Sentence examples for centralised budget from inspiring English sources

Language barriers mean little labour market flexibility, the lack of a centralised budget means no real fiscal transfers and there is a great disparity between economic performance in Greece and Germany.

The eurozone is a currency union not a federal state, which means it lacks a single finance minister calling the shots and a centralised budget like that in the US or the UK.

Birmingham is copying Manchester's centralised transport budget and its planning policies.

"This is based on the principle that better government comes from politicians being financially accountable for their decisions and that the centralised allocation of budgets provides the wrong incentives for promoting efficient public sector spending.

It has been estimated that costs associated with donor recruitment account for half of the budget of centralised transfusion services[ 17].

France and Germany were locked in their worst showdown of the three-year euro crisis on Thursday evening, split between two conflicting approaches, with Berlin leading the charge for draconian new centralised powers over national budgets and Paris spearheading a campaign for quicker and easier bailouts of struggling countries and banks.

UKIP's Jenny Jeffries, blamed "poor management" for money being lost from the council's budget and said a centralised purchasing department would save money on procuring council contracts.

Some form of centralised funding, such as a direct budget allocation by a government body, is likely to be necessary to establish the infrastructure required by the proposed system, particularly the Identifier Translation Agency and the Population Register.

Waging a kulturkampf to remove people of questionable loyalty from theatres, museums and opera houses, Fidesz reaps a double reward of engaging the opposition in yet another battle on the periphery, while ensuring that yet more budgets come under the centralised jurisdiction of the "closed circle".

Headteachers will be given responsibility for school improvement budgets in a shift away from centralised government control, the schools secretary, Ed Balls, said today.

The plan for Greece amounts to imposing centralised control under duress: accept the need to run permanent budget surpluses, change labour laws and hike VAT – or leave the euro for five years.