Irish lawmakers offer initial OK for brutal budget
image/AP Shawn Pogatchnik Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Lawmakers narrowly approved tax hikes as part of Ireland’s most brutal budget in history, a euro6 billion…
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Euro collapse ‘possible’ amid deepening divisions over bail-out
It is feasible that the euro will not survive the current sovereign debt crisis sweeping Europe, one of the Treasury’s leading independent forecasters has said….
Ireland’s Debt Servitude
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph Stripped to its essentials, the €85bn package imposed on Ireland by the Eurogroup and the European Central Bank is a bail-out for…
Default! Say the Irish People
Irish negotiators raised defaulting but ‘Europe went completely mad’ Jody Corcoran Irish Independent A SUBSTANTIAL majority of the Irish people wants the State to default…
Iceland Better Off Than Ireland Because They Let Big Private Banks Fail, says President
Iceland Recovering Jonas Bergman and Omar R. Valdimarsson Bloomberg Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson said his country is better off than Ireland thanks to the…
Irish Pension Reserve Funds Openly Targeted by Banksters
Ann Cahill Irish Examiner UP to €15 billion from the National Pensions Reserve Fund, set aside when the Celtic Tiger was still roaring, is likely…
Debt turmoil, contagion fears sweep Europe
Illustration: Market Oracle Barry Hatton Associated Press LISBON, Portugal – Europe struggled mightily Friday to keep the debt crisis from engulfing country after country. Portugal…
‘The Euro Game Is Up! Who the hell do you think you are?’ – Nigel Farage
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Ireland Unveils Harshest Cuts, Tax Hikes In History
Attention: Looting in Progress Shawn Pogatchnik Associated Press DUBLIN — Ireland unveiled the harshest budget measures in its history Wednesday, a four-year plan to slash…
Ireland austerity plan to cost Irish households £3,000
The average Irish household will have to pay up £3,000 in extra taxes under a four year austerity plan required as the precondition for an…
EU warns Ireland over snap election
The European Union has warned the Irish government that snap elections would be “very irresponsible” as post-bail-out turmoil continues to rock Ireland’s political establishment. Bruno…
EU, IMF Bailout of Ireland Worth $32,000 per Citizen
Investment Watch Blog That’s like bailing out the entire US national debt. If this happens in all the PIIGS countries, Europe is in REALLY deep…
EU, IMF Bailout of Ireland Worth $32,000 per Citizen
Investment Watch Blog That’s like bailing out the entire US national debt. If this happens in all the PIIGS countries, Europe is in REALLY deep…
US firms pressure Ireland to tax the people, not corporations
The Irish government has been given a stark warning from some of the biggest American companies in Ireland on the risk of a mass exodus…