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There was more help on the way for Ireland on the 14 th of September 2011. The European commission made a public announcement that the interest rates of Ireland’s %u20AC22.5 billion debt to an incredibly low 2.59 per cent. According to a report by euro plus monitor, Ireland is doing well in dealing the crunch that it had found itself in a few years ago. It is projected that Ireland will be able to support itself entirely by mid 2012.the CEBR, Ireland will get out of the rut it has been stuck in using the recovery that was export led. Owing to this great improvement in the economy of Ireland, the cost of government bonds are expected to drop down to a further 4 per cent in the year 2015. A report published in January 2011 in Portugal showed that between 1974 and 2010 the Portuguese government ad encouraged a lot of overspending and bubbles of investment. This was through partnerships that remained unclear and also by funding very many unnecessary and inconsequential committees and firms for consultations. There was a grand mismanagement of funds for nearly four decades with risky credits, creation of public debt and misuse of cohesion funds. Socrates who was then the prime minister was unable to foresee the situation in 2005 and later he was unable to salvage the situation. At this point in 2011 Portugal was almost going bankrupt. Portugal has been a victim of speculation and pressure because before this it had the highest recovery rate in the European zone which was suffering from the European debt crisis. Its growth at the time could very easily been equal to or better than that of its counterparts in Western Europe what with the entrepreneurial innovations, industrial exports and orders; it was set back by waves of speculations. A bailout of %u20AC78 billion was approved for Portugal in May 16 th 2011 by the European leaders. This made Portugal the third country to receive the emergency aid package. The first two were Greece and Ireland. The loan was planned in such a way that it would be split equally for improving financial stability, the IMF and stabilization mechanisms. The finance minister for Portugal said that the interest rate on the loan was supposed to be 5.1 % and as a part of the package deal, Portugal had to reduce the deficit in its budget down from 9.5 per cent. The actual targets were 5.9 per cent in the year 2011, in 2012 it was expected to be 4.5 per cent and just 3 per cent in 2013. This was all in an effort to alleviate the effects of the European debt crisis.