Sentences with phrase «austerity cuts which»

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Spain recently revealed more austerity in its 2013 budget, which will likely have to be modified to include deeper cuts when over-optimistic macroeconomic growth assumptions don't materialize.

Five years of failed austerity policies in Greece and a total breakdown in trust between the leftwing Syriza alliance and the political leaders of its creditors climaxed in a national vote in which Greeks said no to the spending cuts and tax increases demanded by its lenders...

Low oil prices are taking a heavy toll on Saudi Arabia's economy, which is facing even greater austerity under deputy crown prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud's plans to raise $ 100 billion a year from subsidy cuts and new levies.

While one political side routinely points to massive, European - style budget cuts (known as Austerity) as the answer to our fiscal problems, others have argued that the best way to stimulate the economy is through a balanced approach which includes both cuts and revenue increases.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

The public sector in the United Kingdom is undergoing the largest budgetary cuts since the Second World War, while all over Europe governments are imposing harsh austerity measures which may radically curtail the activities of the state.

Indeed, one justice minister admitted that the cuts were made urgently and without time for research, in fundamental contradiction to what international human rights law and standards require, which is a thorough assessment of the likely impact on people and their human rights prior to the introduction of retrogressive austerity measures.

(iv) the reversal of public sector cuts and austerity programmes which are putting at risk the lives of pupils and teachers.

The Republicans are also trying to pass tax cuts, which mostly benefit the wealthy immediately, at the same time they are pushing austerity on the spending side.

This is about the richest Tory front bench in living memory pledging to introduce an «age of austerity» — involving public spending cuts and pay freezes — from which their own estates will be conveniently exempt.

On a final note: if this budget was one of such seriousness and one of austerity: one in which «we are all in this together... for the good of the nation», why exactly did the majority of Tories laugh, cheer and bay for more (cuts) when Osborne completed his statement?

Some MPs are concerned that his radical stance of facing down corporations and taking on Tory cuts will have little resonance in areas where Labour is facing a tough electoral challenge from Ukip; but asked if the party should tailor its message for different audiences, Corbyn said: «No: you've got to give fundamentally the same message, of the injustice of economic austerity, and the way in which local government is being punished».

They would face huge problems driving through more austerity measures, more deep cuts to welfare — and even their EU referendum, which for many of their own MPs is the highest priority of all.

Staff numbers have dwindled under austerity cuts, but prisoner numbers continue to skyrocket as a tough - on - crime justice secretary stuffs ever more men and women into a system which long ago reached its limit.

• The Kendall team commissioned private YouGov polling as early as late June which showed the party membership opposed austerity and further spending cuts, making the Kendall team realise they were out of the running.

They were convinced they would get a majority against a deeply unpopular government that would only be offering more cuts and more austerity which the public would reject.