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Thu 11 Nov 2009Government budget cuts to continue despite EU extension
THE GOVERNMENT has reiterated its plan for severe cuts in next month’s budget, despite further planned work stoppages in the public sector and a one-year extension by the European Commission in the timetable for restoring the public finances.
The one-year extension by the commission was described by a Department of Finance spokesman as “not in any way an invitation to ease off on necessary and urgent” budgetary adjustments.
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