Ireland still Europe's fastest growing economy: European Commission

Growth will slow to 3.5 per cent by 2015, EC forecast says

Pierre Moscovici,Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pic:Getty

Irish economic growth will moderate in 2017 to 3.5 per cent but it’s still on course to remain the fastest growing economy in the Eurozone.

According to the European Commission's Winter 2016 Economic Forecast, Ireland's economy will grow by 4.5 per cent this year.

The Commission said that gross government debt will drop to 98.4 per cent of gross domestic product in 2016 and that it will fall to 91.5 per cent of ...