Eleições: a crise dos outros - Irlanda

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"[...]Such are the straitened circumstances of Ireland’s public finances, however, that the government is having to countenance cutting social welfare entitlements just to contain the deficit at current levels. Where several European Union countries have announced stimulus packages, Ireland has no resources to soften the impact of the recession, with the budget swinging from a small surplus in 2007 to a projected deficit equivalent to 12.2 per cent of GDP this year. [...]"