In video: Euro bailout negotiations
After the photo-call the rush to get the handshakes in first. Faisal Islam on a day of hugs and smiles in Brussels as Portugal and Ireland near economic crunch time.
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The terms and size of Portugal’s bailout is on the agenda as European finance ministers meet. Chancellor George Osborne has flown to Budapest for talks about the rescue package.
As Portugal becomes the latest EU country to ask for a bailout, George Osborne says the Government’s austerity measures are needed to prevent a similar crisis in the UK. Faisal Islam takes a look.
After the photo-call the rush to get the handshakes in first. Faisal Islam on a day of hugs and smiles in Brussels as Portugal and Ireland near economic crunch time.
A coalition government is the likely outcome of Ireland’s general election, with Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny as Taoiseach. Carl Dinnen says voters have delivered a “fracturing of the Irish body politic”.
Fianna Fáil will bear the brunt of an angry Irish electorate, but is a Fine Gael government more of the same, asks Dr Peter Stafford, an economic and political analyst based in Dublin.
The spending cuts in Ireland outlined by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan were “not a normal budget, but the environment in which it was delivered is not normal”, writes economist Dr Peter Stafford.
More than 50,000 people have taken to the streets of Dublin to protest against the spending cuts and tax increases the Irish government is planning to introduce.
The euro plunges further as the debt crisis shows signs of spreading to Portugal and Spain, even after Ireland unveiled an austerity plan while negotiations on the country’s bailout continue.
As Ireland hears the austerity measures that are part of the condition of its European bail-out, Faisal Islam blogs on the wrecked economy which sees Paddy Power become the most valuable financial institution in Ireland.
Usually, a nation which has applied for a bailout will easily pass an austere Budget. But in Ireland, it’s rather more complicated, writes Faisal Islam from Dublin.
Our Political Editor recalls the last time the Treasury got involved in a banking bailout – and wonders if there’s another reason George Osborne favours Ireland.
As Ireland negotiates terms of the multi-billion pound bailout, details of the government’s austerity measures emerge with welfare, jobs and minimum wage facing heavy cuts, writes Faisal Islam.
Chancellor George Osborne makes a statement to the Commons on the Irish bailout.
Irish TV is calling it the biggest decision ever made by an Irish government, as the country goes cap in hand to Europe and the IMF for a bail-out, writes Faisal Islam.