Sentences with phrase «deficit reduction target»

Despite the stagnant growth of the economy, France will meet budget deficit reduction targets.

The dynamic here was that Corbyn projected «hope» because his programme was not constrained by conventional electoral calculation; Labour's prospectus offered a different vision of society after nearly a decade of spending cuts, tax rises, and missed deficit reduction targets.

The law was replaced in 1990 with specific deficit reduction targets (and pay - as - you - go rules) unrelated to actual size of the deficit, as it varied with economic conditions.

Common and Poor's has named the Government's deficit reduction targets into query, and suggested that Chancellor George Osborne will need to have to increase taxes in buy to continue to be on track Photograph: EPA The Authorities will have to raise taxes if it is to strike its deficit...

Greece's economy will remain in recession next year, causing it to miss its original deficit reduction targets, figures in the draft budget for 2012 showed Monday.

* Why has the Government failed to meet it's deficit reduction targets throughout the parliament & why is the economy not generating jobs - even after all these cuts - in which case Labour will take office because Cons will lose the economic competency test.

Meanwhile, Standard & Poor's, which last week downgraded Spain's sovereign rating by two notches, said the country is «very unlikely» to meet its budget deficit reduction targets.

George Osborne is at least # 30 billion short of his deficit reduction target.

Osborne's cuts choked off the recovery that was underway in 2010, as Balls and others had predicted, and growth only resumed when the chancellor retreated from his deficit reduction target in 2012.

David Cameron and George Osborne have hailed their austerity plan after the former chancellor's deficit reduction target was finally met.

It now looks very likely that later this year the chancellor will be forced to stand before the nation and admit that he will miss his deficit reduction target.

The current government has already abandoned the deficit reduction targets it was elected on in 2015 - just as the previous government abandoned, in 2012, the deficit reduction targets it set itself in 2010.