Sentence examples for deficit to meet from inspiring English sources

In Portugal, the government is struggling to narrow its deficit to meet the terms of its international bailout.

The authorities now struggle with a $3 billion energy deficit to meet domestic demand for oil and natural gas, according to Esteban Fernández Medrano, an independent economist.

Mr. Cavallo hopes to shave $3 billion from a widening budget deficit to meet International Monetary Fund targets set late last year.

Germany itself will face critical choices: if you're suddenly running a budget deficit to meet the needs of asylum seekers, how do you justify not spending on the infrastructure that's supposed to serve German citizens, which has crumbled through underinvestment in the Angela Merkel era?

The government's in a catch-22 that it has to stimulate the economy to grow out of recession, and at the same time, it has to cut its deficit to meet its E.U. requirements.

The EU's new members are cutting their budget deficits to meet its supposed standard of fiscal virtue.

Mr. Lucey said that the government now had to steer a course between cutting its deficits to meet its European Union obligations and doing enough to impress the international debt markets, because the country will need to borrow many more billions of euros before the crisis is over.

The resulting unemployment explains why Germany is having such trouble reducing its public sector budget deficit sufficiently to meet the 3% deficit target for European monetary union in the Maastricht Treaty.

The company has also come up with a plan to pay £270m a year to try to reduce this UK deficit and to meet the expenses of the scheme.

Eleven countries, having slimmed their budget deficits enough to meet the requirements for joining Europe's new single currency, the euro, plan to hand responsibility for monetary policy to the European Central Bank (ECB) in less than ten months' time.But although Europe's economies are growing, they are still not growing in unison.

We saw the usual spectacle of the chancellor admitting he has failed with his deficit target, failed to meet his debt target and failed to grow the economy.