Organisation: Fiscal

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

columnists

Time to grow up over issue of ageing and the workplace

It is a long time since an Irish Taoiseach - Charlie Haughey – was able to boast about the country’s youthful population, about the fact that half of us were aged under 25.

business

Heavy workload awaits new Central Bank governor Philip Lane

racing

Fly heads Champion fieldas he seeks to make history

Our political culture is at stake if we tinker with budgetary targets

Kenny can go to Brussels or set out clear objectives for government

business

Testing advisory council’s fiscal clout

Noonan defends clean bailout exit

Finance Minister Michael Noonan brushed aside warnings from the Fiscal Advisory Council that he should have applied for a precautionary credit line from the EU’s rescue fund, the ESM.

Sat, 23 Nov, 2013

A voice of reason or talking out of turn?

It is a scene that haunts the memory, the sight of the earnest Indian executive from the IMF passing a Dublin beggar on an ice cold late November’s day in 2010, on a day of national financial surrender.

Sat, 27 Jul, 2013

Euro’s survival needs shift in strategy

Rather than the austerity prescription Germany is promoting, the euro needs policies to promote growth and ease deficit targets to avoid sustained recession, writes Laura Tyson

Thu, 07 Jun, 2012

Weak link Greece should not have joined eurozone, says ex-IMF leader

Greece should never have been accepted into the euro area and its departure would remove the weakest link, a former deputy director of the IMF, Donal Donovan, said.

Sat, 19 May, 2012

Eurozone bailout fund to be boosted to €800bn

Eurozone countries have agreed to boost their firewall against the debt crisis.

Fri, 30 Mar, 2012

Taoiseach awaiting legal advice on referendum possibility

The Government is getting legal advice on whether Ireland needs a referendum on a new European treaty as part of a plan aimed at solving the debt crisis and saving the euro.

Fri, 09 Dec, 2011