parties in the North and it's likely that NI will do BLair a favour by boosting the 'Yes' vote.