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ATHENS -- The Greek government rushed Wednesday to complete a spate of new laws and measures before a European Union summit meeting, where its progress in imposing more austerity in [...]

Byline: Mary Helen Miller If there's one thing that's lacking in the debt deal that president signed on Aug. 2, it's specifics. It asks for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts [...]

Byline: TABATHA SOUTHEY TART tsouthey@globeandmail.com The thing to consider about nations, when discussing their budgets, is that nations don't die. Nations change hands, or divide sometimes, but a nation isn't [...]

A president's budget is only as good as the debate that it engenders. After all, Congress doesn't even have to vote on it, and it rarely does. Measured by this [...]

Last week, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) ended weeks of budget speculation and caterwauling in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee. He not only committed to cutting $100 billion [...]

Byline: Richard Wolf and Mimi Hall WASHINGTON -- President Obama will send Congress a 2012 budget today that would trim the budget deficit by $1.1 trillion over the next decade, [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Friday rolled out what they called historic cuts in federal spending after conservatives in the party's new majority demanded that the leadership follow through on [...]

BRUSSELS -- Difficult talks to reach an agreement on a European Union budget in 2011 were reaching the endgame on Monday as diplomats sought to resolve a tense standoff between [...]

THE clamor to cut the budget deficit is deafening. Blue Dog Democrats, Tea Party Republicans and doomsday economists are calling for immediate action. And the demands for austerity coming from [...]

Spain's government approved a budget for 2011 that included a tax increase on wealthier citizens. The budget aims for an overall decrease in spending of 7.9%, with a 5.4% rise in revenue. The government revised its 2009 budget deficit calculation from 11.2% of gross domestic product to 11.1%.

Recently, President Obama joined many of his predecessors in submitting legislation to the Congress which would grant the president with an expedited rescission authority. The legislation, the 'Reduce Unnecessary Spending [...]

NEW DELHI -- As Mamata Banerjee presented the Indian Railways budget to Parliament this year, opposition politicians howled in protest whenever a new project she listed was in her home [...]

Byline: ERIC REGULY GLOBAL ECONOMY / DEBT CRISIS ROME -- Severe austerity programs are being rolled out across the European Union as lavish spenders, under pressure from their new paymasters [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron met with his coalition cabinet for the first time on Thursday, as the euphoria over the new partnership between the Conservatives and [...]

I want to thank Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas for addressing the desperate need to start cutting government in Thursday's edition of The Forum ('6 places to start cutting government,' [...]

Byline: JOHN IBBITSON FEDERAL POLITICS OTTAWA -- jibbitson@globeandmail.com The week ends with a question: Can anyone, finally, tells us what prorogation was all about? The release of the federal budget [...]

Byline: KELLY GRANT AND ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY FEDERAL BUDGET 2020 / CITY OF TORONTO / NO RELIEF Beset by its own financial troubles, the City of Toronto found no relief [...]

Byline: KEVIN CARMICHAEL FEDERAL BUDGET 2010 / THE ROAD AHEAD OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Jim Flaherty finally has his exit strategy. Now all he needs is an uninterrupted global recovery. [...]

Byline: GLORIA GALLOWAY AND ELIZABETH CHURCH FEDERAL BUDGET 2010 / RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OTTAWA and TORONTO -- The federal government plans to boost Canadian productivity by increasing investments in scientific [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK FEDERAL BUDGET 2010 OTTAWA -- The mission in Afghanistan earned the Canadian Forces a two-year reprieve from a budget freeze, while deep Tory attachment to the military [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY AND STEVEN CHASE THE ROAD TO THE BUDGET OTTAWA -- The Harper government's Throne Speech and budget this week will try to shift the spotlight away from [...]

DIMITRIS DAMIANIDIS is a high school teacher and a strong supporter of Greece's socialist government. But that won't deter him from going on strike with hundreds of thousands of other [...]

Budget consultation The federal government's pre-budget consultations allow Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to get meaningful input from the public on the country's most pressing economic and fiscal [...]

Dealing another blow to the fledgling government, the Japanese finance minister resigned Wednesday, leaving Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to appoint a successor with little fiscal experience to grapple with financing [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY FEDERAL POLITICS / THE ECONOMY OTTAWA -- The Harper government is warning that tough decisions lie ahead as its attention shifts to phasing out the stimulus and [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE FISCAL REPORT OTTAWA -- Ottawa's budget watchdog warns the federal government's deficit hole will be much harder to climb out of than originally thought, predicting that even [...]

Byline: ANNE McILROY GENETIC RESEARCH Ontario funding keeps Canada in stem-cell project SCIENCE REPORTER The province of Ontario has pitched in enough cash to allow Canada to remain part of [...]

Byline: JEFFREY SIMPSON Deepening wells of red ink, ominous possibilities CALGARY -- jsimpson@globeandmail.com Throw out the old predictions. Every Canadian government is going deeper and deeper into the red, from [...]

Byline: Bloomberg News IN BRIEF U.K. budget adds scrappage subsidy U.K. consumers will get subsidies of as much as £2,000 pounds ($3,590) to trade in old cars for new models [...]

Byline: NEIL REYNOLDS ECONOMY Easy money and the loss of character OTTAWA -- reynolds.globe@gmail.com Does character matter? We are obliged to say yes. Character must matter. But where does character [...]

Byline: DANIEL LEBLANC POLITICS: RESEARCH GRANTS Minister red-faced over observatory cuts OTTAWA -- Public Works Minister Christian Paradis was caught flat-footed when a federal funding body eliminated a $325,000 grant [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA -- The outspoken watchdog created by the Harper government to ensure 'truth in budgeting' and economic forecasting issued a public plea for help yesterday, asking the [...]

Byline: MURRAY CAMPBELL It's awfully nice of Stephen Harper to be so optimistic about the state of the Canadian economy, but that's not the way it seems on the ground [...]

Byline: CAROLYN ABRAHAM AND JOSH WINGROVE Canada's leading medical journal is urging scientists and doctors to push Ottawa to improve funding for research, calling the recent federal budget 'short-sighted' and [...]

Byline: BRIAN LAGHI; OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams eased pressure on Michael Ignatieff yesterday over the Liberal split on budget cuts to the equalization program, arguing [...]

Byline: BRIAN LAGHI; OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF Stephen Harper did his best yesterday to convince Canadians he's still a small-c conservative, promising he would take just four years to eliminate every [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK AND GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA -- Stephen Harper's government opened the new Parliament with an atypical tone of contrition, in a Throne Speech that spoke of compromise and [...]

Even with the highly unusual volume of information being selectively released by the Conservative government, it will not be possible to take proper measure of the federal budget until it [...]

Byline: MARGARET WENTE Are you feeling stimulated? I certainly am! Today's bag of budgetary goodies is guaranteed to stimulate absolutely everyone. Even artists! Forget that nasty little dig at elitist [...]

Byline: BRIAN LAGHI, STEVEN CHASE, TARA PERKINS, KEVIN CARMICHAEL OTTAWA, TORONTO -- The Harper government will aim to get consumers spending with a federal budget today that provides tax breaks [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE; With a report from Daniel Leblanc OTTAWA -- Further departing from convention on pre-budget secrecy, the Harper government announced yesterday it will offer $1.5-billion in new training [...]

Byline: JANE TABER Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has assured his caucus colleagues that he is writing a budget that 'will pass' - this, after the miscalculation of the fiscal update, [...]

Byline: GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA -- Representatives of the federal NDP met with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty late yesterday but walked away unconvinced that his forthcoming budget would prompt them to [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON Canada's top private-sector economists have a message for Jim Flaherty as the federal Finance Minister prepares his critical recession-fighting budget: Cut taxes now, rein in spending later. [...]

Byline: SHAWN McCARTHY, GREG KEENAN AND KAREN HOWLETT; With files from reporter Tara Perkins in Toronto. OTTAWA and TORONTO -- The federal government plans to unveil measures to boost consumer [...]

Byline: SHAWN McCARTHY AND GREG KEENAN; With a report from Paul Waldie Finance Minister Jim Flaherty promised yesterday that his January budget will chart a clear course back to balanced [...]