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Tue 01 Jan 2009Irish budget deficit could be highest in EU by 2010
IRELAND’S ECONOMY will contract faster than most EU economies this year and its budget deficit will be the highest in Europe in 2010, according to new forecasts published by the European Commission.
Brussels predicts Irish economic output will fall 5 per cent in 2009, unemployment will rise to 9.7 per cent and the deficit will reach 13 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010 in the face of the world’s worst recession since the second World War.
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