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Merkel shares a joke with Enda Kenny at an EU summit in June of this year. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP/Press Association Images
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Taoiseach in Germany to meet with Angela Merkel
Enda Kenny will see greater flexibility in Ireland’s EU-IMF bailout programme, it is reported.
THE TAOISEACH ENDA Kenny will be in Berlin this morning to hold talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel.
On his first official visit to Germany, Kenny will hold a working lunch with Merkel where he will outline Ireland’s economic recovery plans as well as hold talks on the eurozone crisis in general and any potential treaty changes that lie ahead.
Also on the agenda will be a meeting with Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Later he will travel to Frankfurt for an Irish-German business event this evening.
In today’s Irish Times, Derek Scally reports that Kenny will use the opportunity to make the case for greater flexibility on Ireland’s EU-IMF bailout programme.
Germany will present Ireland as an example of a country that has stuck to its targets and is economically stable despite the ongoing crisis in other eurozone countries like Greece and Italy.
RTÉ reports that the the Taoiseach will seek political support for the country’s continued hopes to reduce its debt burden as well as seek ways to enhance its return to the bond markets in 2013 as hoped.
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