«Eurostat expressed a reservation on the quality of the data reported by Romania, due to uncertainties on the impact of some public corporations on the government deficit,» the INS said, citing an official EU notification.
Greece will meet its target to cut its budget deficit to 7,6 percent next year and will not need to extend the repayment of a multibillion EU/IMF loan, its finance minister told a Greek newspaper published on Saturday.
10/18/2010
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: deficit, Greece, Loan Extension
Greece pledged yesterday to cut next year’s budget deficit faster than agreed to in a 110-billion euro bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, vowing another year of tough austerity to exit a debt crisis.
10/5/2010
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: budget, deficit, Greece
ROME: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday said austerity measures his government planned to pass would reduce the state deficit but without resulting in «social butchery.»
05/10/2010
— Filed under: Society
Tags: 'social butchery', deficit, Silvio Berlusconi
