“These are difficult days for Ireland,” said Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, addressing her compatriots in a speech at Dublin City University this week.
Speaking as the Irish government was negotiating a €85 billion loan, whilst simultaneously preparing spending cuts and tax increases worth €15 billion to add to €15 billion cuts made over the past two years, Geoghegan-Quinn expressed her “absolute confidence” in Ireland's ability to “build a positive future for itself.”
Here, in some highlights from the speech, Geoghegan-Quinn lays out in detail how the EU envisages its science and innovation policies helping Ireland and Europe’s other battered economies to get back on their feet.
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Author: Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
