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<description>Better economic data in recent weeks will not be enough to prevent the fund’s annual health check from urging George Osborne to loosen his policies</description>
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<description>When Schäuble and Moscovici met to celebrate the 25th year of the Franco-German economic and financial council, they came to praise the partnership, not bury it</description>
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<description>Economists question whether the package is compatible with government forecasts that the economy will return to growth in 2014</description>
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<description>Amid rising unemployment and a stagnating economy, Hollande’s poll ratings sinks to the lowest level in recent decades for a president at this stage of his tenure</description>
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<description>Brussels has signalled its willingness to relax austerity across the eurozone as EU forecasts showed the bloc’s recession was becoming longer and deeper</description>
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<description>President Michael Higgins called for a “radical rethink” of how EU leaders tackled the crisis and warned the union risked social upheaval unless they changed course</description>
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<description>Higgins urges ECB reform and adds that there would be no ‘glowing future’ for a bloc that allowed divisions to open up between states</description>
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<description>Government on collision course with moderate trade unions, whose support it needs for legislation to allow public sector jobs to be cut</description>
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<title>Europe May Day protests target austerity</title>
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<description>Although less boisterous than in some recent years, demonstrations across the continent demanded a reversal of economic policies based on cutbacks</description>
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<description>Lisbon is to squeeze spending well beyond the country’s planned exit from the financial aid programme but says it will not extend tough tax rises</description>
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