ESM

Measure would come on top of other multi-billion rescue packages

ESM notes ‘sustained’ Irish economic recovery

Paris set for battle over failure to meet deficit targets set by European Commission

Economics spokesman for Merkel’s party says ESM is ‘only for an emergency’

Senior German politicians dismiss hopes that bailout funds will recapitalise Irish banks

Draft Bill backing principle of ESM covering legacy debt goes to Bundestag for approval

Analysis: leaders now have to convince Bundestag backbenchers to back package

Jeroen Dijsselbloem says tapping ESM fund for Bank of Ireland and AIB ‘politically difficult’

Budgetary watchdog says the Government has no scope for cuts in taxation in upcoming October

Minister for Finance rules out any link between corporate tax rate and debt relief

Engineering company aims to use to cash to buy rivals

ESM and Nasdaq OMX target tech firms with access to funding in the US and Ireland

Pproposals circulating in Berlin do not foresee any element of retrospective recapitalisation

Germany, Finland and the Netherlands oppose use of fund for ‘legacy assets’