Semper Idem, Irish national economy, politics and tradition.

 

Information on the Irish Economy from the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland

IF 2012 was the year when a sense of calm returned to euro-zone financial markets, 2013 will be when Europe needs to show that its recipe of austerity and reforms can work. Strong evidence for that would be if a bailed-out country could finance itself again. Hence the hopes invested in Ireland, which entered its rescue programme in 2010 and is scheduled to make a full return to the bond markets at the end of 2013.