Countries that have suffered a terrible loss of human life and incurred crippling debt in the struggle against Covid-19 may question the value of the EU if they are made to carry the burden of that debt themselves

Covid-19 presents us with the chance to rebuild an Ireland with enhanced quality of life and better public infrastructure at its core

The bestselling economist is in lockdown in Paris while his new 1,100-page book, Capital and Ideology, has just been published. Recently, he and 400 other academics signed a letter arguing that Europe’s Covid-19 crisis needed a Europe-wide financial response: the Eurobond

Economic output could fall by as much as 15% if Covid-19 lockdown continues past the summer, quarterly bulletin says

The government here will have to spend more cash to shore up our economy in this crisis, but all countries need to access the fiscal firepower of the eurozone to avoid collapse

Substantial emergency measures have been put in place to try to preserve jobs and businesses over the duration of the crisis and while they were widely welcomed, some business groups and associations are concerned at their potential implications

The ‘frugal’ nations, such as Germany, want to nationalise the cost of the war on the pandemic, forcing individual states to take on massive debt. Nine countries, including Ireland, want the creation of a ‘coronabond’ so the EU as a whole can shoulder the cost of the emergency. Who will prevail?

Think-tank estimates that the Irish economy could shrink by up to 7% this year, with unemployment rising to 18%

As commercial landlords look to tenants’ ability to meet rents and real estate advisers measure the longer-term impact on investment, how will the debt markets and financing be affected by Covid-19?

Employment gains of past five years could be wiped out in three months by Covid-19, warns Neil Gibson of EY

To prevent the economic impact of Covid-19 from becoming a permanent problem, the government must act decisively now to support both businesses and workers

A eurozone-wide social insurance scheme is what’s needed to stave off social disaster as a result of Covid-19

Former governor of the Irish Central Bank says ‘helicopter money’ support could help and recommends collective action from Europe to avoid instability

Economists are uncertain about how deep the financial impact of the coronavirus will be

Our economic model is based on the idea that the future can be predicted by looking at the past but, as the coronavirus has shown, uncertainty should be built into policy

The huge drop, equivalent to the entire annual output of India’s economy, conveys the widespread fear that the coronavirus could wreak havoc on an already shaky global economy

Statement comes in wake of Tory minister Michael Gove declaring that Britain would not ‘trade away’ sovereignty

Large foreign companies are the nation’s main drivers of growth but more needs to be done to improve productivity of Irish firms and make the economy more resilient, the organisation’s chief economist says

Director of economics calls for public policy to ‘underpin stability by dampening potential volatility’

It’s not all high-flying IT and finance professionals – 60 per cent of workers in Ireland earn less than €30,000 a year and income and social class are a big influence on how people cast their ballot