Sentences with phrase «austerity measures as»

George Osborne is to introduce yet more austerity measures as he sticks to his failed economic strategy, but has he costed this tax cut into his budget plans for 2016/17?

But with the fall in prices, they have had to announce austerity measures as a budget deficit worsens.

The markets generally have continued to stabilize after the Greeks appear to have backtracked in their willingness to accept certain austerity measures as a condition of further financial assistance and the measures that the Chinese government instituted to bolster her failing equity markets appear to have worked for the moment.

Not exact matches

Syriza, which broke a two - party - led system, has disappointed some on the left for implementing austerity measures and the reputation of the mainstream parties remains damaged following what is perceived as years of failed promises.

Huge protests against austerity measures engulfed Madrid recently as angry voters displayed their discontent in the streets.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reforms have sparked youth riots, violent strikes and fuel blockages that threatened to hobble the national economy, and austerity measures in countries such as Greece, Italy and Ireland have had similar results.

The economist - who once described the austerity imposed by Greece's creditors as «fiscal waterboarding» - said his new MeRA25 party would revive the economy through debt restructuring and other measures.

He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part of the austerity measures put in place by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion budget deficit.

The austerity measures on the table include raising the retirement age to 66 from 65 by 2020; slashing university funding by as much as 40 %; and clawing back one - fifth of funding to police.

Greek ferry, bus and train services were disrupted and civil servants and doctors stopped work in nationwide walkout on Wednesday, as lawmakers debated austerity measures that lenders want the indebted country to implement.

Protests in Greece have already turned deadly, and public discontent is expected to increase as unemployment (above 16 %) continues to rise thanks to unpopular austerity measures.

But, as Jacob Kierkegaard of the Peterson Institute writes in «The ECB: Using a Crisis to Maximize Leverage,» the ECB wants peripheral members of the EU to first convincingly demonstrate they are undertaking the austerity measures needed to put their fiscal houses in order.

Thousands of Puerto Ricans are marching to protest pension cuts, school closures and slow hurricane recovery efforts as anger grows across the U.S. territory over looming austerity measures.

Runaway government spending certainly isn't the path to prosperity, but, as the Greeks would surely tell their Mediterranean brethren, neither are brutal fiscal austerity measures.

I mean, literally not only have they, as a population, been cut to no social safety net, no social security, yet the Syriza government keeps getting supported, elected in referendums, and they seem to be able to maintain power in spite of these austerity measures.

Puerto Rico's most - recent audited financial statements are almost four years old, casting doubt over just how broke the bankrupt island is as creditors fight over its cash and residents protest proposed austerity measures in the streets.

«Seeing the Eurosceptics» dream come true must have triggered a reaction in people who usually criticise the EU and blame it for decisions such as austerity measures.

Greek state hospital services faced disruptions Wednesday as staff held work stoppages and protests over government austerity measures and pay delays.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

After recalling Tsipras coming to power as an unrepentant demagogue whose high - wire negotiations in 2015 cost Greece «100 billion euros» (in extra austerity measures), the opposition accuses him of «belatedly discovering investments» that he fought against.

Italian consumer confidence tumbled to its lowest level since 1996 in June, as residents in the euro zone's third - largest economy fretted about their future in the wake of tax increases and austerity measures.

This is what will ultimately be needed for the Greek economy to start going again as there is widespread consensus that the country will not be able to pay off its debts, no matter how hard the austerity measures.

Group chairman Paul Rayner used the firm's annual general meeting to warn that demand for its wines in China was «softening, as a result of the leadership change and well - documented government austerity measures».

This has been chosen because of the January austerity measures imposed on our stomachs — it contains only a small amount of fat and sugar using pears as a partial substitute.

The China downturn also contributed a damaging profit downgrade from Treasury Wine Estates as austerity measures imposed on government officials by President Xi Jinping dampened shopping.

Exports to China slipped by 7.6 per cent to $ 223 million as a combination of austerity measures imposed by the Chinese government to limit spending by government officials and organisations on luxury products, and a higher dollar, hit sales.

David Cameron is issuing a plea to workers not to strike today, as riots in Greece demonstrate the extent of the opposition to austerity measures in Europe.

Hammond had to contend, personally, with the National Insurance U-turn fiasco fresh in everyone's mind from his spring statement as well as, politically, with calls from the Brexiter faction within his own party for a more positive vision, and demands from the more centrist Tories and the Opposition to relax austerity measures.

Yet, as we warned in November, his austerity measures are catastrophically failing these services and the women they support.

«In what many saw as a good result for the governing party pushing through austerity measures, they managed to make small net gains and win control of some councils.

The UK government remains committed to austerity measures such as the cap on public sector pay; but in a speech on 20 June 2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond acknowledged public discontent with austerity, and suggested the government would consider increased borrowing to invest in economic growth.

Ending what has been a tumultuous six - month long negotiation process, last week the Greek Parliament approved the first package of austerity measures required by Greece's creditors as part of the «Greekment» reached in the early morning hours of 13 July 2015 in order to initiate talks on a Third Fiscal Adjustment Programme (or «Memorandum») and avoid Greece's expulsion from the Eurozone.

The Labour leader, struggling with poor personal poll ratings, will be responding to a major report by the IPPR setting out as many as 30 radical measures to rebuild public faith in politics and public institutions in an era of austerity.

It should be noted that the austerity measures she justifies are not intended to contain budget deficit (as in Greece) but to reduce the growth of the prices via reduction of the demand, that is, by making the population poor intentionally.

«We consider the austerity measures being pushed by President Obama and Congress to be as illegitimate as the war the President has started in Libya.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «The NASUWT warned at the outset when the Pupil Premium was first introduced that, in the context of the Coalition's savage austerity measures and its failure to protect school budgets despite its claims to the contrary, this funding would inevitably end up being absorbed into school budgets as the cuts bit.

That's been viewed by some as a swipe at the New Labour administrations that were in power before 2010 as well as the later Conservative led governments that imposed austerity measures.

Clamour over the eurozone sovereign debt crisis showed no sign of abating on Friday as Italy prepares to pass new austerity measures to prevent a Greece - style bailout.

The austerity measures in the eurozone's third - largest economy come as France seeks to capitalise on the redrawing of European power - relations with a new intra-EU bloc that would effectively create a two - tier union.

Lib Dem former chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, one of the highest - profile casualties of the general election, urged the winner not to take the party left and oppose austerity measures such as tax credit curbs.

Unfortunately, as we undertook the painful austerity measures I have described, all we heard from the leadership of our State's public employee unions was alarmist rhetoric, intransigence and excuses.

Social unrest has reached fever point in Athens as anti-government protesters take their struggle against austerity measures to the streets.

The 2013 budget also continues several austerity measures, including freezes in pay increases for county employees as Niagara County's government continues to chart a conservative budgeting course during a period of declining state aid and increases in unfunded state mandates.

The findings suggest the Coalition — which has a Commons majority of 84 — could be vulnerable to defeat as the Government becomes more unpopular and the austerity measures hit home.

The coalition government faces the first industrial uprising against its austerity measures today as up to 750,000 public servants strike over planned changes to their pensions.

He said, among other things that the minister was busy introducing austerity measures and gradually immiserating Nigerians while hemorrhaging public finance as 30 trillion naira was missing or mismanaged during her tenure.

Government to be asked how it has ensured austerity measures have not affected marginalised people in Britain as part of routine checkup

However, the health and social care sector have experienced challenges in recent years as a result of austerity measures in the public sector which has had implications for the pay and pensions of those working in the sector.

When one considers films tagged as queer, one probably first thinks of provocations: perhaps the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Germany in the 1970s; or the aesthetic austerity measures imposed by Derek Jarman in England throughout the 1970s and»80s; or the quiet emergence of the New Queer Cinema movement in the U.S. in the»80s and its explosive continuation into the»90s, when filmmakers like Gregg Araki and Todd Haynes and Kimberly Peirce and Rose Troche were taking no prisoners.

As austerity measures have rolled out in recent years, numbers of support works have declined, class sizes have increased further, all of which seems to cause the perfect storm of poor teacher retention and the concomitant low teacher recruitment.