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Thu 12 Dec 2010Budget the work of Coalition, says Rehn
EUROPEAN REACTION:THE EUROPEAN Commission dismissed Fine Gael claims that the Budget was the work of a “puppet Government” as it declared the measures unveiled by Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan to be in line with the terms of the EU-IMF bailout deal.
As the IMF welcomed the €6 billion package of cuts and tax increases, the commission rejected the assertion of Fine Gael finance spokesman Michael Noonan that the Government was merely doing in the Budget what it was told to do by its international benefactors.
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