Euro slump and corporate taxes drive Coalition’s re-election plan

If the Coalition were to secure a second term following the looming general election, it would achieve what other centre-right dominated administrations on the troubled eurozone periphery have failed to do.

Spain and Portugal also needed to tap international aid during the crisis, and their governing parties sat with Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael as members of the European People’s Party.

However, EPP leaders of countries hit hard by the debt crisis and which emerged from their versions of bailout programmes have, in recent elections, either fallen short or lost out altogether.