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Here is the European Commission’s report.

A reader recommends this briefing paper.

This blog has recurrently featured the role of fiscal devaluations inside a currency union –  a good summary of the argument is here.  (HT Desmond Brennan).  There are traces of this in the Irish case (the increase in VAT and the reduction in employer PRSI for low-paid workers) but more could be done.

The papers from today’s ESRI Renewal conference are here.

The site for the Central Bank’s SME conference on Friday is here.

By the way, details of Dublin’s Central Library Lecture Series on the Irish Crisis are here.

The report is here.