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How EU states are still trapped in their self-devised austerity hairshirt.

The Conservatives are planning to use the Budget to wrongfoot Sir Keir Starmer on borrowing in an attempt to show that, under Labour, Britain would go further into debt.

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European Union finance ministers agreed on Wednesday changes to the EU's fiscal rules updating them to the post-pandemic realities of high public debt and the need for massive public investment to fight climate change. On the basis of a debt sustainability analysis, the European Commission and the country concerned agree on a path for net primary expenditure for four years, to cut the debt and deficit to below the EU's limits of 3% and 60% of gross domestic product (GDP) respectively. The four years to bring down public debt through control of government spending can be extended to...

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