WELT ONLINE: Jetzt also doch: Irland wird unter den Euro-Rettungsschirm schlüpfen. Das hochverschuldete Land braucht "mehrere zehn Milliarden Euro".
Irland wird als erstes Land offiziell um Finanzhilfe aus Mitteln des Rettungsschirms der Euroländer und des Internationalen Währungsfonds bitten. Finanzminister Brian Lenihan sagte am Sonntag im irischen Sender RTE, es gehe um „mehrere zehn Milliarden Euro“, nannte jedoch keine konkrete Summe. Griechenland hatte im Mai 110 Milliarden Euro erhalten, allerdings gab es damals den 750 Milliarden Euro umfassenden Rettungsschirm noch nicht. Er werde einen entsprechenden Vorschlag noch am Sonntag im Kabinett machen, sagte Lenihan. >>> dpa/cat | Sonntag, 21. November 2010
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Irland bittet um Hilfe: „Mehrere zehn Milliarden Euro“ >>> bes./wmu. , F.A.Z. | Sonntag, 21. November 2010
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ireland Asks for Aid From Europe, Minister Says: DUBLIN — Ireland has formally applied for a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, Brian Lenihan, the country’s finance minister, said Sunday. >>> Landon Thomas Jr. | Sunday, November 21, 2010
THE NEW YORK TIMES: DUBLIN — Antoinette Shields had a plan to keep her tall, blue-eyed son, Kevin, close at hand. When she took over her boss’s construction company in 2002, she hoped to retire at 55 and give her son the business.
But it is not working out that way. Mrs. Shields’s company, which once employed 26 people, is now down to 8, still afloat in Ireland’s collapsed economy, but barely. Though Kevin graduated from college two weeks ago, she has no work for him, and he expects to emigrate to the United States or Canada next year.
“That is where we are,” Mrs. Shields said. “Sad, isn’t it?”
Just three years ago as Ireland’s economy boomed, immigrants poured in so fast that experts said this tiny country of 4.5 million was on its way to reaching population levels not seen since before the great potato famine of the mid-19th century. The conditions that prompted the Irish statesman Éamon de Valera to express the hope that Ireland’s children would no longer “like our cattle, be brought up for export” seemed like quaint history.
That has abruptly turned around. >>> Suzanne Daley | Saturday, November 20, 2010
THE TIMES: Ireland goes cap in hand to IMF >>> Sadie Gray | Sunday, November 21, 2010 | (Behind a paywall: £)
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Who killed the Celtic tiger? >>> James Ashton and Iain Dey | Sunday, November 21, 2010 | (Behind a paywall: £)
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Death of the euro >>> David Smith and Richard Woods | Sunday, November 21, 2010 | (Behind a paywall: £)
