Budget 2015: The end of austerity?

Next week is budget week across Europe, and Ireland is among the weaker EU countries set to loosen its purse strings in 2015 to provide relief to a population that has been through years of fiscal austerity, financial crisis and economic recession.

This will be Ireland’s first non-austerity budget in seven years, with budgets since 2007 siphoning a total of around €30 billion out of the economy. The government promises to meet the ...