Budget News
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Bratislava -
Budget-squeezed EU countries will ask Brussels for a share of the billions in Irish back taxes ordered from Apple, officials said on Saturday, bringing further problems to the tech giant after the lacklustre launch of the iPhone 7.
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Varsovia -
Poland said Monday it would raise spending next year, but still keep its deficit just under an EU-wide limit of 3.0 percent of GDP, while also cutting the growth forecast for central Europe's largest economy.
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Rome -
Italy is to seek a new deal with the European Union to allow it to kickstart its stalling economy with an expansionary 2017 budget, a government minister said Saturday.
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Madrid -
Spain's acting Economy Minister Luis de Guindos on Tuesday proposed hiking corporate taxes to avoid a fine from the European Commission for repeatedly failing to bring government deficits into line.
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Brussels -
Eurozone finance ministers agreed Monday to officially declare Spain and Portugal in breach of the EU public spending rules, a key step to possibly imposing unprecedented penalties against members of the currency bloc.
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Paris -
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Monday that Portugal does not deserve European Union penalties for government budgetary overruns."Portugal has made enormous efforts in the past years.
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London -
A vote to leave the European Union in a referendum next week would trigger tax hikes and spending cuts, Britain's finance minister warned Wednesday, after stock markets sank on the apparently rising prospect of Brexit.
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Barcelona -
The pro-independence coalition ruling Spain's Catalonia broke down Wednesday after its most radical component refused to back the government budget, forcing the regional president to call a parliamentary vote of no confidence.
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Washington -
The US Senate voted to advance $1.1 billion in emergency funds to fight the Zika virus, setting the stage for a battle with House Republicans who want $622 million for the mosquito-borne disease.
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Rome -
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday claimed victory in his budget battle with Brussels after the EU granted Rome "unprecedented" leeway on the application of deficit rules for 2016.
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Rome -
Italy's health minister is proposing doubling a 'baby bonus' incentive for couples to have more children to combat what she calls a catastrophic decline in the country's birth rate.
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Canberra -
Smokers in Australia could pay approximately Aus$40 (US$30) for a pack of cigarettes from 2020, under revenue-boosting budget measures announced Tuesday.The cost of cigarettes will rise 12.
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Canberra -
Smokers in Australia could pay approximately Aus$40 (US$30) for a pack of cigarettes from 2020, under revenue-boosting budget measures announced Tuesday.The cost of cigarettes will rise 12.
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Canberra -
Smokers in Australia could pay approximately Aus$40 (US$30) for a pack of cigarettes from 2020, under revenue-boosting budget measures announced Tuesday.The cost of cigarettes will rise 12.
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New Jersey has to rethink its budget because one guy moved to Florida. The guy who moved is David Tepper, a billionaire.
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Paris -
World leaders, stars of the pitch and screen and dozens of billionaires were among those named and shamed in what looks to be the biggest ever leak of inside information in history.
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Paris -
World leaders, stars of the pitch and screen and dozens of billionaires were among those named and shamed in what looks to be the biggest ever leak of inside information in history.
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New Delhi -
India on Thursday said it will roll out wifi to hundreds of stations, install 17,000 hi-tech toilets on trains and professionalise its unskilled porters, or "coolies" under a drive to modernise its creaking railways.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Rio state officials have insisted that the city's metro system -- crucial to moving huge crowds during the Olympics this August -- willbe done on time, after its mayor voiced doubts."We are working carefully and on schedule.
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Lisbon -
The Portuguese cabinet on Thursday adopted its 2016 draft budget without waiting for EU Commission approval, a government spokesman said.
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Frankfurt -
Germany's top priority at the moment is taking in and integrating the huge influx of refugees, but that will require a very strict handling of the country's public finances, finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in a newspaper interview Thursday.
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Washington -
US forces have fired so many smart bombs at Islamic State targets that stocks of the sophisticated weapons are dwindling, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday as he previewed the Pentagon's enormous budget.
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Moscow -
Russia will cut its spending by 10 percent this year, the finance minister said Wednesday, as prices for Moscow's key export commodity slumped to new lows."We have agreed that ministries and (government) agencies...
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Riyadh -
Long accustomed to cheap utilities and some of the lowest petrol prices in the world, Saudis woke to a shock Tuesday as authorities made massive subsidy cuts after falling oil prices caused a record deficit.
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Berlin -
Germany's federal states plan to spend about 17 billion euros in 2016 for the country's record refugee influx, said a newspaper survey Tuesday of their finance ministries.
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Kiev -
The Ukrainian parliament on Friday adopted a budget for 2016 with a deficit of 3 percent of GDP, crucial for unlocking much needed aid from the IMF and Western countries.
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Rio De Janeiro -
The governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has declared a health sector emergency after public hospitals began limiting services due to funding shortfalls amid wider state budget woes.
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Toukyo -
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet on Thursday approved Japan's biggest ever annual defence budget, as the country bolsters its military amid territorial rows and concerns over China's expanding naval reach.The cabinet approved 5.05 trillion yen ($41....
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Riyadh -
Saudi King Salman on Wednesday said he has ordered economic reforms to diversify sources of income and reduce high dependence on oil following a sharp drop in crude prices.
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Washington -
China, India and Russia will soon speak with a louder voice at the International Monetary Fund.
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Cascade Complex, Idaho, 2007.
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Fiscal Year 2009 U.S. Federal Spending – Cash or Budget Basis wikipedia
Pie chart showing breakdown of expenditures for 2010 federal budget. Notice Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending amount to 46 percent of total spending. Amapha
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CBO 2010 Federal Budget. Notice that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid amount to 43 percent of total expenditures for FY 2010. Amapha
The Indiana House of Representatives. Associated Press
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the budget negotiations, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Sept. 30, 2013. White House photo
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