Eamon Lawlor discusses the role of the EU in the global economic system with Justin Kilcullen of Trocaire and former EU commissioner Lord Brittan on The State of Europe: Europe and The Outside World (Saturday, 9 a.m., RTE1).
The Battle For The Euro (Sunday, 7.25 p.m., BBC2) tells the story of the campaigns battling over whether to abolish sterling. On one side is the government-backed Britain In Europe campaign, on the other an alliance of pressure groups from socialist workers to right-wing businessmen.
The reality of the problem of crippling debt as seen through the experience of five Nicaraguan families is documented in Breaking The Chains: World Debt - One Country, Five Family Stories (Tuesday, 9.30 p.m., RTE1). In Ireland, the Jubilee 2000 campaign organised a protest to the Department of Finance in Dublin last summer, where it called upon leaders of the G8 developed countries to put pressure on the World Bank and the IMF to cancel crippling debts from impoverished countries. So far there has been no response.
John Coleman is chief executive of the House of Fraser Group, and runs 50 department stores across the country. Now Mr Coleman goes Back To The Floor (Wednesday, 10 p.m., BBC2) spending a week in his huge Oxford Street branch as a sales assistant.
Today hairdressing is about selling shampoos. US manufacturer Procter & Gambler owns the Sassoon name and its range of hair products. Sassoons (Friday, 12.20 p.m., Channel 4) uncovers the awkward and fraught relationship between the small salon group and the multinational.
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