Here’s a useful paper from the Department of Finance summarising the fiscal response to date to the pandemic: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/84a0c-taking-stock-the-fiscal-response-to-covid-19/
There’s lots of interesting material in it. One such piece is this comparison of deficits for 2020 and 2021 in the euro area.
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