{"id":64456,"date":"2025-10-07T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64456\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:32:09","slug":"john-downing-with-budget-2026-upon-us-heres-what-ireland-can-learn-from-the-economic-struggles-of-germany-france-and-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64456\/","title":{"rendered":"John Downing: With Budget 2026 upon us, here\u2019s what Ireland can learn from the economic struggles of Germany, France and the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Germany, France and the UK are all facing difficult decisions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759811529_972_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Budget 2026 \u2013 here\u2019s everything we know so far      <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Today, Budget 2026 will land in an Ireland blessed by a precarious and transient economic sweet spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There is a vast difference between the buoyant Irish economy and those red-inked books of our heavy-hitting neighbours, Germany, France and the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany, France and the UK are all facing difficult decisions Budget 2026 \u2013 here\u2019s everything we know so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5244,943,1814,8864,292,61,1095,60,44068,1194,43],"class_list":["post-64456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-budget-2026","tag-cost-of-living","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-ireland","tag-john-downing","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}