Ireland and the European Union 1998 - 2010

Ireland and the European Union 1998 - 2010
Introduction
Ireland has been recognised as one of the fastest growing countries compared to other European Union (EU) countries in the 1980s and 1990s. With a wider and in-depth communication with the EU as well as the rest of the world, the great changes have emerged from the increasing of export, output and employment thus named Ireland as “Celtic Tiger” (O’Donnell, 1998). This assay will specify Ireland’s great changes in terms of macro-economic performance in many aspects such as foreign direct investment, the emergence of Ireland as a net contributor to EU budget and those changes influenced its role in EU as well as the attitude towards EU during 1998 and
2010.

Ireland’s Performance – Macro-Economy

The Irish economy has buoyant and the agricultural economy has been overtaken by integrated economic strategies and processes (Bukold et al.,
1996). What factors have impacted on the leaps of Irish economy? Besides the booming of Ireland, deep differences are based on influences and weights of different causes of factors. On the one hand, some argue that the internal factors which mainly contribute to the economic restructuring which include implementation of membership policies, human capital innovation and upgrading of infrastructure (Bukold et al, 1996; Room et al, 2005; Allen, 2007).
On the other hand, the claims are based on the external factors which mostly contribute to Ireland’s economic development, such as the reception of EU funds, the strong support of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the benefit from single market programme (Brennan, 2008; O’Donnell, 1998; Laffan,
2001). There is no single answer to explain such remarkable changes and

more perceptions should be raised. The complex interaction between domestic,
European, even the US and global environment are all likely influence Irish’s economy; some key points will be discussed as follows.

Consistent Implementation of

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