DUBLIN, Nov 10 (Reuters) – The European Union is set to give Ireland a one-year extension until 2014 to reduce its budget deficit to the EU’s 3 percent of gross domestic product limit, Irish media and a governing party official said on Tuesday.
Ireland tweaks “bad bank” law to keep Green support
By Carmel Crimmins
DUBLIN, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Ireland’s government altered legislation creating its “bad bank”, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), to include the threat of a levy on lenders, to make the law more palatable to junior coalition partner the Green Party.



