Portgual bail-out: eurozone tectonic stress rises
Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam on the impact on the wider Eurozone of Portugal’s request for a bail-out.
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Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam on the impact on the wider Eurozone of Portugal’s request for a bail-out.
Political leaders from both sides of the Irish border attend the funeral of Catholic PC Ronan Kerr, as detectives uncover an arms haul and arrest a man in Scotland, as Carl Dinnen reports.
The numbers were already big and got bigger. People inured to millions, billions and trillions can be nonetheless horrified by a nation that needs to shove nearly half its GDP into the banks. But the Irish bank stress tests are important for what was missing. The suggested hit to the people that provided the kerosene…
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.
Portugal has been thrown into political uncertainty after prime minister Socrates’ resignation, but economists warn the upheaval has implications for the wider EU – including the UK.
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.
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Ireland’s premier Brian Cowen rules out rushing through emergency economic measures, as financial experts tell Channel 4 News that the Irish bailout could lead to more splits in the Eurozone.
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Liverpool entertain Chelsea at Anfield on Sunday in a match which could see the Reds taking a giant step closer to landing the title for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century.
When Liverpool last won the title in 1990, Margaret Thatcher was still in power, the Soviet Union was in crisis and we were still wearing neon colours. What else has changed?