EU should follow Irish lead

Taoiseach Enda Kenny compared Ireland’s turning around of its economy with what was needed in the EU generally, but said the country had some way to go to secure lasting growth and job creation.

In a speech in Berlin that sounded like a job application for the post of EU Council president, he said that the EU needed to be more bold and ambitious than in the last ten years to deliver growth.

“The Union needs to take hard decisions that are hard to explain sometimes,” he told a prestigious conference of around 2,000 business and political supporters of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party.