Brussels, 31/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Enda Kenny, leader of Irish opposition party Fine Gael that is polled to win the general elections at the end of February 2011, and Fine Gael's finance spokesman Michael Noonan met President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso at the end of the week, explaining to Barroso that if their party wins the elections, they are planning to renegotiate the 5.8% interest rate charged on loans to Ireland as part of an international aid package granted to the country recently. Kenny acknowledged that the talks had taken place when Europe was deciding on a raft of measures to restore confidence in the stability of the eurozone, reports Irish Times. Any advantages that Ireland might be able to win, like a cut in interest rates or extended repayment deadlines or even allowing creditors to Irish banks to suffer losses, would come with strings attached in the forms of guarantees to the eurozone countries backing struggling countries. Kenny said that he liked the idea of adding new public debt limitation measures, similar to those in Germany, to the Irish constitution. Noonan said that they had pointed out that “we were aware that there was a desire in Europe to control, in law, the ability of governments so that they would not borrow recklessly again.” (M.B./transl.fl)