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European Union nations planned to sign off
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a a proposed euro85 billion ($113 billion) emergency loan for Ireland
on Sunday in hope of preventing the bloc's financial crisis from driving
Spain and Portugal into an international bailout, officials said.
"Today we will conclude about
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and we will organise the best solution for the eurozone," Belgian
Finance Minister Didier Reynders said as he arrived at a hastily called
meeting in Brussels.
The finance ministers at the meeting were poring over a series of
documents spelling out proposed terms and conditions for loans from
across the globe, but chiefly from debt-burdened Ireland's European
partners.
With the euro tumbling and interest rates on bonds from
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and Spain soaring over the past week despite the promised loan to
Dublin, finance ministers were also scrambling to stabilize the
16-nation eurozone.
"It's not only about aid for Ireland, but together with Ireland about
the stability of the common currency," said Austrian Finance Minister
Josef Proell.
Britain's treasury chief said his country could provide both a bilateral
and an EU-organized loan to Ireland, and the EU's 27 financial chiefs
wanted to sign off Sunday on "the details of the whole package."
"Obviously we've all come here on
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Sunday in order to get some stability. It's absolutely in Britain's
national interest that we sort out Ireland," George Osborne told
reporters before entering the Brussels conference.
When asked about the total amount of a proposed bilateral loan and
Britain's contribution to a wider bailout fund, Osborne said, "That's
precisely what we're going to discuss today, the details of the Irish
package."
The European Central Bank forced Ireland into accepting a bailout this
month as it became clear that several state-backed banks in Dublin were
struggling to raise funds and were instead relying on
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billion in short-term loans supplied or approved by the Frankfurt bank.
The finance ministers meeting was preceded by a flurry of telephone
cponversations involving senior EU officials, including Herman Van
Rompuy, the EU president, the president of the European Central Bank
Jean-Claude Trichet as well as Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, the
German and French leaders respectively.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said she thought the deal for
Ireland was almost complete, but that there was likely to be some
discussion about the interest rate the Irish will have to pay on the
loan.
Irish officials have disputed reports that at least part of the
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bailout would come with an interest rate of 6.7 percent. They have said
it will be nearer the 5.2 percent average being paid by Greece for its
euro110 billion ($150 billion) EU-IMF bailout in May.
Ministers were under pressure to sign off an a deal before markets open
Monday. In the mix were bilateral loan offers from Britain, Sweden and
Denmark, which are not members of the euro currency but have major
business interests in Ireland.
Aides to Irish Finance
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Brian Lenihan said he was still en route to the EU capital because of
delays caused by heavy snowfall in Dublin.
"We're nearly there, we've made great progress in the talks in Dublin in
recent weeks, but there can't be an agreement until it's signed off and
approved at political level," said an Irish government official,
speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk
on the record about this month's Dublin negotiations.
Most Irish people and many economists say the emerging loan package
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include requirements that foreign banks that loaned hundreds of
billions to Irish banks should share the cost of the Irish bailout.
But until now, the
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government and European Commission have been unanimous in ruling out
any partial defaults on Irish bank debts, arguing this would cause
unpredictable shockwaves in global banking. The major lenders to
Ireland's debt-crippled banks are from Britain, Germany and the United
States.
European chiefs have expressed hopes that an Irish financial rescue,
regardless of its terms, will restore faith in the ability of the
16-nation eurozone to prevent defaults among its members. They face
challenges from global investors, who have been dumping the bonds and
bills of several eurozone members -- chiefly Greece, Ireland, Portugal
and Spain -- in the belief that all are on course for eventual
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or more bailouts.
"We are working toward a solution and I hope that as of tomorrow the
financial markets will be reassured that the euro is a currency with a
stable future," said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
Ireland was long the EU's economic star, but the Celtic Tiger suffered a
spectacular fall in 2008 when its construction-dependent growth amid a
global credit crisis and burst property bubble.
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has nearly tripled to 13.6 percent, second only to Spain in Europe, and
tax revenues have plummeted.
Those offering bailout funds expect Ireland to take drastic action to
reduce its Europe-leading deficit. The Irish government this year is
spending more than euro50 billion but expected to collect just euro31
billion, while exceptional costs from a euro45 billion bank-bailout
program have inflated Ireland's deficit to 32 percent of GDP, a post-war
European record.
To combat this, Ireland has already imposed three emergency
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and plans to unveil a fourth Dec. 7 that would cut euro4.5 billion in
spending and raise euro1.5 billion in new taxes. Prime Minister Brian
Cowen has only a two-vote majority in parliament and faces a series of
tough votes that, if he loses one, could force the government to
collapse.
On Saturday, more than 15,000 people marched in Dublin to denounce the
imminent bailout as likely to give Ireland, a nation of 4.5 million, a
bill it can never repay.